Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Catalytic processing in ruthenium-based polyoxometalate coacervate protocells

  • Pierangelo Gobbo,
  • Liangfei Tian,
  • B. V. V. S Pavan Kumar,
  • Samuel Turvey,
  • Mattia Cattelan,
  • Avinash J. Patil,
  • Mauro Carraro,
  • Marcella Bonchio,
  • Stephen Mann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13759-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The development of microscale materials with cell-like functions and collective behaviors is an important milestone in bottom-up synthetic biology. Here the authors employ a bio-inspired inorganic synzyme to construct a micro-compartment with multi-functional activity providing a step towards the development of protocell reaction networks.