Synthetic cells with self-activating optogenetic proteins communicate with natural cells

Synthetic biology and engineering approaches are harnessed to incorporate new capabilities in synthetic cells. Here, the authors designed bioluminescent signaling mechanisms for intracellular and intercellular synthetic-to-natural cell communication.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Omer Adir, Mia R. Albalak, Ravit Abel, Lucien E. Weiss, Gal Chen, Amit Gruber, Oskar Staufer, Yaniv Kurman, Ido Kaminer, Jeny Shklover, Janna Shainsky-Roitman, Ilia Platzman, Lior Gepstein, Yoav Shechtman, Benjamin A. Horwitz, Avi Schroeder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29871-8