Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Programmable synthetic cell networks regulated by tuneable reaction rates

  • Adrian Zambrano,
  • Giorgio Fracasso,
  • Mengfei Gao,
  • Martina Ugrinic,
  • Dishi Wang,
  • Dietmar Appelhans,
  • Andrew deMello,
  • T-Y. Dora Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31471-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Our understanding of how compartmentalisation and intercellular communication can tune enzyme reactions is still in its infancy. Here, the authors show that multi-enzyme reactions within semi-permeable compartments have distinct properties compared to reactions in buffer solution.