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Membrane Crowding

Membrane Crowding is a biophysical phenomenon characterized by the dense packing of macromolecules within cellular membranes, which restricts lateral diffusion and alters molecular interactions due to excluded volume effects.

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Anomalous transport in the crowded world of biological cells

Reports on Progress in Physics · 2013 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Anomalous Subdiffusion Is a Measure for Cytoplasmic Crowding in Living Cells

Markus Elsner, Fredrik Kartberg, Tommy Nilsson · Biophysical Journal · 2004 · 766 citations · Full text

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Ergodic and nonergodic processes coexist in the plasma membrane as observed by single-molecule tracking

Aubrey V. Weigel, Blair Simon, Michael M. Tamkun et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 674 citations · Full text

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Membrane bending by protein–protein crowding

Jeanne C. Stachowiak, Eva M. Schmid, Christopher Ryan et al. · Nature Cell Biology · 2012 · 548 citations

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Effect of Dextran on Protein Stability and Conformation Attributed to Macromolecular Crowding

Kenji Sasahara, Peter McPhie, Allen P. Minton · Journal of Molecular Biology · 2003 · 319 citations

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Authors

359

  1. BP
    Bert Poolman

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    5 publications · 477 citations

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  2. MJ
    Matti Javanainen

    University of Helsinki, Finland

    5 publications · 615 citations

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  3. IV
    Ilpo Vattulainen

    4 publications · 590 citations

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  4. HM
    Hector Martinez‐Seara

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechia

    4 publications · 593 citations

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  5. AJ
    Arnold J. Boersma

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    3 publications · 269 citations

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Institutions

199

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    479 citations

  2. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    15 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    791 citations

  4. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    4 h-index

    15 publications

    1.9K citations

  5. Tampere University

    Tampere, Finland

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    510 citations

  7. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry

    Prague, Czechia

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    455 citations

  8. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    116 citations

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  1. Biophysical Journal

    13 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 5 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Journal of Molecular Biology

    JMB · 3 publications · 553 citations

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  4. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

    4 publications · 167 citations

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  5. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 3 publications · 127 citations

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