ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2015
Towards self-assembled hybrid artificial cells: novel bottom-up approaches to functional synthetic membranes.
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- Medical and Nonmedical Applications of Synthetic Transmembrane Anion Transporters.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Artificial cells and biomimicry cells: A rising star in the fight against cancer.Materials today. Bio · 2025Review
- Pepticombisomes: Biomimetic Vesicles Crafted From Recombinant Supercharged Polypeptides with Uniformly Distributed Side-Chains.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Biomimetic construction of phospholipid membranes by direct aminolysis ligations.Interface focus · 2023Article
- Bottom-Up Construction of a Minimal System for Cellular Respiration and Energy Regeneration.ACS synthetic biology · 2020Article
- Physicochemical Characterization of Polymer-Stabilized Coacervate Protocells.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2019Article
- Encapsulation of hydrophobic components in dendrimersomes and decoration of their surface with proteins and nucleic acids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Spatiotemporal control of coacervate formation within liposomes.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Synthetic Minimal Cell: Self-Reproduction of the Boundary Layer.ACS omega · 2019Article
- A minimal biochemical route towards de novo formation of synthetic phospholipid membranes.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Is Research on "Synthetic Cells" Moving to the Next Level?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- The hallmarks of living systems: towards creating artificial cells.Interface focus · 2018Review
- Constructing Smart Protocells with Built-In DNA Computational Core to Eliminate Exogenous Challenge.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018Article
- Growing Membranes In Vitro by Continuous Phospholipid Biosynthesis from Free Fatty Acids.ACS synthetic biology · 2018Article
- Hierarchical Self-Assembly of a Copolymer-Stabilized Coacervate Protocell.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017Article
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- Emergence of a New Self-Replicator from a Dynamic Combinatorial Library Requires a Specific Pre-Existing Replicator.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017Article
- Engineering genetic circuit interactions within and between synthetic minimal cells.Nature chemistry · 2017Article
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Abstract
There has been increasing interest in utilizing bottom-up approaches to develop synthetic cells. A popular methodology is the integration of functionalized synthetic membranes with biological systems, producing "hybrid" artificial cells. This Concept article covers recent advances and the current state-of-the-art of such hybrid systems. Specifically, we describe minimal supramolecular constructs that faithfully mimic the structure and/or function of living cells, often by controlling the assembly of highly ordered membrane architectures with defined functionality. These studies give us a deeper understanding of the nature of living systems, bring new insights into the origin of cellular life, and provide novel synthetic chassis for advancing synthetic biology.
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