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Selection for Replicases in Protocells [PDF]

PLoS Computational Biology, 2013
PMCID: PMC3649988This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
A Kun, A Traulsen, A Wochner, AI Rushdi, AJ Dzieciol, AJ Markvoort, DE Kim, DW Deamer, E Szathmary, F Mavelli, G Yuen, Ginestra Bianconi, GU Yuen, GU Yuen, H Naraoka, HS Zaher, I Scheuring, IA Chen, IA Chen, Irene A. Chen, J Dworkin, JA Doudna, JF Fontanari, JG Lawless, JW Szostak, JW Szostak, K Kurihara, K Leu, KD James, Kun Zhao, M Eigen, M Eigen, M Leaver, M Nowak, M Wu, MA Nowak, MA Nowak, MA Nowak, Martin A. Nowak, Michael Doebeli, N Paul, N Takeuchi, N Vaidya, P Hogeweg, P Hogeweg, P Stano, P Szabo, P Walde, PG Higgs, RC Lewontin, RM Turk, SF Zenisek, SS Jain, SS Mansy, TA Lincoln, TF Zhu, TF Zhu, TM McCollom, UF Müller, V Vasas, WK Johnston, WV Allen   +61 more
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The evolutionary dynamics of metabolic protocells. [PDF]

PLoS Computational Biology, 2018
Protocell multilevel selection models have been proposed to study the evolutionary dynamics of vesicles encapsulating a set of replicating, competing and mutating sequences.
Ximo Pechuan, Raymond Puzio, Aviv Bergman   +2 more
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Programmed Fabrication of Vesicle‐Based Prototissue Fibers with Modular Functionalities [PDF]

Advanced Science
Multicellular organisms have hierarchical structures where multiple cells collectively form tissues with complex 3D architectures and exhibit higher‐order functions.
Tomoya Kojima, Kouichi Asakura, Pierangelo Gobbo, Taisuke Banno   +3 more
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Protocells [PDF]

Current Biology, 2020
Lai and Chen introduce the role of compartmentalization in the evolution of life.
Yei-Chen, Lai, Irene A, Chen
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Colony-like Protocell Superstructures [PDF]

Biophysical Journal, 2021
Abstract We report the formation, growth, and dynamics of model protocell superstructures on solid surfaces, resembling single cell colonies. These structures, consisting of several layers of lipidic compartments enveloped in a dome-shaped outer lipid bilayer, emerged as a result of spontaneous shape transformation of lipid agglomerates
Katke, Chinmay, Pedrueza-Villalmanzo, Esteban, Spustova, Karolina, Ryskulov, Ruslan, Kaplan, C. Nadir, Gözen, Irep   +5 more
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An inorganic mineral-based protocell with prebiotic radiation fitness

Nature Communications, 2023
Protocell fitness under extreme prebiotic conditions is critical in understanding the origin of life. However, little is known about protocell’s survival and fitness under prebiotic radiations.
Shang Dai, Zhenming Xie, Binqiang Wang, Rui Ye, Xinwen Ou, Chen Wang, Ning Yu, Cheng Huang, Jie Zhao, Chunhui Cai, Furong Zhang, Damiano Buratto, Taimoor Khan, Yan Qiao, Yuejin Hua, Ruhong Zhou, Bing Tian   +16 more
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Non-interfacial self-assembly of synthetic protocells

Biomaterials Research, 2023
Background Protocell refers to the basic unit of life and synthetic molecular assembly with cell structure and function. The protocells have great applications in the field of biomedical technology.
Xiaolin Xu, Wencai Guan, Xiaolei Yu, Guoxiong Xu, Chenglong Wang   +4 more
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Evolution of Proliferative Model Protocells Highly Responsive to the Environment

Life, 2022
In this review, we discuss various methods of reproducing life dynamics using a constructive approach. An increase in the structural complexity of a model protocell is accompanied by an increase in the stage of reproduction of a compartment (giant ...
Muneyuki Matsuo, Taro Toyota, Kentaro Suzuki, Tadashi Sugawara   +3 more
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THE GROWTH OF POPULATIONS OF PROTOCELLS [PDF]

Processes of Emergence of Systems and Systemic Properties, 2008
the growth of protocells is discussed under different hypotheses (one or more replicators, linear and nonlinear kinetics) using a class of abstract models (Surface Reaction Models). A method to analyze the dynamics of successive protocell generations is presented, and it is applied to the problem of determining whether the duplication times of the ...
SERRA, Roberto, T. Carletti, I. Poli, FILISETTI, alessandro   +3 more
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Did Solid Surfaces Enable the Origin of Life?

Life, 2021
In this perspective article, I discuss whether and how solid surfaces could have played a key role in the formation of membranous primitive cells on the early Earth.
İrep Gözen
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