Complex Coacervate Materials as Artificial Cells

DNA‐mediated protein shuttling between coacervate‐based artificial cells

(2022) Tsuyoshi Mashima et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Charge-density reduction promotes ribozyme activity in RNA–peptide coacervates via RNA fluidization and magnesium partitioning

(2022) Juan M. Iglesias-Artola et al.   Nature Chemistry

Cell-Free Gene Expression Dynamics in Synthetic Cell Populations

(2022) David T. Gonzales et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Size effects of discoidal PLGA nanoconstructs in Pickering emulsion stabilization

(2022) Alexander B. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE

Evolution and Single‐Droplet Analysis of Fuel‐Driven Compartments by Droplet‐Based Microfluidics

(2022) Alexander M. Bergmann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Peptide‐Based Coacervate‐Core Vesicles with Semipermeable Membranes

(2022) Manzar Abbas et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineering materials for artificial cells

(2022) Lalita Tanwar et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS SCIENCE

Phase-specific RNA accumulation and duplex thermodynamics in multiphase coacervate models for membraneless organelles

(2022) Saehyun Choi et al.   Nature Chemistry

Manipulation of coacervate droplets with an electric field

(2022) Aman Agrawal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Signal-processing and adaptive prototissue formation in metabolic DNA protocells

(2022) Avik Samanta et al.   Nature Communications

Hydrogels as functional components in artificial cell systems

(2022) Matthew E. Allen et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Living material assembly of bacteriogenic protocells

(2022) Can Xu et al.   NATURE

Signal processing and generation of bioactive nitric oxide in a model prototissue

(2022) Songyang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Harnessing Endogenous Stimuli for Responsive Materials in Theranostics

(2021) Alexander B. Cook et al.   ACS Nano

Phospholipid Membrane Formation Templated by Coacervate Droplets

(2021) Fatma Pir Cakmak et al.   LANGMUIR

Towards a synthetic cell cycle

(2021) Lorenzo Olivi et al.   Nature Communications

Active coacervate droplets are protocells that grow and resist Ostwald ripening

(2021) Karina K. Nakashima et al.   Nature Communications

Synthesis of lipid membranes for artificial cells

(2021) Kira A. Podolsky et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Programmable Zwitterionic Droplets as Biomolecular Sorters and Model of Membraneless Organelles

(2021) Umberto Capasso Palmiero et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Synthetic Cells: From Simple Bio‐Inspired Modules to Sophisticated Integrated Systems

(2021) Camila Guindani et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Engineering transient dynamics of artificial cells by stochastic distribution of enzymes

(2021) Shidong Song et al.   Nature Communications

Chemical communication at the synthetic cell/living cell interface

(2021) Vincent Mukwaya et al.   Communications Chemistry

Reversible pH-Responsive Coacervate Formation in Lipid Vesicles Activates Dormant Enzymatic Reactions

(2020) Celina Love et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Multiphase Complex Coacervate Droplets

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

Synthetic Supramolecular Systems in Life-like Materials and Protocell Models

(2020) Ignacio Insua et al.   Chem

Enzyme-mediated nitric oxide production in vasoactive erythrocyte membrane-enclosed coacervate protocells

(2020) Songyang Liu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Cell mimicry as a bottom‐up strategy for hierarchical engineering of nature‐inspired entities

(2020) Xiaomin Qian et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology

Prebiotically-relevant low polyion multivalency can improve functionality of membraneless compartments

(2020) Fatma Pir Cakmak et al.   Nature Communications

DNA-based communication in populations of synthetic protocells

(2019) Alex Joesaar et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Considerations and Challenges in Studying Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Biomolecular Condensates

(2019) Simon Alberti et al.   CELL

Branched and Dendritic Polymer Architectures: Functional Nanomaterials for Therapeutic Delivery

(2019) Alexander B. Cook et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Spatial Positioning and Chemical Coupling in Coacervate-in-Proteinosome Protocells

(2019) Richard Booth et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

One-Pot Assembly of Complex Giant Unilamellar Vesicle-Based Synthetic Cells

(2019) Kerstin Göpfrich et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Mimicking Cellular Compartmentalization in a Hierarchical Protocell through Spontaneous Spatial Organization

(2019) Alexander F. Mason et al.   ACS Central Science

Controlling Complex Coacervation via Random Polyelectrolyte Sequences

(2019) Artem M. Rumyantsev et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Long-lived protein expression in hydrogel particles: towards artificial cells

(2018) Xiaoyu Zhou et al.   Chemical Science

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of a Copolymer-Stabilized Coacervate Protocell

(2017) Alexander F. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Sequential bottom-up assembly of mechanically stabilized synthetic cells by microfluidics

(2017) Marian Weiss et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Sequence and entropy-based control of complex coacervates

(2017) Li-Wei Chang et al.   Nature Communications

Growth and division of active droplets provides a model for protocells

(2016) David Zwicker et al.   Nature Physics

Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions

(2015) Clifford P. Brangwynne et al.   Nature Physics

Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biology

(2014) Anthony A. Hyman et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

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

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

Protein Encapsulation via Polypeptide Complex Coacervation

(2014) Katie A. Black et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Interfacial assembly of protein–polymer nano-conjugates into stimulus-responsive biomimetic protocells

(2013) Xin Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Polyelectrolyte complexes: Bulk phases and colloidal systems

(2011) Jasper van der Gucht et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Peptide–nucleotide microdroplets as a step towards a membrane-free protocell model

(2011) Shogo Koga et al.   Nature Chemistry

Sugar synthesis in a protocellular model leads to a cell signalling response in bacteria

(2009) Paul M. Gardner et al.   Nature Chemistry