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ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2020

Growth of Giant Peptide Vesicles Driven by Compartmentalized Transcription-Translation Activity.

Thomas Frank, Kilian Vogele, Aurore Dupin, Friedrich C Simmel, Tobias Pirzer

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Article in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Emergent properties of supramolecular peptide assemblies.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2026
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  4. Synthetic Cells Revisited: Artificial Cells Construction Using Polymeric Building Blocks.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  8. Spontaneous Self-Organized Order Emerging From Intrinsically Disordered Protein Polymers.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas FrankPhysics-Department and ZNN, Technical University Munich, Am Coulombwall 4a, 85748, Garching, Germany.
Kilian VogelePhysics-Department and ZNN, Technical University Munich, Am Coulombwall 4a, 85748, Garching, Germany.
Aurore DupinPhysics-Department and ZNN, Technical University Munich, Am Coulombwall 4a, 85748, Garching, Germany.
Friedrich C SimmelPhysics-Department and ZNN, Technical University Munich, Am Coulombwall 4a, 85748, Garching, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3829-3446
Tobias PirzerPhysics-Department and ZNN, Technical University Munich, Am Coulombwall 4a, 85748, Garching, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4603-8851
Technical University of Munich · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Project-ID 364653263 - TRR 235/P15Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft RTG 2062FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 694410Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Compartmentalization and spatial organization of biochemical reactions are essential for the establishment of complex metabolic pathways inside synthetic cells. Phospholipid and fatty acid membranes are the most natural candidates for this purpose, but also polymers have shown great potential as enclosures of artificial cell mimics. Herein, we report on the formation of giant vesicles in a size range of 1 μm-100 μm using amphiphilic elastin-like polypeptides. The peptide vesicles can accommodate cell-free gene expression reactions, which is demonstrated by the transcription of a fluorescent RNA aptamer and the production of a fluorescent protein. Importantly, gene expression inside the vesicles leads to a strong growth of their size-up to an order of magnitude in volume in several cases-which is driven by changes in osmotic pressure, resulting in fusion events and uptake of membrane peptides from the environment.

Indexed as

Artificial CellsElastinPeptidesPhospholipidsPolymersElastinPeptidesPhospholipidsPolymersartificial cellselastin-like polypeptidesmembranessynthetic biologyvesicle growth

Identifiers

PMID32777105
PMCPMC7839564
OpenAlexW3047863045

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