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The integration of active cell machinery with synthetic building blocks is the bridge toward developing synthetic cells with biological functions and beyond. Self‐replication is one of the most important tasks of living systems, and various complex machineries exist to execute it. In Escherichia coli, a contractile division ring is positioned to mid‐cell by concentration oscillations of self‐organizing...
Bacterial Cell Division
In article number 2202364, Petra Schwille, Cesar Rodriguez‐Emmenegger, and co‐workers show the reconstitution of a bacterial divisome in fully synthetic dendrimersomes. The fine‐tuning of interactions between the active cell machinery and synthetic membrane enables the reproduction of the natural dynamic behavior in a synthetic system. This constitutes a breakthrough in the...
In article number 1906259, Petra Schwille and co‐workers demonstrate 3D printing of a microscale device made of a biocompatible protein hydrogel that can be used to induce reversible shape changes in trapped vesicles by pH‐stimulus. These soft material‐based cages provide an artificial microenvironment, which may in the future allow us to investigate how synthetic cells react to and interact with...
Giant unilamellar phospholipid vesicles are attractive starting points for constructing minimal living cells from the bottom‐up. Their membranes are compatible with many physiologically functional modules and act as selective barriers, while retaining a high morphological flexibility. However, their spherical shape renders them rather inappropriate to study phenomena that are based on distinct cell...
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