Out-of-equilibrium microcompartments for the bottom-up integration of metabolic functions

Out-of-equilibrium microcompartments for the bottom-up integration of metabolic functions

Generating artificial cells able to carry out metabolic activities out-of-equilibrium is a current challenge in synthetic biology. Here the authors use a microfluidic platform for integration and analysis of minimal metabolic reactions in artificial microcompartments formed of water-in-oil droplets.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thomas Beneyton, Dorothee Krafft, Claudia Bednarz, Christin Kleineberg, Christian Woelfer, Ivan Ivanov, Tanja Vidaković-Koch, Kai Sundmacher, Jean-Christophe Baret
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04825-1
Description
Summary:Generating artificial cells able to carry out metabolic activities out-of-equilibrium is a current challenge in synthetic biology. Here the authors use a microfluidic platform for integration and analysis of minimal metabolic reactions in artificial microcompartments formed of water-in-oil droplets.
ISSN:2041-1723

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