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A toehold in cell surface dynamics

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A combination of standard fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry offers a practical new approach to study encounter rates and preferences during various live cell membrane signalling events.

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Figure 1: Membrane components exchange contact information via DNA toehold strand displacement.

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  1. Paul A. Beales is at the School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK,

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Beales, P. A toehold in cell surface dynamics. Nature Nanotech 12, 404–406 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.20

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