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SUBMITTER: Yin Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4756681 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yin Yudan Y Niu Lin L Zhu Xiaocui X Zhao Meiping M Zhang Zexin Z Mann Stephen S Liang Dehai D
Nature communications 20160215
Although numerous strategies are now available to generate rudimentary forms of synthetic cell-like entities, minimal progress has been made in the sustained excitation of artificial protocells under non-equilibrium conditions. Here we demonstrate that the electric field energization of coacervate microdroplets comprising polylysine and short single strands of DNA generates membrane-free protocells with complex, dynamical behaviours. By confining the droplets within a microfluidic channel and ap ...[more]