Recent years have seen substantial efforts aimed at constructing artificial cells from various
molecular components with the aim of mimicking the processes, behaviours and …

Conspectus Engineering chemical communication between micro/nanosystems (via the
exchange of chemical messengers) is receiving increasing attention from the scientific …

Signal transduction across biological membranes is among the most important evolutionary
achievements. Herein, for the design of artificial cells, we engineer fully synthetic receptors …

Intercellular communication is a hallmark of living systems. As such, engineering artificial
cells that possess this behavior has been at the heart of activities in bottom-up synthetic …

In this work, synthetic cells equipped with an artificial signaling pathway that connects an
extracellular trigger event to the activation of intracellular transcription are engineered …

Manipulating intracellular biological processes and organelles has emerged as a pivotal
strategy to influence cellular physiological functions. Mitochondria, recognized as the …

Cellular communication is a fundamental feature to ensure the survival of cellular
assemblies, such as multicellular tissue, via coordinated adaption to changes in their …

Enzyme compartmentalization is one of the main strategies exploited by nature to create
physically separated chemical environments that allow simultaneous enzyme reactions …

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the emerging field of constructing
biomimetic soft compartments with life‐like behaviors. Given that biological activities occur …

Living cells can modulate their response to environmental cues by changing their
sensitivities for molecular signals. Artificial cells are promising model platforms to study …