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Advanced Materials InterfacesLiquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) droplets of biopolymers are known as functional microdroplets in living cells and have recently been used to construct protocells and artificial cells.
Masamune Morita +5 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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Energy Conversion in Protocells with Natural Nanoconductors [PDF]
, 2012 While much nanotechnology leverages solid-state devices, here we present the analysis of designs for hybrid organic-inorganic biomimetic devices, “protocells,” based on assemblies of natural ion channels and ion pumps, “nanoconductors,” incorporated into
Jian Xu +2 more
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Population Dynamics of Autocatalytic Sets in a Compartmentalized Spatial World
Life, 2018 Autocatalytic sets are self-sustaining and collectively catalytic chemical reaction networks which are believed to have played an important role in the origin of life.
Wim Hordijk +3 more
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The RNA-DNA world and the emergence of DNA-encoded heritable traits
RNA BiologyThe RNA world hypothesis confers a central role to RNA molecules in information encoding and catalysis. Even though evidence in support of this hypothesis has accumulated from both experiments and computational modelling, the transition from an RNA world
Suvam Roy, Supratim Sengupta
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Synchronization phenomena in surface-reaction models of protocells [PDF]
, 2006 A class of generic models of protocells is introduced,which are inspired by the Los Alamos bug hypothesis but which,due to their abstraction level, can be applied to a wider set ofdetailed protocell hypotheses.
Carletti, Timoteo; id_orcid +7 more
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The evolutionary dynamics of metabolic protocells
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. The frequency of the different sequence types determines protocell survival through a fitness function.
Ximo Pechuan +2 more
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Coming Phase to Phase with Surfactants
, 2011 We introduce a fast cellular automata model for the simulation of surfactant dynamics based on a previous model by Ono and Ikegami (2001). Here, individual lipid-like particles undergo stochastic movement and rotation on a two-dimensional lattice in ...
Bartlett, Stuart, Bullock, Seth
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Confocal Microscopy of Diverse Protocells
Modern life is composed of compartmentalization, genetics, metabolism, and self- replication. The precursors to all of this are thought to be protocells, simpler cells that have a lipid membrane with RNA on the inside.
Patel, Sonya
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Selection for Motifs Within Protocells: A Computational Study in Prelife
, 2019 The transition from pre-life, where self-replication does not occur, to life, where self-replication and Darwinian evolution occur, has not yet been fully delineated.
Kinsler, Grant Richard
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