Progress toward synthetic cells

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 615-640

  Blain, J Craig ^a   Szostak, Jack W ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial life; evolution; origin of life; protocells; self replication

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; LIPID; MAGNESIUM;

ARTIFICIAL CELL; BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIVISION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE REPLICATION; GENOME; LIPID VESICLE; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA REPLICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; BIOLOGY; CELL WALL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA REPLICATION; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROLYSIS; LIPIDS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 84902213412     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-080411-124036     Document Type: Review

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