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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology2021

Engineering spatiotemporal organization and dynamics in synthetic cells.

Alessandro Groaz, Hossein Moghimianavval, Franco Tavella, Tobias W Giessen, Anthony G Vecchiarelli, Qiong Yang, Allen P Liu

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. pH-Responsive Elastin-Like Polypeptide Designer Condensates.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2023
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  13. Biomimetic behaviors in hydrogel artificial cells through embedded organelles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  14. Engineering Functional Membrane-Membrane Interfaces by InterSpy.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023
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  15. Methods to mechanically perturb and characterize GUV-based minimal cell models.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alessandro GroazUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Hossein MoghimianavvalUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Franco TavellaUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Tobias W GiessenUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Anthony G VecchiarelliUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Qiong YangUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2442-2094
Allen P LiuUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0309-7018

Funding

Protein Organelles In Human-Associated BacteriaR35GM133325 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Tobias Wolfgang Giessen · 2019 to 2026
$3.8M
Supplement: Quantitative in vitro and in vivo analyses of oscillatory processes in early zebrafish embryosR35GM119688 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI YANG, QIONG · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119688NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133325
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Constructing synthetic cells has recently become an appealing area of research. Decades of research in biochemistry and cell biology have amassed detailed part lists of components involved in various cellular processes. Nevertheless, recreating any cellular process in vitro in cell-sized compartments remains ambitious and challenging. Two broad features or principles are key to the development of synthetic cells-compartmentalization and self-organization/spatiotemporal dynamics. In this review article, we discuss the current state of the art and research trends in the engineering of synthetic cell membranes, development of internal compartmentalization, reconstitution of self-organizing dynamics, and integration of activities across scales of space and time. We also identify some research areas that could play a major role in advancing the impact and utility of engineered synthetic cells. This article is categorized under: Biology-Inspired Nanomaterials > Lipid-Based Structures Biology-Inspired Nanomaterials > Protein and Virus-Based Structures.

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Artificial CellsNanostructuresSynthetic BiologyCell Membraneartificial cellsin vitro reconstitutionprotein compartmentsynthetic cell

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PMID33219745
PMCPMC8162676

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