A fundamental evolutionary step in the onset of living cells is thought to be the spontaneous formation of lipid vesicles (liposomes) in the pre-biotic mixture. Even though it is well known that hydrophobic forces drive spontaneous liposome formation in aqueous solutions, how the components of the earliest biochemical pathways were trapped and concentrated in the forming vesicles is an issue that still needs to be clarified. In recent years, some authors carried out a set of experiments where a unexpectedly high amount of solutes were found in a small number of liposomes, spontaneously formed in aqueous solution. A great number of empty liposomes were found in the same experiments and the global observed behavior was that of a distribution ...
Artificial protocellular compartments and lipid vesicles have been used as model systems to understa...
Background: The process of solutes entrapment during liposomes formation is interesting for the inve...
AbstractA requirement for concentrated and chemically homogeneous pools of molecular building blocks...
A fundamental evolutionary step in the onset of living cells is thought to be the spontaneous format...
One of the most ambitious goals of synthetic biology is to construct cell-like systems of minimal co...
How did primitive living cells originate? The formation of early cells, which were probably solute-f...
This paper revisits long-standing ideas about biological membranes in the context of an equally long...
AbstractDilution of a fatty acid micellar solution at basic pH toward neutrality results in spontane...
Recent experimental work in the field of synthetic protocell biology has shown that prebiotic vesicl...
The transition from independent molecular entities to cellular structures with integrated behaviors...
The encapsulation of transcription-translation (TX-TL) machinery inside lipid vesicles and water-in-...
Lipids are essential constituents of contemporary living cells, serving as structural molecules that...
Conceptually, the most robust way to explain how primitive cell-like structures acquired and increas...
Abstract Background The process of solutes entrapment during liposomes formation is interesting for ...
Spontaneous aggregation of lipids into bilayers and vesicles is a key property for the formation of ...
Artificial protocellular compartments and lipid vesicles have been used as model systems to understa...
Background: The process of solutes entrapment during liposomes formation is interesting for the inve...
AbstractA requirement for concentrated and chemically homogeneous pools of molecular building blocks...
A fundamental evolutionary step in the onset of living cells is thought to be the spontaneous format...
One of the most ambitious goals of synthetic biology is to construct cell-like systems of minimal co...
How did primitive living cells originate? The formation of early cells, which were probably solute-f...
This paper revisits long-standing ideas about biological membranes in the context of an equally long...
AbstractDilution of a fatty acid micellar solution at basic pH toward neutrality results in spontane...
Recent experimental work in the field of synthetic protocell biology has shown that prebiotic vesicl...
The transition from independent molecular entities to cellular structures with integrated behaviors...
The encapsulation of transcription-translation (TX-TL) machinery inside lipid vesicles and water-in-...
Lipids are essential constituents of contemporary living cells, serving as structural molecules that...
Conceptually, the most robust way to explain how primitive cell-like structures acquired and increas...
Abstract Background The process of solutes entrapment during liposomes formation is interesting for ...
Spontaneous aggregation of lipids into bilayers and vesicles is a key property for the formation of ...
Artificial protocellular compartments and lipid vesicles have been used as model systems to understa...
Background: The process of solutes entrapment during liposomes formation is interesting for the inve...
AbstractA requirement for concentrated and chemically homogeneous pools of molecular building blocks...