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Título: | Emergent chemical behavior in variable-volume protocells |
Autor: | Shirt-Ediss, Ben CSIC ORCID; Solé, Ricard V. CSIC ORCID ; Ruiz-Mirazo, Kepa CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | Chemical reactors Kinetics (MAK) Mass action Bistability Osmosis Semi-permeable compartments Continuous-flow stirred tank reactor (CSTR) Osmotic coupling Systems chemistry Variable solvent volume |
Fecha de publicación: | 13-ene-2015 | Editor: | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Citación: | Life 5(1): 181-211 (2015) | Resumen: | © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Artificial protocellular compartments and lipid vesicles have been used as model systems to understand the origins and requirements for early cells, as well as to design encapsulated reactors for biotechnology. One prominent feature of vesicles is the semi-permeable nature of their membranes, able to support passive diffusion of individual solute species into/out of the compartment, in addition to an osmotic water flow in the opposite direction to the net solute concentration gradient. Crucially, this water flow affects the internal aqueous volume of the vesicle in response to osmotic imbalances, in particular those created by ongoing reactions within the system. In this theoretical study, we pay attention to this often overlooked aspect and show, via the use of a simple semi-spatial vesicle reactor model, that a changing solvent volume introduces interesting non-linearities into an encapsulated chemistry. Focusing on bistability, we demonstrate how a changing volume compartment can degenerate existing bistable reactions, but also promote emergent bistability from very simple reactions, which are not bistable in bulk conditions. One particularly remarkable effect is that two or more chemically-independent reactions, with mutually exclusive reaction kinetics, are able to couple their dynamics through the variation of solvent volume inside the vesicle. Our results suggest that other chemical innovations should be expected when more realistic and active properties of protocellular compartments are taken into account. | Descripción: | Supplementary materials can be accessed here.-- This article belongs to the Special Issue Protocells - Designs for Life.-- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, istribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life5010181 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/112440 | DOI: | 10.3390/life5010181 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.3390/life5010181 issn: 2075-1729 |
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