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Crowded Proteins

Posted on August 27, 2008

As Arthur Kornberg never tired of pointing out, cells are gels. It s too easy for biologists and chemists to imagine cells as sort of like liquid-filled plastic bags and while that s an OK picture as far as it goes, it tends to make you picture the cytoplasm as a lot more dilute than it really is. Something about the consistency of gumbo is more like it maybe even the first batch of gumbo I ever made, to the whole pot of which I cluelessly added a good strong dose of fil powder, causing it all to set up into something could be nearly be sliced like a meat loaf.The point is, there...

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