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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Macromolecular interactions and geometrical confinement determine the 3D diffusion of ribosome-sized particles in live

Diana Valverde-Mendez, Alp M Sunol, Benjamin P Bratton, Morgan Delarue, Jennifer L Hofmann, Joseph P Sheehan, Zemer Gitai, Liam J Holt, Joshua W Shaevitz, Roseanna N Zia

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Diana Valverde-Mendez *Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0002-1350-4991
Alp M Sunol *Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-6768-4019
Benjamin P BrattonLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0003-1128-2560
Morgan DelarueLaboratory for Analysis of Architecture and Systems of the National Centre for Scientific Research, University of Toulouse, Toulouse 31400, France.
Jennifer L HofmannDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Joseph P SheehanDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.ORCID 0000-0001-9431-7110
Zemer GitaiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Liam J HoltInstitute for Systems Genetics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016.ORCID 0000-0002-4002-0861
Joshua W ShaevitzDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0001-8809-4723
Roseanna N ZiaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-2763-9811

Funding

The Physical Biology of Neurodegeneration in Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Frontotemporal DementiaR01NS127186 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HOLT, LIAM J, PHATNANI, HEMALI · 2021 to 2025
$8.2M
Cancer under pressure: Mechanisms of adaptation to compressive stressR37CA240765 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HOLT, LIAM J · 2019 to 2025
$3.2M
Tools to probe the biophysical properties of cellsR01GM132447 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HOLT, LIAM J · 2019 to 2022
$2.1M
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation (ARCS) Foundation AwardHHS | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) TR01 NS127186Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) RGP0016/2022-102National Science Foundation (NSF) PHY-1734030NCI NIH HHS R37 CA240765NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132447NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS127186NSF | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) GRF 1656518Princeton University (PU) Joseph H. Taylor FellowshipStanford University (SU) Crispin Stanford Graduate Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The crowded bacterial cytoplasm is composed of biomolecules that span several orders of magnitude in size and electrical charge. This complexity has been proposed as the source of the rich spatial organization and apparent anomalous diffusion of intracellular components, although this has not been tested directly. Here, we use biplane microscopy to track the 3D motion of self-assembled bacterial genetically encoded multimeric nanoparticles (bGEMs) with tunable size (20 to 50 nm) and charge (-3,240 to +2,700 e) in live

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Escherichia coliMacromolecular SubstancesNanoparticlesRibosomesCytoplasmDiffusionParticle SizeMacromolecular Substancesanomalous diffusionbacterial cytoplasmbiophysicsmicrobiology

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PMID39854229
PMCPMC11789073

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