Issue 41, 2019

Chemical communication in spatially organized protocell colonies and protocell/living cell micro-arrays

Abstract

Micro-arrays of discrete or hemifused giant unilamellar lipid vesicles (GUVs) with controllable spatial geometries, lattice dimensions, trapped occupancies and compositions are prepared by acoustic standing wave patterning, and employed as platforms to implement chemical signaling in GUV colonies and protocell/living cell consortia. The methodology offers an alternative approach to GUV micro-array fabrication and provides new opportunities in protocell research and bottom-up synthetic biology.

Graphical abstract: Chemical communication in spatially organized protocell colonies and protocell/living cell micro-arrays

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
09 Sep 2019
Accepted
11 Sep 2019
First published
18 Sep 2019
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2019,10, 9446-9453

Chemical communication in spatially organized protocell colonies and protocell/living cell micro-arrays

X. Wang, L. Tian, H. Du, M. Li, W. Mu, B. W. Drinkwater, X. Han and S. Mann, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 9446 DOI: 10.1039/C9SC04522H

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