ATP driven diffusiophoresis: active cargo transport without motor proteins
B. Ramm, A. Goychuk, A. Khmelinskaia, P. Blumhardt, K. A. Ganzinger, E. Frey, P. Schwille
The paper demonstrates a non-specific physical mechanism for active cargo transport using the MinDE protein system in E. coli, sorting cargo by size through diffusiophoresis.
Nature Physics · Apr 5, 2021Peer-reviewedBiophysics