Giant vesicles: a powerful tool to reconstruct bacterial division assemblies in cell-like compartments

Editorial: Chemistry Needed: Synthetic Biology as a New Incentive for Interdisciplinarity

(2013) Petra Schwille   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Excess Membrane Synthesis Drives a Primitive Mode of Cell Proliferation

(2013) Romain Mercier et al.   CELL

Semi-synthetic minimal cells: origin and recent developments

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

Bacterial Division Proteins FtsZ and ZipA Induce Vesicle Shrinkage and Cell Membrane Invagination

(2013) Elisa J. Cabré et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Combined analytical ultracentrifugation, light scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy studies on the functional associations of the bacterial division FtsZ protein

(2013) Begoña Monterroso et al.   METHODS

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

(2013) J. Errington   Open Biology

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

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

The physiology of bacterial cell division

(2012) Alexander J. F. Egan et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Membrane reconstitution of FtsZ–ZipA complex inside giant spherical vesicles made of E. coli lipids: Large membrane dilation and analysis of membrane plasticity

(2012) I. López-Montero et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

How did bacterial ancestors reproduce? Lessons from L-form cells and giant lipid vesicles

(2012) Yves Briers et al.   BIOESSAYS

Synthesizing artificial cells from giant unilamellar vesicles: State-of-the art in the development of microfluidic technology

(2012) Sandro Matosevic   BIOESSAYS

Negative-Stain Electron Microscopy of Inside-Out FtsZ Rings Reconstituted on Artificial Membrane Tubules Show Ribbons of Protofilaments

(2012) Sara L. Milam et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Giant Vesicles “Colonies”: A Model for Primitive Cell Communities

(2012) Paolo Carrara et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Efficient Preparation of Giant Vesicles as Biomimetic Compartment Systems with High Entrapment Yields for Biomacromolecules

(2012) Takashi Kuroiwa et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Bacterial cytokinesis: From Z ring to divisome

(2012) Joe Lutkenhaus et al.   Cytoskeleton

Membrane bending by protein–protein crowding

(2012) Jeanne C. Stachowiak et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

RNA catalysis through compartmentalization

(2012) Christopher A. Strulson et al.   Nature Chemistry

Isolation, Characterization and Lipid-Binding Properties of the Recalcitrant FtsA Division Protein from Escherichia coli

(2012) Ariadna Martos et al.   PLoS One

Coupling of the fusion and budding of giant phospholipid vesicles containing macromolecules

(2012) H. Terasawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Beyond Oil and Water--Phase Transitions in Cells

(2012) A. A. Hyman et al.   SCIENCE

Towards a bottom-up reconstitution of bacterial cell division

(2012) Ariadna Martos et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Thermodynamics and Mechanics of Membrane Curvature Generation and Sensing by Proteins and Lipids

(2011) Tobias Baumgart et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Reconstitution and Organization ofEscherichia coliProto-ring Elements (FtsZ and FtsA) inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Obtained from Bacterial Inner Membranes

(2011) Mercedes Jiménez et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Transformation of ActoHMM Assembly Confined in Cell-Sized Liposome

(2011) Kingo Takiguchi et al.   LANGMUIR

Encapsulation of Active Cytoskeletal Protein Networks in Cell-Sized Liposomes

(2011) Feng-Ching Tsai et al.   LANGMUIR

Inside-out Z rings - constriction with and without GTP hydrolysis

(2011) Masaki Osawa et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Development of an artificial cell, from self-organization to computation and self-reproduction

(2011) Vincent Noireaux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forming giant vesicles with controlled membrane composition, asymmetry, and contents

(2011) D. L. Richmond et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synthetic Biology: Integrated Gene Circuits

(2011) N. Nandagopal et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Microdroplets in Microfluidics: An Evolving Platform for Discoveries in Chemistry and Biology

(2010) Ashleigh B. Theberge et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

External Lipid PI3P Mediates Entry of Eukaryotic Pathogen Effectors into Plant and Animal Host Cells

(2010) Shiv D. Kale et al.   CELL

Giant Vesicles: Preparations and Applications

(2010) Peter Walde et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

FtsZ in Bacterial Cytokinesis: Cytoskeleton and Force Generator All in One

(2010) H. P. Erickson et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Role of Escherichia coli FtsN protein in the assembly and stability of the cell division ring

(2010) Ana Isabel Rico et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Steric confinement of proteins on lipid membranes can drive curvature and tubulation

(2010) Jeanne C. Stachowiak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Strong FtsZ is with the force: mechanisms to constrict bacteria

(2010) Jesús Mingorance et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Microfluidic Formation of Monodisperse, Cell-Sized, and Unilamellar Vesicles

(2009) Sadao Ota et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthetic biology of minimal systems

(2009) Petra Schwille et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Curved FtsZ protofilaments generate bending forces on liposome membranes

(2009) Masaki Osawa et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Films of Agarose Enable Rapid Formation of Giant Liposomes in Solutions of Physiologic Ionic Strength

(2009) Kim S. Horger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Bacterial cell division: assembly, maintenance and disassembly of the Z ring

(2009) David W. Adams et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Biology under construction: in vitro reconstitution of cellular function

(2009) Allen P. Liu et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

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

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

Reconstitution and Anchoring of Cytoskeleton inside Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

(2008) Dennis Merkle et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Giant unilamellar vesicle formation under physiologically relevant conditions

(2008) Tanja Pott et al.   CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF LIPIDS

Macromolecular Crowding Improves Polymer Encapsulation within Giant Lipid Vesicles

(2008) Lisa M. Dominak et al.   LANGMUIR

Novel Method for Obtaining Homogeneous Giant Vesicles from a Monodisperse Water-in-Oil Emulsion Prepared with a Microfluidic Device

(2008) Shinji Sugiura et al.   LANGMUIR

Droplet interface bilayers

(2008) Hagan Bayley et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Membrane-induced bundling of actin filaments

(2008) Allen P. Liu et al.   Nature Physics

Unilamellar vesicle formation and encapsulation by microfluidic jetting

(2008) J. C. Stachowiak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstitution of Contractile FtsZ Rings in Liposomes

(2008) M. Osawa et al.   SCIENCE