Artificial cell mimics as simplified models for the study of cell biology

Construction of membrane-bound artificial cells using microfluidics: a new frontier in bottom-up synthetic biology

(2016) Y. Elani   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Studying the effects of asymmetry on the bending rigidity of lipid membranes formed by microfluidics

(2016) K. Karamdad et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

The quest for the minimal bacterial genome

(2016) Esteban Martínez-García et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Pattern formation on membranes and its role in bacterial cell division

(2016) Simon Kretschmer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Predatory behaviour in synthetic protocell communities

(2016) Yan Qiao et al.   Nature Chemistry

Membrane mechanical properties of synthetic asymmetric phospholipid vesicles

(2016) Li Lu et al.   Soft Matter

Droplet-based microfluidics for artificial cell generation: a brief review

(2016) Chiara Martino et al.   Interface Focus

The Differential Response of Proteins to Macromolecular Crowding

(2016) Michela Candotti et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A Compartmentalized Out-of-Equilibrium Enzymatic Reaction Network for Sustained Autonomous Movement

(2016) Marlies Nijemeisland et al.   ACS Central Science

Light-activated communication in synthetic tissues

(2016) M. J. Booth et al.   Science Advances

Separation of liquid domains in model membranes induced with high hydrostatic pressure

(2015) Nicola L. C. McCarthy et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

In vitro gene expression within membrane-free coacervate protocells

(2015) T.-Y. Dora. Tang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Mechanisms of Integral Membrane Protein Insertion and Folding

(2015) Florian Cymer et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Cell-sized spherical confinement induces the spontaneous formation of contractile actomyosin rings in vitro

(2015) Makito Miyazaki et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Furrow Constriction in Animal Cell Cytokinesis

(2014) Hervé Turlier et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Geometrical Membrane Curvature as an Allosteric Regulator of Membrane Protein Structure and Function

(2014) Asger Tonnesen et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Integrating Biological Redesign: Where Synthetic Biology Came From and Where It Needs to Go

(2014) Jeffrey C. Way et al.   CELL

Multiple evidence strands suggest that there may be as few as 19 000 human protein-coding genes

(2014) Iakes Ezkurdia et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Relative Domain Folding and Stability of a Membrane Transport Protein

(2014) Nicola J. Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

3D bioprinting of tissues and organs

(2014) Sean V Murphy et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Diversity in the dynamical behaviour of a compartmentalized programmable biochemical oscillator

(2014) Maximilian Weitz et al.   Nature Chemistry

A brief history of synthetic biology

(2014) D. Ewen Cameron et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Programmable on-chip DNA compartments as artificial cells

(2014) E. Karzbrun et al.   SCIENCE

Integrating artificial with natural cells to translate chemical messages that direct E. coli behaviour

(2014) Roberta Lentini et al.   Nature Communications

Vesicle-based artificial cells as chemical microreactors with spatially segregated reaction pathways

(2014) Yuval Elani et al.   Nature Communications

Reconstitution of self-organizing protein gradients as spatial cues in cell-free systems

(2014) Katja Zieske et al.   eLife

Multiscale Computational Models of Complex Biological Systems

(2013) Joseph Walpole et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Semi-synthetic minimal cells: origin and recent developments

(2013) Pasquale Stano et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Curvature-driven membrane lipid and protein distribution

(2013) Andrew Callan-Jones et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS SCIENCE

In vitro integration of ribosomal RNA synthesis, ribosome assembly, and translation

(2013) M. C. Jewett et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Molecular crowding shapes gene expression in synthetic cellular nanosystems

(2013) Cheemeng Tan et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A Tissue-Like Printed Material

(2013) G. Villar et al.   SCIENCE

ESCRT-III Assembly and Cytokinetic Abscission Are Induced by Tension Release in the Intercellular Bridge

(2013) J. Lafaurie-Janvore et al.   SCIENCE

Impact of macromolecular crowding on DNA replication

(2013) Barak Akabayov et al.   Nature Communications

Myosin motors fragment and compact membrane-bound actin filaments

(2013) Sven K Vogel et al.   eLife

Protein Expression, Aggregation, and Triggered Release from Polymersomes as Artificial Cell-like Structures

(2012) Chiara Martino et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Membrane Shape at the Edge of the Dynamin Helix Sets Location and Duration of the Fission Reaction

(2012) Sandrine Morlot et al.   CELL

Synthetic in vitro circuits

(2012) Adam J Hockenberry et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Genome Replication, Synthesis, and Assembly of the Bacteriophage T7 in a Single Cell-Free Reaction

(2012) Jonghyeon Shin et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Droplet microfluidics for the study of artificial cells

(2011) Masahiro Takinoue et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Biomimetic tissues on a chip for drug discovery

(2011) Amir M. Ghaemmaghami et al.   DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY

Let's go bananas: revisiting the endocytic BAR code

(2011) Britta Qualmann et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

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

Cell-Free Expression and Assembly of ATP Synthase

(2011) Doreen Matthies et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Stepwise Synthesis of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles on a Microfluidic Assembly Line

(2011) Sandro Matosevic et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cell-free synthetic biology: Thinking outside the cell

(2011) C. Eric Hodgman et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Synthetic in vitro transcriptional oscillators

(2011) J. Kim et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Programming an in vitro DNA oscillator using a molecular networking strategy

(2011) K. Montagne et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Bridging membrane and cytoskeleton dynamics in the secretory and endocytic pathways

(2011) Mihaela Anitei et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Cell-Free Protein Expression under Macromolecular Crowding Conditions

(2011) Xumeng Ge et al.   PLoS One

Membrane Organization and Lipid Rafts

(2011) K. Simons et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

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

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

An E. coli Cell-Free Expression Toolbox: Application to Synthetic Gene Circuits and Artificial Cells

(2011) Jonghyeon Shin et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Microfluidic Platforms for Single-Cell Analysis

(2010) Richard N. Zare et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

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

(2010) Peter Walde   BIOESSAYS

Actin Dynamics Drive Membrane Reorganization and Scission in Clathrin-Independent Endocytosis

(2010) Winfried Römer et al.   CELL

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

(2010) Pier Luigi Luisi et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Synthetic biology: applications come of age

(2010) Ahmad S. Khalil et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Lipid Rafts As a Membrane-Organizing Principle

(2010) D. Lingwood et al.   SCIENCE

Single cell analysis: the new frontier in ‘omics’

(2010) Daojing Wang et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The ins and outs of phospholipid asymmetry in the plasma membrane: roles in health and disease

(2009) Bengt Fadeel et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Effects of Confinement on the Self-Organization of Microtubules and Motors

(2009) M. Pinot et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Emerging roles for lipids in shaping membrane-protein function

(2009) Rob Phillips et al.   NATURE

GM1 structure determines SV40-induced membrane invagination and infection

(2009) Helge Ewers et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

How curved membranes recruit amphipathic helices and protein anchoring motifs

(2009) Nikos S Hatzakis et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Structural Basis of Membrane Invagination by F-BAR Domains

(2008) Adam Frost et al.   CELL

Biophysical approaches to protein-induced membrane deformations in trafficking

(2008) Pierre Sens et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

An integrated cell-free metabolic platform for protein production and synthetic biology

(2008) Michael C Jewett et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

An in vitro microfluidic approach to generating protein-interaction networks

(2008) Doron Gerber et al.   NATURE METHODS

COPI coat assembly occurs on liquid-disordered domains and the associated membrane deformations are limited by membrane tension

(2008) J.-B. Manneville et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

α-Synuclein Selectively Binds to Anionic Phospholipids Embedded in Liquid-Disordered Domains

(2007) Martin Stöckl et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY