The Minimal Cell : The Biophysics of Cell Compartment and the Origin of Cell Functionality - Luisi, Pier Luigi; Stano, Pasquale; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Foreword, Pier Luigi Luisi -- Part I The Physical Aspects: 1 Towards a minimal cytoplasm, Jacqueline D. Keighron and Christine D. Keating -- 2 Evolution of the cell's mechanical design, David Boal and Cameron Forde -- 3 On the minimal requirements for the emergence of cellular crowding, Luis Acerenza and Martín Graña -- 4 How small is small? A biophysical chemists thoughts about the lower limits of cell sizes, Peter B. Moore -- 5 Biochemical reactions in the crowded and confined physiological environment: Physical chemistry meets synthetic biology, Allen P. Minton and Germán Rivas-Caballero -- Part II Steps towards Functionality: 6 The influence of environment and metabolic capacity on the size of a microorganism, W. Andrew Lancaster and Michael W. W. Adams -- 7 The minimal cell and life's origin: Role of water and aqueous interfaces, Gerald H. Pollack, Xavier Figueroa and Qing Zhao -- 8 Membrane self-assembly processes: Steps towards the first cellular life, Pierre-Alain Monnard and David W. Deamer -- 9 Approaches to building chemical cells/chells: Examples of relevant mechanistic 'couples', Paul M. Gardner and Benjamin G. Davis -- Part III Steps towards Minimal Life: 10 Construction of an in vitro model of a living cellular system, Kenichi Yoshikawa, Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Kanta Tsumoto, Kingo Takiguchi -- 11 New and unexpected insights on the formation of protocells from a synthetic biology approach: The case of entrapment of biomacromolecules and protein synthesis inside vesicles, Pasquale Stano, Tereza Pereira de Souza, Matteo Allegretti, Yutetsu Kuruma, Pier Luigi Luisi -- 12 Liposomes mediated synthesis of membrane proteins, Yutetsu Kuruma -- 13 Giant unilamellar vesicles: From minimal membrane systems to minimal cells?, Petra Schwille -- 14 Theoretical approaches to ribocell modeling, Fabio Mavelli -- 15 Evolvability and self-replication of genetic information in liposomes, Tetsuya Yomo, Tomoaki Matsuura, Norikazu Ichihashi, Takeshi Sunami, Hiroshi Kita, Hiroaki Suzuki -- Index.
Keywords: Medicine; Biotechnology; Cell biology; Gene expression; Biomedicine, general; Biotechnology; Cell Biology; Gene Expression