Spontaneous Encapsulation and Concentration of Biological Macromolecules in Liposomes: An Intriguing Phenomenon and Its Relevance in Origins of Life

Molecular Simulation of Protein Encapsulation in Vesicle Formation

(2014) Bram van Hoof et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

A Remarkable Self-Organization Process as the Origin of Primitive Functional Cells

(2013) Pasquale Stano et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Unbiased Tracking of the Progression of mRNA and Protein Synthesis in Bulk and in Liposome-Confined Reactions

(2013) Pauline van Nies et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Piecing Together Cell-like Systems

(2013) Domenica Torino et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Protein Synthesizing Liposomes with External Supply of Resources

(2013) Zohreh Nourian et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Statistical analysis of discrete encapsulation of nanomaterials in colloidal capsules

(2012) Tatsuya Sakakura et al.   Analytical Methods

Semi-synthetic minimal cells as a tool for biochemical ICT

(2012) Pasquale Stano et al.   BIOSYSTEMS

Characterization of the emergent properties of a synthetic quasi-cellular system

(2012) Lorenzo Lazzerini-Ospri et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

An Open Question on the Origin of Life: The First Forms of Metabolism

(2012) Pier Luigi Luisi   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

On Protein Crowding and Bilayer Bulging in Spontaneous Vesicle Formation

(2012) Bram van Hoof et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Cell-Free Protein Synthesis inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Analyzed by Flow Cytometry

(2012) Koji Nishimura et al.   LANGMUIR

Encapsulation of Ferritin, Ribosomes, and Ribo-Peptidic Complexes Inside Liposomes: Insights Into the Origin of Metabolism

(2012) Tereza Pereira de Souza et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Spontaneous Crowding of Ribosomes and Proteins inside Vesicles: A Possible Mechanism for the Origin of Cell Metabolism

(2011) Tereza Pereira de Souza et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Cell-like systems with riboswitch controlled gene expression

(2011) Laura Martini et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Compartmentalized reactions as a case of soft-matter biotechnology: synthesis of proteins and nucleic acids inside lipid vesicles

(2011) Pasquale Stano et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Programmed Vesicle Fusion Triggers Gene Expression

(2011) Filippo Caschera et al.   LANGMUIR

Self-reproduction of supramolecular giant vesicles combined with the amplification of encapsulated DNA

(2011) Kensuke Kurihara et al.   Nature Chemistry

Assembly of MreB Filaments on Liposome Membranes: A Synthetic Biology Approach

(2011) Yusuke T. Maeda et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Building artificial cells and protocell models: Experimental approaches with lipid vesicles

(2010) Peter Walde   BIOESSAYS

Spontaneous Protein Crowding in Liposomes: A New Vista for the Origin of Cellular Metabolism

(2010) Pier Luigi Luisi et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Direct integration of cell-free-synthesized connexin-43 into liposomes and hemichannel formation

(2010) Yuki Moritani et al.   FEBS Journal

The Minimal Size of Liposome-Based Model Cells Brings about a Remarkably Enhanced Entrapment and Protein Synthesis

(2009) Tereza Pereira de Souza et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Time-Resolved Tracking of a Minimum Gene Expression System Reconstituted in Giant Liposomes

(2009) Hirohide Saito et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Protein Synthesis in Giant Liposomes Using the In Vitro Translation System of Thermococcus kodakaraensis

(2009) K. Yamaji et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOBIOSCIENCE

Thermodynamics and dynamics of the formation of spherical lipid vesicles

(2009) Ernesto Hernández-Zapata et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

Macromolecular Crowding and Confinement: Biochemical, Biophysical, and Potential Physiological Consequences

(2008) Huan-Xiang Zhou et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Replication of Genetic Information with Self-Encoded Replicase in Liposomes

(2008) Hiroshi Kita et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Encapsulation Efficiency Measured on Single Small Unilamellar Vesicles

(2008) Brian Lohse et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Quantitative Study of the Structure of Multilamellar Giant Liposomes As a Container of Protein Synthesis Reaction

(2008) Kazufumi Hosoda et al.   LANGMUIR

Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell

(2008) Sheref S. Mansy et al.   NATURE