Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2023

Sitzung

Session I

20.06.2023, 11:00

Online

Vorsitzende der Sitzung

Session I: Talks

• Miho Yanagisawa (U Tokyo, JP)
• Tomoaki Matsuura (ELSI, Tokyo Inst Tech, JP)

Session I: Q&A

• In diesem Block gibt es keine Vorsitzenden

57. Constructing artificial cells that can evolve based on the function of membrane proteins

Tomoaki Matsuura (ELSI, Tokyo Inst Tech, JP)

20.06.23, 11:00

One of the important features of living systems is their evolvability and their ability to interact with the extracellular environment. Once such a system can be constructed, we will be able to observe the evolutionary processes in the laboratory at a molecular level. However, constructing such molecular systems is a challenge because of the difficulties in working with membrane proteins, very...

58. From cell-size confinement effects on polymer solutions to the physical significance of cell size

Miho Yanagisawa (U Tokyo, JP)

20.06.23, 11:25

The size of cells ranges from 0.1 to 100 μm, regardless of the type of living cells. We have approached the physicochemical meaning using μm-sized polymer droplets covered with a lipid layer as artificial cells. From the molecular analysis inside the artificial cells, we have found that the properties and phase transitions of polymers confined to the artificial cell often differ from those in...