ReviewThe journal of physical chemistry letters2024
Living Cell as a Self-Synchronized Chemical Reactor.
Review in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- A synthetic cell microreactor with two types of interacting dynamic DNA-based pores.Nature chemistry · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal Control of the Formation of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes in Liposome-Based Nanoreactors.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Organelle-Specific Smart Supramolecular Materials for Bioimaging and Theranostics Application.Topics in current chemistry (Cham) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Thermal fluctuations power all processes inside living cells. Therefore, these processes are inherently random. However, myriad multistep chemical reactions act in concerto inside a cell, finally leading to this chemical reactor's self-replication. We speculate that an underlying mechanism in nature must exist that allows all of these reactions to synchronize at multiple time and length scales, overcoming in this way the random nature of any single process in a cell. This Perspective discusses what type of research is needed to understand this undiscovered synchronization law.
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