Proliferating coacervate droplets as the missing link between chemistry and biology in the origins of life

Multiphase Complex Coacervate Droplets

(2020) Tiemei Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self‐Emergent Protocells Generated in an Aqueous Solution with Binary Macromolecules through Liquid‐Liquid Phase Separation

(2020) Hiroki Sakuta et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Environment-Sensitive Intelligent Self-Reproducing Artificial Cell with a Modification-Active Lipo-Deoxyribozyme

(2020) Muneyuki Matsuo et al.   Micromachines

Protoenzymes: The Case of Hyperbranched Polymer-Scaffolded ZnS Nanocrystals

(2020) Irena Mamajanov et al.   Life-Basel

Polyelectrolyte Complexation of Oligonucleotides by Charged Hydrophobic—Neutral Hydrophilic Block Copolymers

(2019) Alexander Marras et al.   Polymers

A chemically fuelled self-replicator

(2019) Sarah M. Morrow et al.   Nature Communications

DNA-based communication in populations of synthetic protocells

(2019) Alex Joesaar et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Controlling the Kinetics of Self-Reproducing Micelles by Catalyst Compartmentalization in a Biphasic System

(2019) Elias A. J. Post et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Dynamic synthetic cells based on liquid‐liquid phase separation

(2019) Nicolas Martin   CHEMBIOCHEM

Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at the origins of life

(2019) Tony Z. Jia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A sustainable self-reproducing liposome consisting of a synthetic phospholipid

(2019) Muneyuki Matsuo et al.   CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF LIPIDS

Dissipative adaptation in driven self-assembly leading to self-dividing fibrils

(2018) Esra te Brinke et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Imaging dynamic and selective low-complexity domain interactions that control gene transcription

(2018) Shasha Chong et al.   SCIENCE

Reversible generation of coacervate droplets in an enzymatic network

(2018) Karina K. Nakashima et al.   Soft Matter

Self-selection of dissipative assemblies driven by primitive chemical reaction networks

(2018) Marta Tena-Solsona et al.   Nature Communications

Acetylation of intrinsically disordered regions regulates phase separation

(2018) Makoto Saito et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Cell size control driven by the circadian clock and environment in cyanobacteria

(2018) Bruno M. C. Martins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Iron catalysis at the origin of life

(2017) Eloi Camprubi et al.   IUBMB LIFE

Insights into Thiol–Aromatic Interactions: A Stereoelectronic Basis for S–H/π Interactions

(2017) Christina R. Forbes et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Exponential growth and selection in self-replicating materials from DNA origami rafts

(2017) Xiaojin He et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Foldamer hypothesis for the growth and sequence differentiation of prebiotic polymers

(2017) Elizaveta Guseva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptive artificial evolution of droplet protocells in a 3D-printed fluidic chemorobotic platform with configurable environments

(2017) Juan Manuel Parrilla-Gutierrez et al.   Nature Communications

Predatory behaviour in synthetic protocell communities

(2016) Yan Qiao et al.   Nature Chemistry

Non-equilibrium behaviour in coacervate-based protocells under electric-field-induced excitation

(2016) Yudan Yin et al.   Nature Communications

Self-replication of DNA rings

(2015) Junghoon Kim et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A recursive vesicle-based model protocell with a primitive model cell cycle

(2015) Kensuke Kurihara et al.   Nature Communications

Fatty acid membrane assembly on coacervate microdroplets as a step towards a hybrid protocell model

(2014) T-Y. Dora Tang et al.   Nature Chemistry

Development of surfactant coacervation in aqueous solution

(2014) Meina Wang et al.   Soft Matter

Small-molecule uptake in membrane-free peptide/nucleotide protocells

(2013) T.-Y. Dora Tang et al.   Soft Matter

L-form bacteria, cell walls and the origins of life

(2013) J. Errington   Open Biology

Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

(2012) A. Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) Kensuke Kurihara et al.   Nature Chemistry

Primordial synthesis of amines and amino acids in a 1958 Miller H2S-rich spark discharge experiment

(2011) E. T. Parker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Autocatalytic membrane-amplification on a pre-existing vesicular surface

(2010) Hiroshi Takahashi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Self-Propelled Oil Droplets Consuming “Fuel” Surfactant

(2009) Taro Toyota et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Coupled Growth and Division of Model Protocell Membranes

(2009) Ting F. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Life without a wall or division machine in Bacillus subtilis

(2009) M. Leaver et al.   NATURE