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Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Jun 14;52(50):7786-9. doi: 10.1039/c6cc01867j.

Transformation of oil droplets into giant vesicles.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Li Sheng, Kensuke Kurihara

Affiliations

  1. Department of Bioorganization Research, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan and Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 38 Nishigo-naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan. [email protected].
  2. Department of Bioorganization Research, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan and Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 38 Nishigo-naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan. [email protected] and Research Center for Complex Systems Biology, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.

PMID: 27152371 DOI: 10.1039/c6cc01867j

Abstract

We propose a protocell model in which compartments are constructed via a new process involving the formation of robust vesicles using an autocatalytic, self-reproducing oil droplet system as a 'scaffold'.

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