Piecing together cell-like systems

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1751-1757

  Torino, Domenica ^a   Martini, Laura ^a   Mansy, Sheref S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell like; Minimal cell; Origin of life; Protocell; Riboswitch; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY;

CELL-LIKE; CELLULAR SYSTEM; GENOMICS; MINIMAL CELL; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PROTOCELLS; REPLICATION PROTEINS; RIBOSWITCHES; SIMPLE++; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CELLS;

EID: 84881341715     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/13852728113179990082     Document Type: Article

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