Building programmable multicompartment artificial cells incorporating remotely activated protein channels using microfluidics and acoustic levitation

Engineering micro-emulsion plays a key role in the creation of bottom-up synthetic cells. Here, authors demonstrate a droplet laboratory platform to control membrane protein gating in functional artificial cell using microfluidics and acoustic levitation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jin Li, William D. Jamieson, Pantelitsa Dimitriou, Wen Xu, Paul Rohde, Boris Martinac, Matthew Baker, Bruce W. Drinkwater, Oliver K. Castell, David A. Barrow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31898-w