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SUBMITTER: Che H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5656812 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170831 41
Naturally occurring systems have the ability to self-regulate, which plays a key role in their structural and functional adaptation. The autonomous behavior in living systems is biocatalytically controlled by the continuous consumption of energy to remain in a non-equilibrium condition. In this work, we show the construction of a self-regulated "breathing" microgel that uses chemical fuels to keep the system in the out-of-equilibrium state. The enzyme urease is utilized to program a feedback-ind ...[more]