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The Role of Quantum Decoherence in FRET
Philip C. Nelson
Resonance energy transfer has become an indispensable experimental tool for single-molecule and single-cell biophysics. Its physical underpinnings, however, are subtle: It involves…
Stochastic Simulation to Visualize Gene Expression and Error Correction in Living Cells
Kevin Y. Chen, Daniel M. Zuckerman, Philip C. Nelson
Stochastic simulation can make the molecular processes of cellular control more vivid than the traditional differential-equation approach by generating typical system histories ins…
The syncytial Drosophila embryo as a mechanically excitable medium
Timon Idema, Julien O. Dubuis, Louis Kang +4
Mitosis in the early syncytial Drosophila embryo is highly correlated in space and time, as manifested in mitotic wavefronts that propagate across the embryo. In this paper we inve…
Twirling of actin by myosins II and V observed via polarized TIRF in a modified gliding assay
John F. Beausang, Harry W. Schroeder, Philip C. Nelson +1
The force generated between actin and myosin acts predominantly along the direction of the actin filament, resulting in relative sliding of the thick and thin filaments in muscle o…
The role of microtubule movement in bidirectional organelle transport
Igor M. Kulić, André E. X. Brown, Hwajin Kim +5
We study the role of microtubule movement in bidirectional organelle transport in Drosophila S2 cells and show that EGFP-tagged peroxisomes in cells serve as sensitive probes of mo…
Concentration and Length Dependence of DNA Looping in Transcriptional Regulation
Lin Han, Hernan G. Garcia, Seth Blumberg +4
In many cases, transcriptional regulation involves the binding of transcription factors at sites on the DNA that are not immediately adjacent to the promoter of interest. This acti…