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Diffusion inside living human cells

  • Naturally occurring lipid granules diffuse in the cytoplasm and can be used as tracers to map out the viscoelastic landscape inside living cells. Using optical trapping and single particle tracking we found that lipid granules exhibit anomalous diffusion inside human umbilical vein endothelial cells. For these cells the exact diffusional pattern of a particular granule depends on the physiological state of the cell and on the localization of the granule within the cytoplasm. Granules located close to the actin rich periphery of the cell move less than those located towards to the center of the cell or within the nucleus. Also, granules in cells which are stressed by intense laser illumination or which have attached to a surface for a long period of time move in a more restricted fashion than those within healthy cells. For granules diffusing in healthy cells, in regions away from the cell periphery, occurrences of weak ergodicity breaking are observed, similar to the recent observations inside living fission yeast cells [1].

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Author details:N. Leijnse, J. -H. Jeon, S. Loft, Ralf MetzlerORCiDGND, L. B. Oddershede
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01553-y
ISSN:1951-6355
Title of parent work (English):European physical journal special topics
Publisher:Springer
Place of publishing:Heidelberg
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2012
Publication year:2012
Release date:2017/03/26
Volume:204
Issue:1
Number of pages:10
First page:75
Last Page:84
Funding institution:Lundbeck Foundation 'Center for Biomembranes in Nanomedicine'; University of Copenhagen; Academy of Finland
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie
Peer review:Referiert
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