Synthetic biology future perspectives

Type IV system. Protein synthesis inside lipid vesicles. The field of protein expression inside compartments is certainly the most advanced one in context of compartmentalized reactions. To date, in fact, it represents the state of the art in the construction of synthetic cells (more properly, semi-synthetic cells). This interest is due to the above mentioned convergence of some aspects of synthetic biology and experimental studies on the origins of Ufe. A comprehensive review of studies on semi-synthetic cells has been recently published by us, and other reviews have discussed this subject " here we will comment on a couple of relevant examples and highhghting some trends and future perspectives. The complete Ust of pubUshed works can be found in Table 17.1. 

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