Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Building programmable multicompartment artificial cells incorporating remotely activated protein channels using microfluidics and acoustic levitation

  • Jin Li,
  • William D. Jamieson,
  • Pantelitsa Dimitriou,
  • Wen Xu,
  • Paul Rohde,
  • Boris Martinac,
  • Matthew Baker,
  • Bruce W. Drinkwater,
  • Oliver K. Castell,
  • David A. Barrow

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31898-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Engineering micro-emulsion plays a key role in the creation of bottom-up synthetic cells. Here, authors demonstrate a droplet laboratory platform to control membrane protein gating in functional artificial cell using microfluidics and acoustic levitation.