Issue 29, 2018
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Chemical Communications

Chloroplast-containing coacervate micro-droplets as a step towards photosynthetically active membrane-free protocells†

B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar, ORCID logo a   James Fothergill,a   Joshua Bretherton,a   Liangfei Tian, ORCID logo a   Avinash J. Patil,a   Sean A. Davisa  and  Stephen Mann ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Protolife Research, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
E-mail: s.mann@bristol.ac.uk

Abstract

Encapsulation of structurally and functionally intact chloroplasts within coacervate micro-droplets is used to prepare membrane-free protocells capable of light-induced electron transport.

Graphical abstract: Chloroplast-containing coacervate micro-droplets as a step towards photosynthetically active membrane-free protocells

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC01129J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Feb 2018
Accepted
07 Mar 2018
First published
26 Mar 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 3594-3597

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Chloroplast-containing coacervate micro-droplets as a step towards photosynthetically active membrane-free protocells

B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar, J. Fothergill, J. Bretherton, L. Tian, A. J. Patil, S. A. Davis and S. Mann, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 3594 DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01129J

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