Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

A synthetic metabolic network for physicochemical homeostasis

  • Tjeerd Pols,
  • Hendrik R. Sikkema,
  • Bauke F. Gaastra,
  • Jacopo Frallicciardi,
  • Wojciech M. Śmigiel,
  • Shubham Singh,
  • Bert Poolman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12287-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Functional out-of-equilibrium networks are typical of living cells. Here the authors report the construction of a sustained ATP production system in vesicles with controlled energy dissipation and physicochemical homeostasis.