ReviewMembranes2021
Synthetic Cell as a Platform for Understanding Membrane-Membrane Interactions.
Review in Membranes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Systematic investigation of double emulsion dewetting dynamics for the robust production of giant unilamellar vesicles.Lab on a chip · 2026Article
- Advanced biomimetic nanomedicines for cell-based therapeutics: prospects and challenges.Journal of biological engineering · 2026Review
- Transmembrane Domain Length of Influenza a Virus M2 Does Not Determine Its Non-Lipid Raft Localization.Viruses · 2026Article
- Carbon Dots and Biomimetic Membrane Systems: Mechanistic Interactions and Hybrid Nano-Lipid Platforms.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Orchestrating Self-Replication in Artificial Cells with Digital Microfluidics.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
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- Light-Triggered Protease-Mediated Release of Actin-Bound Cargo from Synthetic Cells.Advanced biology · 2025Article
- Light-triggered protease-mediated release of actin-bound cargo from synthetic cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Reconstitution of the Bacterial Glutamate Receptor Channel by Encapsulation of a Cell-Free Expression System.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2024Article
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- Engineering Functional Membrane-Membrane Interfaces by InterSpy.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023Article
- Methods to mechanically perturb and characterize GUV-based minimal cell models.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023Review
- Leakless end-to-end transport of small molecules through micron-length DNA nanochannels.Science advances · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the pursuit of understanding life, model membranes made of phospholipids were envisaged decades ago as a platform for the bottom-up study of biological processes. Micron-sized lipid vesicles have gained great acceptance as their bilayer membrane resembles the natural cell membrane. Important biological events involving membranes, such as membrane protein insertion, membrane fusion, and intercellular communication, will be highlighted in this review with recent research updates. We will first review different lipid bilayer platforms used for incorporation of integral membrane proteins and challenges associated with their functional reconstitution. We next discuss different methods for reconstitution of membrane fusion and compare their fusion efficiency. Lastly, we will highlight the importance and challenges of intercellular communication between synthetic cells and synthetic cells-to-natural cells. We will summarize the review by highlighting the challenges and opportunities associated with studying membrane-membrane interactions and possible future research directions.
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