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Synthetic Cellularity via Protocell Design and Chemical Construction

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Project "PCELLS" data sheet

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Coordinator
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL 

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address: BEACON HOUSE QUEENS ROAD
city: BRISTOL
postcode: BS8 1QU
website: www.bristol.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 2˙499˙238 €
 EC max contribution 2˙499˙238 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-ADG
 Funding Scheme ERC-ADG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-07-01   to  2022-06-30

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1    UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL UK (BRISTOL) coordinator 2˙499˙238.00

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 Project objective

We propose to undertake an ambitious 5-year multidisciplinary programme that seeks to pioneer and establish a fundamentally new paradigm in protolife research that is based on novel conceptual and experimental advances in the design and construction of rudimentary forms of synthetic cell-like micro-ensembles (protocells). Our approach is positioned at the interface between materials chemistry, soft matter science and synthetic biology, and will address the following aspects of protocell design and construction: (i) functional complexity in protocell phenotypes, (ii) protocell self-structuring and metamorphosis, (iii) multi-compartmentalization and protocell endosymbiosis, and (iv) collective behavior in protocell communities. We will initiate unprecedented increases in the complexity of individual protocells by developing new types of structural architectures with advanced functions including photosynthetic protocells and motile proteinosomes, and develop innovative strategies for the chemical secretion of spatially extended extra-protocellular hydrogel matrices and induction of protocell metamorphosis. We will develop a modular micro-engineering approach to protocell multi-compartmentalization with the aim of generating coordinated enzyme- and gene-activated endosymbiotic interactions, and pioneer the experimental study of collective behaviour in communities of synthetic protocells. Our overall aim is to pioneer a modern approach to synthetic cellularity that advances the chemical and physical basis of protocell structure and function, and spearheads the development of future technologies based on autonomously functioning chemical micro-compartments with applications in bioinspired micro-storage and delivery, micro-reactor technologies, cytomimetic engineering, and the development of integrated constructs for diverse procedures in synthetic biology.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2020 Pierangelo Gobbo, Liangfei Tian, B. V. V. S Pavan Kumar, Samuel Turvey, Mattia Cattelan, Avinash J. Patil, Mauro Carraro, Marcella Bonchio, Stephen Mann
Catalytic processing in ruthenium-based polyoxometalate coacervate protocells
published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13759-1
Nature Communications 11/1 2020-03-13
2019 Nicolas Martin, Liangfei Tian, Dan Spencer, Angélique Coutable-Pennarun, J. L. Ross Anderson, Stephen Mann
Photoswitchable Phase Separation and Oligonucleotide Trafficking in DNA Coacervate Microdroplets
published pages: 14594-14598, ISSN: 1433-7851, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909228
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58/41 2020-03-13
2018 B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar, Avinash J. Patil, Stephen Mann
Enzyme-powered motility in buoyant organoclay/DNA protocells
published pages: 1154-1163, ISSN: 1755-4330, DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0119-3
Nature Chemistry 10/11 2019-09-02
2018 Jean-Paul Douliez, Nicolas Martin, Thomas Beneyton, Jean-Charles Eloi, Jean-Paul Chapel, Laurence Navailles, Jean-Christophe Baret, Stephen Mann, Laure Béven
Preparation of Swellable Hydrogel-Containing Colloidosomes from Aqueous Two-Phase Pickering Emulsion Droplets
published pages: 7780-7784, ISSN: 1433-7851, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802929
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57/26 2019-09-02
2018 B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar, James Fothergill, Joshua Bretherton, Liangfei Tian, Avinash J. Patil, Sean A. Davis, Stephen Mann
Chloroplast-containing coacervate micro-droplets as a step towards photosynthetically active membrane-free protocells
published pages: 3594-3597, ISSN: 1359-7345, DOI: 10.1039/c8cc01129j
Chemical Communications 54/29 2019-09-02
2019 Alex Joesaar, Shuo Yang, Bas Bögels, Ardjan van der Linden, Pascal Pieters, B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar, Neil Dalchau, Andrew Phillips, Stephen Mann, Tom F. A. de Greef
DNA-based communication in populations of synthetic protocells
published pages: 369-378, ISSN: 1748-3387, DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0399-9
Nature Nanotechnology 14/4 2019-09-02
2018 Nicolas Martin, Jean-Paul Douliez, Yan Qiao, Richard Booth, Mei Li, Stephen Mann
Antagonistic chemical coupling in self-reconfigurable host–guest protocells
published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06087-3
Nature Communications 9/1 2019-09-02
2019 Laura Rodríguez-Arco, B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar, Mei Li, Avinash J. Patil, Stephen Mann
Modulation of Higher-order Behaviour in Model Protocell Communities by Artificial Phagocytosis
published pages: 6333-6337, ISSN: 1433-7851, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201901469
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 58/19 2019-09-02

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