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ArticleChemical science2019

Chemical communication in spatially organized protocell colonies and protocell/living cell micro-arrays.

Xuejing Wang, Liangfei Tian, Hang Du, Mei Li, Wei Mu, Bruce W Drinkwater, Xiaojun Han, Stephen Mann

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Article in Chemical science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Xuejing WangState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment , School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin , 150001 , China . Email: hanxiaojun@hit.edu.cn.
Liangfei TianCentre for Protolife Research and Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry , School of Chemistry University of Bristol , Bristol , BS8 1TS UK . Email: s.mann@bristol.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-4340-2598
Hang DuState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment , School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin , 150001 , China . Email: hanxiaojun@hit.edu.cn.
Mei LiCentre for Protolife Research and Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry , School of Chemistry University of Bristol , Bristol , BS8 1TS UK . Email: s.mann@bristol.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-7105-6632
Wei MuState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment , School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin , 150001 , China . Email: hanxiaojun@hit.edu.cn.
Bruce W DrinkwaterFaculty of Engineering , University of Bristol , Bristol , BS8 1TR UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8307-1175
Xiaojun HanState Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment , School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin , 150001 , China . Email: hanxiaojun@hit.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-8571-6187
Stephen MannCentre for Protolife Research and Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry , School of Chemistry University of Bristol , Bristol , BS8 1TS UK . Email: s.mann@bristol.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-3012-8964
Harbin University · CNUniversity of Bristol · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L01386X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Micro-arrays of discrete or hemifused giant unilamellar lipid vesicles (GUVs) with controllable spatial geometries, lattice dimensions, trapped occupancies and compositions are prepared by acoustic standing wave patterning, and employed as platforms to implement chemical signaling in GUV colonies and protocell/living cell consortia. The methodology offers an alternative approach to GUV micro-array fabrication and provides new opportunities in protocell research and bottom-up synthetic biology.

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PMID32055320
PMCPMC6991169
OpenAlexW2974888122

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