Characteristics of pore migration controlled by diffusion through the pore-filling fluid

Facilitated diffusion through the perforin pore

Cytotoxic lymphocytes eliminate virally infected or neoplastic cells through the action of cytotoxic proteases (granzymes). The poreforming protein perforin is essential for delivery of granzymes into the cytoplasm of target cells, however the mechanism of this delivery is incompletely understood. Perforin contains a membrane attack complex / perforin (MACPF) domain and oligomerises to form an ...

Aftershocks and Pore Fluid Diffusion Following the 1992 Landers Earthquake

Diffusion Pore Imaging

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) diffusion measurements are widely used to derive parameters indirectly related to the microstructure of biological tissues and porous media. However, a direct imaging of cell or pore shapes and sizes would be of high interest. For a long time, determining pore shapes by NMR diffusion acquisitions seemed impossible, because the necessary phase information could n...

Simple rules for passive diffusion through the nuclear pore complex

Passive macromolecular diffusion through nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) is thought to decrease dramatically beyond a 30-60-kD size threshold. Using thousands of independent time-resolved fluorescence microscopy measurements in vivo, we show that the NPC lacks such a firm size threshold; instead, it forms a soft barrier to passive diffusion that intensifies gradually with increasing molecular mas...

Solid-ionic liquid interfaces: pore filling revisited.

The properties of ionic liquids on ordered and non-ordered mesoporous silicas (silica gel, MCM-41, SBA-15) were studied by nitrogen sorption, mercury intrusion and thermogravimetric analyses, as well as (129)Xe-NMR spectroscopy. The ionic liquids investigated are based on the 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium cation, which was combined with anions of low (bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide; [NTf2](-)...