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Molecular velcro in Flatland

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A layer of disordered proteins can selectively control the diffusion of particles along a surface.

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Figure 1: The interaction of nucleoporin-functionalized substrates with colloidal probes that are modified with nuclear transport receptors (karyopherins, Kap)2.

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  1. Jurriaan Huskens is at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands,

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