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Current Ideas about Prebiological Compartmentalization
Life, 2015 Contemporary biological cells are highly sophisticated dynamic compartment systems which separate an internal volume from the external medium through a boundary, which controls, in complex ways, the exchange of matter and energy between the cell’s ...
Pierre-Alain Monnard, Peter Walde
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A Stefan problem for a protocell model
, 1998 Friedman, Avner; Hu, Bei. (1998). A Stefan problem for a protocell model.
Hu, Bei, Friedman, Avner
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Fatty Acid-Based Coacervates as a Membrane-free Protocell Model
, 2022 Membrane-less scenarios that involve liquid–liquid phase separation (coacervation) provide clues for how protocells might emerge. Here, we report a versatile approach to construct coacervates by mixing fatty acid with biomolecule dopamine as the ...
Zibiao Li (1418716) +19 more
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Life, 2014 Explanation of the emergence of primitive cellular structures from a set of chemical reactions is necessary to unveil the origin of life and to experimentally synthesize protocells.
Atsushi Kamimura, Kunihiko Kaneko
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Antagonistic chemical coupling in self-reconfigurable host–guest protocells
Nature Communications, 2018 Multi-compartmentalised soft micro-systems are used as models of synthetic protocells. Here, the authors developed nested host–guest protocell constructs capable of self-reconfiguration in response to changes in pH generated by antagonistic modes of ...
Nicolas Martin +5 more
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Biophysics and PhysicobiologyHow do the living systems emerge from non-living molecular assemblies? What physical and chemical principles supported the process? To address these questions, a promising strategy is to artificially reconstruct living cells in a bottom-up way. Recently,
Minoru Kurisu, Masayuki Imai
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Synchronization phenomena in non linear protocell model
, 2009 In this paper we study general protocell models aiming to un-derstand the synchronization phenomenon of genetic material and containerproductions, a necessary condition to ensure sustainable growth in protocellsand eventually leading to Darwinian ...
VILLANI, Marco +4 more
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A Model Protometabolic Pathway across Protocell Membranes Assisted by Photocatalytic Minerals
, 2019 Protocell analogs (lipid vesicles) to modern cell membranes have been postulated as compartments that may have been involved in primordial metabolism during the transition from geochemistry to biochemistry on early Earth. The transduction of light energy
Nita Sahai (475471) +3 more
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STAR ProtocolsSummary: Sensing is a critical function of artificial cells; however, this is challenging to realize using bottom-up approaches. Here, we present a protocol for building protocell membranes that sense cues important for redox biochemistry and signaling ...
Liming Wang +3 more
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Preliminary steps toward artificial protocell computation [PDF]
, 2007 Protocells are hypothesised as a transitional phase in the origin of life, prior to the evolution of fully functional prokaryotic cells. The work reported here is being done in the context of the PACE project, which is investigating the fabrication of ...
McMullin, Barry +4 more
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