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Review

A Perspective on the Mobilization, Localization and Delivery of Molecules in the Crowded Bacterial Cytoplasm

Laboratory of Microbiology, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd., East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 2012, 14(2), 39-46; https://doi.org/10.21775/cimb.014.039
Submission received: 3 May 2011 / Revised: 4 July 2011 / Accepted: 6 September 2011 / Published: 16 November 2011

Abstract

It has been assumed that diffusion of molecules in the bacterial cytoplasm is the mechanism that moves molecules in the absence of cytoplasmic streaming. However, is there an undiscovered mechanism present that mobilizes cytoplasm and its molecular contents, and delivers tRNAs to specific ribosomes at specific bacterial cytoplasmic locations? Mobilization of specific tRNA (and also mRNA transcripts and ribosomes) and cell division proteins to specific intracellular locations may suggest that instructions and/or mechanism(s) are needed. The alternative is that molecular crowding in the cytoplasm is sufficient for gentle contact between mRNA, ribosomes and tRNA. Or is it plausible that the bacterial cytoplasm (and its contents) are mobilized with the outcome being more gentle collisions between molecules than by a diffusion only mechanism? One hypothesis is that cytoplasmic and molecule mobilization and spatial organization are possibly driven by the photons in thermal infrared (IR) radiation and generation of exclusion zone (EZ) water in the cytoplasm.
Keywords: bacteria; crowding; cytoplaasm; diffusion; radiation; water bacteria; crowding; cytoplaasm; diffusion; radiation; water

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Trevors, J.T. A Perspective on the Mobilization, Localization and Delivery of Molecules in the Crowded Bacterial Cytoplasm. Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 2012, 14, 39-46. https://doi.org/10.21775/cimb.014.039

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Trevors JT. A Perspective on the Mobilization, Localization and Delivery of Molecules in the Crowded Bacterial Cytoplasm. Current Issues in Molecular Biology. 2012; 14(2):39-46. https://doi.org/10.21775/cimb.014.039

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Trevors, J. T. 2012. "A Perspective on the Mobilization, Localization and Delivery of Molecules in the Crowded Bacterial Cytoplasm" Current Issues in Molecular Biology 14, no. 2: 39-46. https://doi.org/10.21775/cimb.014.039

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Trevors, J. T. (2012). A Perspective on the Mobilization, Localization and Delivery of Molecules in the Crowded Bacterial Cytoplasm. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 14(2), 39-46. https://doi.org/10.21775/cimb.014.039

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