The Minimal Cell The Biophysics of Cell Compartment and the Origin of Cell Functionality /
In the last ten years there has been a considerable increase of interest on the notion of the minimal cell. With this term we usually mean a cell-like structure containing the minimal and sufficient number of components to be defined as alive, or at least capable of displaying some of the fundamenta...
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| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2011.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword, Pier Luigi Luisi
- Part I The Physical Aspects: 1 Towards a minimal cytoplasm, Jacqueline D. Keighron and Christine D. Keating
- 2 Evolution of the cell’s mechanical design, David Boal and Cameron Forde
- 3 On the minimal requirements for the emergence of cellular crowding, Luis Acerenza and Martín Graña
- 4 How small is small? A biophysical chemists thoughts about the lower limits of cell sizes, Peter B. Moore
- 5 Biochemical reactions in the crowded and confined physiological environment: Physical chemistry meets synthetic biology, Allen P. Minton and Germán Rivas-Caballero
- Part II Steps towards Functionality: 6 The influence of environment and metabolic capacity on the size of a microorganism, W. Andrew Lancaster and Michael W. W. Adams
- 7 The minimal cell and life’s origin: Role of water and aqueous interfaces, Gerald H. Pollack, Xavier Figueroa and Qing Zhao
- 8 Membrane self-assembly processes: Steps towards the first cellular life, Pierre-Alain Monnard and David W. Deamer
- 9 Approaches to building chemical cells/chells: Examples of relevant mechanistic ‘couples’, Paul M. Gardner and Benjamin G. Davis
- Part III Steps towards Minimal Life: 10 Construction of an in vitro model of a living cellular system, Kenichi Yoshikawa, Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Kanta Tsumoto, Kingo Takiguchi
- 11 New and unexpected insights on the formation of protocells from a synthetic biology approach: The case of entrapment of biomacromolecules and protein synthesis inside vesicles, Pasquale Stano, Tereza Pereira de Souza, Matteo Allegretti, Yutetsu Kuruma, Pier Luigi Luisi
- 12 Liposomes mediated synthesis of membrane proteins, Yutetsu Kuruma
- 13 Giant unilamellar vesicles: From minimal membrane systems to minimal cells?, Petra Schwille
- 14 Theoretical approaches to ribocell modeling, Fabio Mavelli
- 15 Evolvability and self-replication of genetic information in liposomes, Tetsuya Yomo, Tomoaki Matsuura, Norikazu Ichihashi, Takeshi Sunami, Hiroshi Kita, Hiroaki Suzuki
- Index.
