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ArticleeLife2016

Mapping out Min protein patterns in fully confined fluidic chambers.

Yaron Caspi, Cees Dekker

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Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yaron CaspiDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0328-0186
Cees DekkerDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bacterial Min protein system provides a major model system for studying reaction-diffusion processes in biology. Here we present the first

Indexed as

Adenosine TriphosphatasesCell Cycle ProteinsDNA NucleotidyltransferasesEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsKineticsProtein ConformationAdenosine TriphosphatasesCell Cycle ProteinsDNA NucleotidyltransferasesEscherichia coli ProteinsMinD protein, E coliMinE protein, E colimin recombinasebiophysicsE. coliin vitro reconstitutionMicrofluidicsMin systempattern formationreaction-diffusionstructural biology

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PMID27885986
PMCPMC5217063

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