Cellular organization by self-organization
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- 14 February 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 168 (4) , 533-536
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200411122
Abstract
We use the oscillating Min proteins of Escherichia coli as a prototype system to illustrate the current state and potential of modeling protein dynamics in space and time. We demonstrate how a theoretical approach has led to striking new insights into the mechanisms of self-organization in bacterial cells and indicate how these ideas may be applicable to more complex structure formation in eukaryotic cells.Keywords
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