Sequestration of Proteins by Fatty Acid Coacervates for Their Encapsulation within Vesicles
Language
en
Article de revue
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Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2016-07-22, vol. 55, n° 43, p. pp. 13475-13479
Wiley-VCH Verlag
English Abstract
Encapsulating biological materials in lipid vesicles is of interest for mimicking cells; however, except in some particular cases, such processes do not occur spontaneously. Herein, we developed a simple and robust method ...Read more >
Encapsulating biological materials in lipid vesicles is of interest for mimicking cells; however, except in some particular cases, such processes do not occur spontaneously. Herein, we developed a simple and robust method for encapsulating proteins in fatty acid vesicles in high yields. Fatty acid based, membrane-free coacervates spontaneously sequester proteins and can reversibly form membranous vesicles upon varying the pH value, the precrowding feature in coacervates allowing for protein encapsulation withinvesicles. We then produced enzyme-enriched vesicles and show that enzymatic reactions can occur in these micrometric capsules. This work could be of interest in the field of synthetic biology for building microreactors.Read less <
English Keywords
coacervates
encapsulation
microreactors
proteins : vesicles
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