Thumbnail image from Maguire 2019 BPJ submission

Bound-state diffusion due to binding to flexible polymers in a selective biofilter

Aug. 25, 2019

We demonstrate that bound mobility via tethered diffusion can be engineered into a synthetic gel using protein fragments derived from the nuclear pore complex.

Thumbnail of the nuclear pore complex from Maguire et al. 2019

Design principles of selective transport through biopolymer barriers

July 30, 2019

We develop a model motivated by features of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) which provides a framework to control binding-induced selective transport in bipolymeric materials.