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In Vitro Reconstitution of Self-Organizing Protein Patterns on Supported Lipid Bilayers
Published on: July 28, 2018
Self-Organization Induced by Self-Assembly in Microheterogeneous Reaction-Diffusion System
Alexander A Cherkashin1, Vladimir K Vanag2
1Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow 119899, Russia.
Abstract:
When acrylamide (AA) monomers are added to the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction incorporated into nanodroplets of water-in-oil aerosol OT (AOT) microemulsion (the BZ-AOT system), free radicals produced in the BZ reaction initiate polymerization of AA monomers and polyacrylamide particles are formed. These particles change the microstructure of the AOT microemulsion thus inducing the transition from Turing patterns to new dissipative patterns which can be either stationary "black" spots or waves.
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