Experimental Models of Primitive Cellular Compartments: Encapsulation, Growth, and Division

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5645, 2003, Pages 618-622

  Hanczyc, Martin M ^a   Fujikawa, Shelly M ^a   Szostak, Jack W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; CELLS; CLAY; ENCAPSULATION; EXTRUSION; FATTY ACIDS; MICELLES; POLYMERIZATION; RNA;

MEMBRANE VESICLES;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

FATTY ACID; MINERAL; MONTMORILLONITE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE;

CATALYSIS; MONTMORILLONITE; RNA;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL GROWTH; CLAY; ENERGY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICELLE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADSORPTION; ALUMINUM SILICATES; BENTONITE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; LIPID BILAYERS; MICELLES; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYRISTIC ACID; RNA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0142147270     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089904     Document Type: Article

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