A recursive vesicle-based model protocell with a primitive model cell cycle

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kurihara, Kensuke ^a,d,e   Okura, Yusaku ^a   Matsuo, Muneyuki ^a   Toyota, Taro ^a   Suzuki, Kentaro ^a,b   Sugawara, Tadashi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOYOTA PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DNA; EVOLUTION; LIPID; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GIANT VESICLE BASED MODEL PROTOCELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID VESICLE; NEWBORN; PARENT; PH; ARTIFICIAL CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84942942653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9352     Document Type: Article

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