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ArticleNature communications2020

Feedback regulation of crystal growth by buffering monomer concentration.

Samuel W Schaffter, Dominic Scalise, Terence M Murphy, Anusha Patel, Rebecca Schulman

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel W SchaffterChemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7259-7374
Dominic ScaliseChemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
Terence M MurphyOur Lady of Lourdes High School, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12603, USA.
Anusha PatelChemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
Rebecca SchulmanChemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA. rschulm3@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4555-3162
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crystallization is a ubiquitous means of self-assembly that can organize matter over length scales orders of magnitude larger than those of the monomer units. Yet crystallization is notoriously difficult to control because it is exquisitely sensitive to monomer concentration, which changes as monomers are depleted during growth. Living cells control crystallization using chemical reaction networks that offset depletion by synthesizing or activating monomers to regulate monomer concentration, stabilizing growth conditions even as depletion rates change, and thus reliably yielding desired products. Using DNA nanotubes as a model system, here we show that coupling a generic reversible bimolecular monomer buffering reaction to a crystallization process leads to reliable growth of large, uniformly sized crystals even when crystal growth rates change over time. Buffering could be applied broadly as a simple means to regulate and sustain batch crystallization and could facilitate the self-assembly of complex, hierarchical synthetic structures.

Indexed as

FeedbackBuffersComputer SimulationCrystallizationDNAFluorescenceKineticsNanotubesTime FactorsBuffersDNA

Identifiers

PMID33247122
PMCPMC7695852
OpenAlexW3110159127

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