Artificial cells: past, present and future

W Jiang, Z Wu, Z Gao, M Wan, M Zhou, C Mao… - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Artificial cells are constructed to imitate natural cells and allow researchers to explore
biological process and the origin of life. The construction methods for artificial cells, through …

Exploring emergent properties in enzymatic reaction networks: design and control of dynamic functional systems

S Ghosh, MG Baltussen, NM Ivanov, R Haije… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The intricate and complex features of enzymatic reaction networks (ERNs) play a key role in
the emergence and sustenance of life. Constructing such networks in vitro enables stepwise …

[HTML][HTML] A plant-derived natural photosynthetic system for improving cell anabolism

P Chen, X Liu, C Gu, P Zhong, N Song, M Li, Z Dai… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Insufficient intracellular anabolism is a crucial factor involved in many pathological
processes in the body,. The anabolism of intracellular substances requires the consumption …

Synthetic biology: bottom-up assembly of molecular systems

S Hirschi, TR Ward, WP Meier, DJ Müller… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

Synthetic cells: from simple bio‐inspired modules to sophisticated integrated systems

C Guindani, LC da Silva, S Cao, T Ivanov… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bottom‐up synthetic biology is the science of building systems that mimic the structure and
function of living cells from scratch. To do this, researchers combine tools from chemistry …

Liposomes and polymersomes: a comparative review towards cell mimicking

E Rideau, R Dimova, P Schwille, FR Wurm… - Chemical society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Cells are integral to all forms of life due to their compartmentalization by the plasma
membrane. However, living organisms are immensely complex. Thus there is a need for …

Light-powered CO2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts

TE Miller, T Beneyton, T Schwander, C Diehl, M Girault… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Nature integrates complex biosynthetic and energy-converting tasks within compartments
such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. Chloroplasts convert light into chemical energy …

Artificial photosynthetic cell producing energy for protein synthesis

S Berhanu, T Ueda, Y Kuruma - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Attempts to construct an artificial cell have widened our understanding of living organisms.
Many intracellular systems have been reconstructed by assembling molecules, however the …

Living material assembly of bacteriogenic protocells

C Xu, N Martin, M Li, S Mann - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Advancing the spontaneous bottom-up construction of artificial cells with high organizational
complexity and diverse functionality remains an unresolved issue at the interface between …

Light-driven CO2 sequestration in Escherichia coli to achieve theoretical yield of chemicals

G Hu, Z Li, D Ma, C Ye, L Zhang, C Gao, L Liu… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
CO2 sequestration engineering is an attractive strategy for achieving carbon-and energy-
efficient bioproduction. However, the efficiency of heterotrophic CO2 sequestration is limited …