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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2023

Autonomic Integration in Nested Protocell Communities.

Zhuping Yin, Ning Gao, Can Xu, Mei Li, Stephen Mann

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Coacervate Vesicles as Adaptive Platforms for Synthetic Biology and Smart Materials.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  6. Adaptive ATP-induced molecular condensation in membranized protocells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Programmable Enzymatic Reaction Network in Artificial Cell-Like Polymersomes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhuping YinCentre for Protolife Research, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8319-0553
Ning GaoCentre for Protolife Research, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
Can XuCentre for Protolife Research, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
Mei LiCentre for Protolife Research, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
Stephen MannCentre for Protolife Research, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3012-8964
University of Bristol · GBShanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The self-driven organization of model protocells into higher-order nested cytomimetic systems with coordinated structural and functional relationships offers a step toward the autonomic implementation of artificial multicellularity. Here, we describe an endosymbiotic-like pathway in which proteinosomes are captured within membranized alginate/silk fibroin coacervate vesicles by guest-mediated reconfiguration of the host protocells. We demonstrate that interchange of coacervate vesicle and droplet morphologies through proteinosome-mediated urease/glucose oxidase activity produces discrete nested communities capable of integrated catalytic activity and selective disintegration. The self-driving capacity is modulated by an internalized fuel-driven process using starch hydrolases sequestered within the host coacervate phase, and structural stabilization of the integrated protocell populations can be achieved by on-site enzyme-mediated matrix reinforcement involving dipeptide supramolecular assembly or tyramine-alginate covalent cross-linking. Our work highlights a semi-autonomous mechanism for constructing symbiotic cell-like nested communities and provides opportunities for the development of reconfigurable cytomimetic materials with structural, functional, and organizational complexity.

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Identifiers

PMID37369121
PMCPMC10347549
OpenAlexW4382318346

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