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Artificial Receptor in Synthetic Cells Performs Transmembrane Activation of Proteolysis.

Authors :
Søgaard AB
Løvschall KB
Montasell MC
Cramer CB
Marcet PM
Pedersen AB
Jakobsen JH
Zelikin AN
Source :
Advanced biology [Adv Biol (Weinh)] 2024 May 20, pp. e2400053. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 20.
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
Ahead of Print

Abstract

The design of artificial, synthetic cells is a fundamentally important and fast-developing field of science. Of the diverse attributes of cellular life, artificial transmembrane signaling across the biomolecular barriers remains a high challenge with only a few documented successes. Herein, the study achieves signaling across lipid bilayers and connects an exofacial enzymatic receptor activation to an intracellular biochemical catalytic response using an artificial receptor. The mechanism of signal transduction for the artificial receptor relies on the triggered decomposition of a self-immolative linker. Receptor activation ensues its head-to-tail decomposition and the release of a secondary messenger molecule into the internal volume of the synthetic cell. Transmembrane signaling is demonstrated in synthetic cells based on liposomes and mammalian cell-sized giant unilamellar vesicles and illustrates receptor performance in cell mimics with a diverse size and composition of the lipid bilayer. In giant unilamellar vesicles, transmembrane signaling connects exofacial receptor activation with intracellular activation of proteolysis. Taken together, the results of this study take a step toward engineering receptor-mediated, responsive behavior in synthetic cells.<br /> (© 2024 The Authors. Advanced Biology published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2701-0198
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Advanced biology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
38767247
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202400053