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  • Biochemistry
  • Materials Science

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  • Precise control of in vitro enzymatic reactions is key for bottom-up artificial cell design.
  • Current methods lack membrane-bound compartments for complex, multi-scale biological information.
  • Designing higher-order artificial cell communities remains a challenge.

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  • To develop a method for spatiotemporal control of enzymatic reactions in synthetic cells.
  • To engineer artificial cell communities capable of mimicking cellular communication.
  • To create out-of-equilibrium systems within synthetic cells.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing droplet microfluidics to synthesize polymersomes with tunable molecular permeability.
  • Implementing competing reverse enzymatic reactions to control substrate availability.
  • Exploiting differential membrane permeability for selective molecular transport.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated fuel-driven formation of sub-microcompartments within polymersomes.
  • Achieved spatiotemporal control of enzymatic reactions using external signals and fuels.
  • Successfully constructed a programmable enzymatic reaction network mimicking cellular communication.

Conclusions:

  • Droplet microfluidics enables the creation of sophisticated artificial cell communities.
  • Polymersomes with distinct permeability offer precise control over enzymatic reactions.
  • This platform facilitates the reconstitution of spatiotemporal biological information and cellular communication.