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The sweet coat of living cells – from supramolecular organization and dynamics to biological function
Many biological cells endow themselves with a sugar-rich coat that plays a key role in the protection of the cell and in structuring and communicating with its environment. An outstanding property of these pericellular coats is their dynamic self-organization into strongly hydrated and gel-like meshworks. Tailor-made model systems that are constructed from the molecular building blocks of pericellular coats can help to understand how the coats function.
@mpi_year_book{year_book_richter_2011, title = {The sweet coat of living cells – from supramolecular organization and dynamics to biological function}, abstract = {Many biological cells endow themselves with a sugar-rich coat that plays a key role in the protection of the cell and in structuring and communicating with its environment. An outstanding property of these pericellular coats is their dynamic self-organization into strongly hydrated and gel-like meshworks. Tailor-made model systems that are constructed from the molecular building blocks of pericellular coats can help to understand how the coats function.}, year = {2011}, slug = {year_book_richter_2011}, author = {Richter, Ralf}, url = {https://www.mpg.de/1182122/Modellsysteme_Zellhuellen?c=11741001} }