Cellular self-organization

Other Cellular Self-Organization Mechanisms. Much emphasis has been placed in this section on the membrane based Ca2+ models involving charged membrane transport mediating species. However, a host of physically reasonable cellular self-organization phenomena present themselves. In this subsection we shall briefly discuss some of them. 

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Current research efforts have progressed to the point where the above processes have been investigated individually, so that the challenge now is to assemble them into an integrated system that exhibits the properties of the living state. This chapter focuses on the self-organizing properties of amphiphilic compounds that produce microscopic compartments necessary for the appearance of the first cellular forms of life. 

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Such a description encompasses the whole field of liquid crystals, where it is non-covalent, intermolecular interactions which determine the molecular organization leading to the various liquid crystalline phases or, in the extreme, to a totally disordered isotropic phase [2], The science of liquid crystals is really the art of balancing the various intermolecular interactions to achieve a desired liquid crystal phase rather than an ordered crystalline phase. Nature demonstrates this art in its highest form in the self-organization of lipids to produce liposomes and cellular membranes. 

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