This is the mechanistic interpretation proposed for how chemotaxis clusters form and are maintained. The paper argues that stochastic self-assembly can generate approximately periodic membrane structures without direct cytoskeletal involvement or active transport.
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Chemotaxis cluster sizes are approximately exponentially distributed and lack a characteristic cluster size.
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We find that cluster sizes are approximately exponentially distributed, with no characteristic cluster size.
About one-third of Tar receptors are in smaller lateral clusters rather than large polar clusters.
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One-third of Tar receptors are part of smaller lateral clusters and not of the large polar clusters.
Analysis of 1.1 million individual protein localizations from 326 cells suggests that chemotaxis clusters form via stochastic self-assembly.
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Analysis of the relative cellular locations of 1.1 million individual proteins (from 326 cells) suggests that clusters form via stochastic self-assembly.
Super-resolution PALM maps support that stochastic self-assembly can create and maintain approximately periodic membrane structures without direct cytoskeletal involvement or active transport.
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The super-resolution PALM maps of E. coli receptors support the notion that stochastic self-assembly can create and maintain approximately periodic structures in biological membranes, without direct cytoskeletal involvement or active transport.