ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Membrane molecular crowding enhances MreB polymerization to shape synthetic cells from spheres to rods.
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- Reconstituted systems for studying the architecture and dynamics of actin networks.The Biochemical journal · 2025Review
- Cell-Free Gene Expression: Methods and Applications.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on the Structure and Dynamics of Biological Membranes.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2025Review
- Artificial cells for in vivo biomedical applications through red blood cell biomimicry.Nature communications · 2024Review
- Functional metal-phenolic cortical cytoskeleton for artificial cells.Science advances · 2024Article
- Artificial cell system as a tool for investigating pattern formation mechanisms of intracellular reaction-diffusion waves.Biophysics and physicobiology · 2024Review
- Macromolecular crowding: Sensing without a sensor.Current opinion in cell biology · 2023Review
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- Water Stress-Driven Changes in Bacterial Cell Surface Properties.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- DNA-assisted selective electrofusion (DASE) ofNanoscale · 2022Article
- Negative autoregulation controls size scaling in confined gene expression reactions.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Progress on Crowding Effect in Cell-like Structures.Membranes · 2022Review
- Filament organization of the bacterial actin MreB is dependent on the nucleotide state.The Journal of cell biology · 2022Article
- In vivo, in vitro and in silico: an open space for the development of microbe-based applications of synthetic biology.Microbial biotechnology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Executing gene circuits by cell-free transcription-translation into cell-sized compartments, such as liposomes, is one of the major bottom-up approaches to building minimal cells. The dynamic synthesis and proper self-assembly of macromolecular structures inside liposomes, the cytoskeleton in particular, stands as a central limitation to the development of cell analogs genetically programmed. In this work, we express the
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