Issue 64, 2019

Light controlled cell-to-cell adhesion and chemical communication in minimal synthetic cells

Abstract

Decorating GUVs, used as minimal synthetic cell models, with photoswitchable proteins allows controlling the adhesion between them and their assembly into multicellular structures with light. Thereby, the chemical communication between a sender and a receiver GUV, which strongly depends on their spatial proximity, can also be photoregulated.

Graphical abstract: Light controlled cell-to-cell adhesion and chemical communication in minimal synthetic cells

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Jun 2019
Accepted
12 Jul 2019
First published
12 Jul 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 9448-9451

Light controlled cell-to-cell adhesion and chemical communication in minimal synthetic cells

T. Chakraborty, S. M. Bartelt, J. Steinkühler, R. Dimova and S. V. Wegner, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 9448 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC04768A

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