Physical Routes to Primitive Cells: An Experimental Model Based on the Spontaneous Entrapment of Enzymes inside Micrometer-Sized Liposomes

Physical Routes to Primitive Cells: An Experimental Model Based on the Spontaneous Entrapment of Enzymes inside Micrometer-Sized Liposomes

How did primitive living cells originate? The formation of early cells, which were probably solute-filled vesicles capable of performing a rudimentary metabolism (and possibly self-reproduction), is still one of the big unsolved questions in origin of life. We have recently used lipid vesicles (lipo...

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Main Authors: Erica D'Aguanno, Emiliano Altamura, Fabio Mavelli, Alfred Fahr, Pasquale Stano, Pier Luigi Luisi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-03-01
Series:Life
Subjects:
carbonic anhydrase
confocal microscopy
crowding
spontaneous concentration
enzymes
lipid vesicles (liposomes)
primitive cells
proteinase K
self-organization
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/5/1/969

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