Short polymer compartments (IMAGE)

Penn State

Short polymer compartments

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Membraneless compartments made from short polymers (10 unit long polymer of aspartic acid and 10 unit long lysine). Brightfield image (left) and fluorescent image (right) showing fluorescently labeled RNA (red) partitioned into the compartment.

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Fatma Pir Cakmak, Penn State

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