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ArticleACS nano2021

Directed Signaling Cascades in Monodisperse Artificial Eukaryotic Cells.

Sunidhi C Shetty, Naresh Yandrapalli, Kerstin Pinkwart, Dorothee Krafft, Tanja Vidakovic-Koch, Ivan Ivanov, Tom Robinson

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Article in ACS nano, 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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21citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sunidhi C ShettyTheory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Naresh YandrapalliTheory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Kerstin PinkwartTheory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Dorothee KrafftMax Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstrasse 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.
Tanja Vidakovic-KochMax Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstrasse 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3896-3585
Ivan IvanovMax Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstrasse 1, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4675-5287
Tom RobinsonTheory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5236-7179
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces · DEMax Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bottom-up assembly of multicompartment artificial cells that are able to direct biochemical reactions along a specific spatial pathway remains a considerable engineering challenge. In this work, we address this with a microfluidic platform that is able to produce monodisperse multivesicular vesicles (MVVs) to serve as synthetic eukaryotic cells. Using a two-inlet polydimethylsiloxane channel design to co-encapsulate different populations of liposomes we are able to produce lipid-based MVVs in a high-throughput manner and with three separate inner compartments, each containing a different enzyme: α-glucosidase, glucose oxidase, and horseradish peroxidase. We demonstrate the ability of these MVVs to carry out directed chemical communication between the compartments

Indexed as

Artificial CellsEukaryotic CellsLiposomesMicrofluidicsSignal TransductionLiposomesartificial cellsbottom-updirected signalingenzyme cascademicrofluidicsmulticompartmentalizationsynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID34570489
PMCPMC8552445
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