We discuss a quantitative influence of macromolecular crowding on biological processes:
motion, bimolecular reactions, and gene expression in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. We …

Solutions of different polymers in the same solvent are incompatible as a rule and show
phase separation when they are mixed. H incompatibility is also to be observed in systems …

The extracellular fluid (ECF) is a crowded environment containing macromolecules that
determine its characteristic density, osmotic pressure, and viscosity, which greatly differ …

The viscosity in soft matter systems is a scale dependent quantity. In polymer solutions the
viscosity of nanoprobes of size R approaches the macroscopic viscosity when R exceeds …

Enzymes are biomacromolecular protein catalysts that are widely used in a plethora of
industrial-scale applications due to their high selectivity, efficiency and ability to work under …

Motile droplets using Marangoni convection are attracting attention for their potential as cell-
mimicking small robots. However, the motion of droplets relative to the internal and external …

The interior of the living cell is highly concentrated and structured with molecules that have
different shapes and sizes. Almost all experimental biochemical data have been obtained …

Enzyme kinetics studies have been usually designed as dilute solution experiments, which
differ substantially from in vivo conditions. However, cell cytosol is crowded with a high …

ABSTRACT Two amphiphilic TPE E/Z isomers with aggregation induced emission (AIE)
property have been synthesized and characterized. The logarithmic fluorescent intensity of …

The dimeric motor protein kinesin-1 moves processively along microtubules against forces
of up to 7 pN. However, the mechanism of force generation is still debated. Here, we point to …