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Dynamic Behaviours in Microcompartments.

Youping Lin,Lei Wang,Xin Huang

Published 2019 in Chemistry

ABSTRACT

Compartmentalization is recognized to be a primary step for the assembly of non-living matter towards the construction of life-like micro-ensembles. To date, a host of hollow microcompartments with various functionalities have been widely developed. Within this respect, given that dynamic behaviour is one of the fundamental features to distinguish living ensembles from non-livings, the design and construction of the microcompartments with various dynamic behaviours are attracting considerable interest in a wide range of research communities. Significantly, the created dynamic microcompartments could be also widely used as chasis for the further bottom-up design towards building protocell models by integrating and booting up necessary biological information. Therefore, in this concept, we summarize the strategies to install the various motility behaviors including haptotaxis, chemotaxis, gravitaxis and etc. into the microcompartments. It is then anticipated that this concept article could inspire more designs towards creating various advanced active micro-compartments, and contribute new technique to the ultimate goal to construct a basic living unit entirely from non-living components.

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