R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools
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Blog Post
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April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
... can rupture E. coli spheroplasts (cells which have had their cell walls removed with lysozyme). This ... blogger Jessica Polka, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Pamela Silver.
Most types of biological motion...distance? And can we understand such a structure well enough to engineer it to suit our purposes?
In ...distance? And can we understand such a structure well enough to engineer it to suit our purposes?
These...protein fusions allowed us to image R bodies inside cells, and these constructs may be useful to future scientists...applications. For example, you could use them to lyse cells (and surrounding membranes) in keeping with their...penetrate other barriers (like vasculature or extracellular matrices) in response to pH changes.
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