Stovbun SV, Skoblin AA, Zanin AM, Mikhailov AI, Tverdislov VA, Bragina EE, Rybin YM, Ageev IM, Shishkin GG. Metric similarity of dynamic commutation processes in situ and in vitro.
Bull Exp Biol Med 2012;
153:843-5. [PMID:
23113299 DOI:
10.1007/s10517-012-1840-3]
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Abstract
The dynamics of string growth was studied in model homochiral solutions of biomimetics, trifluoroacetylated amino alcohols (TFAAA) in heptane, water, and inverted heptane-water emulsion. In heptane and water, a thick (~1 μ in diameter) string had a crown of thin strings on its growing terminal and these thin strings effectively adsorbed dissolved TFAAA. In emulsion, the strings grew inside the water droplets, in which this TFAAA cannot be solved, presumably due to transport of TFAAA molecules from heptane into water in the surface layer surrounding the string. Applications of these phenomena to in vivo cell commutation were discussed.
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