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Ranganath VA, Maity I. Artificial Homeostasis Systems Based on Feedback Reaction Networks: Design Principles and Future Promises. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202318134. [PMID: 38226567 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202318134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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Feedback-controlled chemical reaction networks (FCRNs) are indispensable for various biological processes, such as cellular mechanisms, patterns, and signaling pathways. Through the intricate interplay of many feedback loops (FLs), FCRNs maintain a stable internal cellular environment. Currently, creating minimalistic synthetic cells is the long-term objective of systems chemistry, which is motivated by such natural integrity. The design, kinetic optimization, and analysis of FCRNs to exhibit functions akin to those of a cell still pose significant challenges. Indeed, reaching synthetic homeostasis is essential for engineering synthetic cell components. However, maintaining homeostasis in artificial systems against various agitations is a difficult task. Several biological events can provide us with guidelines for a conceptual understanding of homeostasis, which can be further applicable in designing artificial synthetic systems. In this regard, we organize our review with artificial homeostasis systems driven by FCRNs at different length scales, including homogeneous, compartmentalized, and soft material systems. First, we stretch a quick overview of FCRNs in different molecular and supramolecular systems, which are the essential toolbox for engineering different nonlinear functions and homeostatic systems. Moreover, the existing history of synthetic homeostasis in chemical and material systems and their advanced functions with self-correcting, and regulating properties are also emphasized.
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- Vinay Ambekar Ranganath
- Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain (Deemed-to-be University), Jain Global Campus, Bangalore, 562112, Karnataka, India
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- Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain (Deemed-to-be University), Jain Global Campus, Bangalore, 562112, Karnataka, India
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Dev D, Wagner N, Pramanik B, Sharma B, Maity I, Cohen-Luria R, Peacock-Lopez E, Ashkenasy G. A Peptide-Based Oscillator. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:26279-26286. [PMID: 37984498 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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Living organisms are replete with rhythmic and oscillatory behavior at all levels, to the extent that oscillations have been termed as a defining attribute of life. Recent studies of synthetic oscillators that mimic such functions have shown decayed cycles in batch-mode reactions or sustained oscillatory kinetics under flow conditions. Considering the hypothesized functionality of peptides in early chemical evolution and their central role in current bio-nanotechnology, we now reveal a peptide-based oscillator. Oscillatory behavior was achieved by coupling coiled-coil-based replication processes as positive feedback to controlled initiation and inhibition pathways in a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR). Our results stress that assembly into the supramolecular structure and specific interactions with the replication substrates are crucial for oscillations. The replication-inhibition processes were first studied in batch mode, which produced a single damped cycle. Thereafter, combined experimental and theoretical characterization of the replication process in a CSTR under different flow and environmental (pH, redox) conditions demonstrated reasonably sustained oscillations. We propose that studies in this direction might pave the way to the design of robust oscillation networks that mimic the autonomous behavior of proteins in cells (e.g., in the cyanobacterial circadian clock) and hence hint at feasible pathways that accelerated the transition from simple peptides to extant enzymes.
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- Dharm Dev
- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
- Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain Global Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka 560070, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 02167, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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Edri R, Fisher S, Menor-Salvan C, Williams LD, Frenkel-Pinter M. Assembly-driven protection from hydrolysis as key selective force during chemical evolution. FEBS Lett 2023; 597:2879-2896. [PMID: 37884438 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Revised: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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The origins of biopolymers pose fascinating questions in prebiotic chemistry. The marvelous assembly proficiencies of biopolymers suggest they are winners of a competitive evolutionary process. Sophisticated molecular assembly is ubiquitous in life where it is often emergent upon polymerization. We focus on the influence of molecular assembly on hydrolysis rates in aqueous media and suggest that assembly was crucial for biopolymer selection. In this model, incremental enrichment of some molecular species during chemical evolution was partially driven by the interplay of kinetics of synthesis and hydrolysis. We document a general attenuation of hydrolysis by assembly (i.e., recalcitrance) for all universal biopolymers and highlight the likely role of assembly in the survival of the 'fittest' molecules during chemical evolution.
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- Rotem Edri
- Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Biología de Sistemas, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Center for the Origins of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Center for the Origins of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Nogal N, Sanz-Sánchez M, Vela-Gallego S, Ruiz-Mirazo K, de la Escosura A. The protometabolic nature of prebiotic chemistry. Chem Soc Rev 2023; 52:7359-7388. [PMID: 37855729 PMCID: PMC10614573 DOI: 10.1039/d3cs00594a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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The field of prebiotic chemistry has been dedicated over decades to finding abiotic routes towards the molecular components of life. There is nowadays a handful of prebiotically plausible scenarios that enable the laboratory synthesis of most amino acids, fatty acids, simple sugars, nucleotides and core metabolites of extant living organisms. The major bottleneck then seems to be the self-organization of those building blocks into systems that can self-sustain. The purpose of this tutorial review is having a close look, guided by experimental research, into the main synthetic pathways of prebiotic chemistry, suggesting how they could be wired through common intermediates and catalytic cycles, as well as how recursively changing conditions could help them engage in self-organized and dissipative networks/assemblies (i.e., systems that consume chemical or physical energy from their environment to maintain their internal organization in a dynamic steady state out of equilibrium). In the article we also pay attention to the implications of this view for the emergence of homochirality. The revealed connectivity between those prebiotic routes should constitute the basis for a robust research program towards the bottom-up implementation of protometabolic systems, taken as a central part of the origins-of-life problem. In addition, this approach should foster further exploration of control mechanisms to tame the combinatorial explosion that typically occurs in mixtures of various reactive precursors, thus regulating the functional integration of their respective chemistries into self-sustaining protocellular assemblies.
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- Noemí Nogal
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain.
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- Biofisika Institute (CSIC, UPV/EHU), University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
- Department of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain.
- Institute for Advanced Research in Chemistry (IAdChem), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Orrillo AG, Furlan RLE. Sulfur in Dynamic Covalent Chemistry. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202201168. [PMID: 35447003 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202201168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Sulfur has been important in dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) since the beginning of the field. Mainly as part of disulfides and thioesters, dynamic sulfur-based bonds (DSBs) have a leading role in several remarkable reactions. Part of this success is due to the almost ideal properties of DSBs for the preparation of dynamic covalent systems, including high reactivity and good reversibility under mild aqueous conditions, the possibility of exploiting supramolecular interactions, access to isolable structures, and easy experimental control to turn the reaction on/off. DCC is currently witnessing an increase in the importance of DSBs. The chemical flexibility offered by DSBs opens the door to multiple applications. This Review presents an overview of all the DSBs used in DCC, their applications, and remarks on the interesting properties that they confer on dynamic chemical systems, especially those containing several DSBs.
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- A Gastón Orrillo
- Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, CONICET, Suipacha 531, Rosario, S2002LRK, Argentina
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- Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, CONICET, Suipacha 531, Rosario, S2002LRK, Argentina
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Orrillo AG, Furlan RLE. Sulfur in Dynamic Covalent Chemistry. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202201168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Alfredo Gastón Orrillo
- Universidad Nacional de Rosario Facultad de Ciencias Bioquimicas y Farmaceuticas Organic Chemistry Suipacha 530 2000 Rosario ARGENTINA
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- Universidad Nacional de Rosario Facultad de Ciencias Bioquimicas y Farmaceuticas Organic Chemistry Suipacha 530 2000 Rosario ARGENTINA
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Vela-Gallego S, Pardo-Botero Z, Moya C, de la Escosura A. Collective Adaptability in a Replication Network of Minimal Nucleobase Sequences. Chem Sci 2022; 13:10715-10724. [PMID: 36320689 PMCID: PMC9491195 DOI: 10.1039/d2sc02419e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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A major challenge for understanding the origins of life is to explore how replication networks can engage in an evolutionary process. Herein, we shed light on this problem by implementing a network constituted by two different types of extremely simple biological components: the amino acid cysteine and the canonical nucleobases adenine and thymine, connected through amide bonds to the cysteine amino group and oxidation of its thiol into three possible disulfides. Supramolecular and kinetic analyses revealed that both self- and mutual interactions between such dinucleobase compounds drive their assembly and replication pathways. Those pathways involving sequence complementarity led to enhanced replication rates, suggesting a potential bias for selection. The interplay of synergistic dynamics and competition between replicators was then simulated, under conditions that are not easily accessible with experiments, in an open reactor parametrized and constrained with the unprecedentedly complete experimental kinetic data obtained for our replicative network. Interestingly, the simulations show bistability, as a selective amplification of different species depending on the initial mixture composition. Overall, this network configuration can favor a collective adaptability to changes in the availability of feedstock molecules, with disulfide exchange reactions serving as 'wires' that connect the different individual auto- and cross-catalytic pathways. A replication network of minimal nucleobase sequences is built from simple biological components. The network shows collective adaptability to changes in the environment, while disulfide exchange wires different auto- and cross-catalytic pathways.![]()
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- Sonia Vela-Gallego
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spain
- Institute for Advanced Research in Chemistry (IAdChem) Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spain
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Autocatalytic and oscillatory reaction networks that form guanidines and products of their cyclization. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2994. [PMID: 34016981 PMCID: PMC8138026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23206-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Autocatalytic and oscillatory networks of organic reactions are important for designing life-inspired materials and for better understanding the emergence of life on Earth; however, the diversity of the chemistries of these reactions is limited. In this work, we present the thiol-assisted formation of guanidines, which has a mechanism analogous to that of native chemical ligation. Using this reaction, we designed autocatalytic and oscillatory reaction networks that form substituted guanidines from thiouronium salts. The thiouronium salt-based oscillator show good stability of oscillations within a broad range of experimental conditions. By using nitrile-containing starting materials, we constructed an oscillator where the concentration of a bicyclic derivative of dihydropyrimidine oscillates. Moreover, the mixed thioester and thiouronium salt-based oscillator show unique responsiveness to chemical cues. The reactions developed in this work expand our toolbox for designing out-of-equilibrium chemical systems and link autocatalytic and oscillatory chemistry to the synthesis of guanidinium derivatives and the products of their transformations including analogs of nucleobases. So far, only a few chemical oscillators based on organic reactions have been developed. Here, the authors report both autocatalytic and oscillatory reaction networks that form substituted guanidines from thiouronium salts; when coupled to cascade cyclization, this reaction network produces oscillations in the production of pyrimidine-based heterocycles.
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Ameta S, Matsubara YJ, Chakraborty N, Krishna S, Thutupalli S. Self-Reproduction and Darwinian Evolution in Autocatalytic Chemical Reaction Systems. Life (Basel) 2021; 11:308. [PMID: 33916135 PMCID: PMC8066523 DOI: 10.3390/life11040308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Revised: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Understanding the emergence of life from (primitive) abiotic components has arguably been one of the deepest and yet one of the most elusive scientific questions. Notwithstanding the lack of a clear definition for a living system, it is widely argued that heredity (involving self-reproduction) along with compartmentalization and metabolism are key features that contrast living systems from their non-living counterparts. A minimal living system may be viewed as "a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution". It has been proposed that autocatalytic sets of chemical reactions (ACSs) could serve as a mechanism to establish chemical compositional identity, heritable self-reproduction, and evolution in a minimal chemical system. Following years of theoretical work, autocatalytic chemical systems have been constructed experimentally using a wide variety of substrates, and most studies, thus far, have focused on the demonstration of chemical self-reproduction under specific conditions. While several recent experimental studies have raised the possibility of carrying out some aspects of experimental evolution using autocatalytic reaction networks, there remain many open challenges. In this review, we start by evaluating theoretical studies of ACSs specifically with a view to establish the conditions required for such chemical systems to exhibit self-reproduction and Darwinian evolution. Then, we follow with an extensive overview of experimental ACS systems and use the theoretically established conditions to critically evaluate these empirical systems for their potential to exhibit Darwinian evolution. We identify various technical and conceptual challenges limiting experimental progress and, finally, conclude with some remarks about open questions.
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- Sandeep Ameta
- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India
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- Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India
- International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560089, India
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Maity I, Dev D, Basu K, Wagner N, Ashkenasy G. Signaling in Systems Chemistry: Programing Gold Nanoparticles Formation and Assembly Using a Dynamic Bistable Network. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202012837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Indrajit Maity
- Department of Chemistry Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
- Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg 79104 Freiburg Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
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- Department of Chemistry Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
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- Department of Chemistry Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
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- Department of Chemistry Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
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Maity I, Dev D, Basu K, Wagner N, Ashkenasy G. Signaling in Systems Chemistry: Programing Gold Nanoparticles Formation and Assembly Using a Dynamic Bistable Network. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:4512-4517. [PMID: 33006406 PMCID: PMC7984337 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202012837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Living cells exploit bistable and oscillatory behaviors as memory mechanisms, facilitating the integration of transient stimuli into sustained molecular responses that control downstream functions. Synthetic bistable networks have also been studied as memory entities, but have rarely been utilized to control orthogonal functions in coupled dynamic systems. We herein present a new cascade pathway, for which we have exploited a well-characterized switchable peptide-based replicating network, operating far from equilibrium, that yields two alternative steady-state outputs, which in turn serve as the input signals for consecutive processes that regulate various features of Au nanoparticle shape and assembly. This study further sheds light on how bridging together the fields of systems chemistry and nanotechnology may open up new opportunities for the dynamically controlled design of functional materials.
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- Indrajit Maity
- Department of ChemistryBen Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva84105Israel
- Institute for Macromolecular ChemistryFreiburg Institute for Advanced StudiesAlbert Ludwigs University of Freiburg79104FreiburgGermany
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- Department of ChemistryBen Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva84105Israel
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- Department of ChemistryBen Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva84105Israel
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- Department of ChemistryBen Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva84105Israel
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- Department of ChemistryBen Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva84105Israel
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Hochberg D, Ribó JM. Entropic analysis of bistability and the general evolution criterion. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:14051-14063. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cp01236c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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An open flow bistable Schlögl model in a well-stirred isothermal reaction volume V showing the balance of the entropy production and the exchange entropy on the non-equilibrium stationary states.
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- David Hochberg
- Department of Molecular Evolution
- Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
- 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz
- Spain
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- Department of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
- Institute of Cosmos Science (IEEC-UB)
- University of Barcelona
- Barcelona
- Spain
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From self-replication to replicator systems en route to de novo life. Nat Rev Chem 2020; 4:386-403. [PMID: 37127968 DOI: 10.1038/s41570-020-0196-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The process by which chemistry can give rise to biology remains one of the biggest mysteries in contemporary science. The de novo synthesis and origin of life both require the functional integration of three key characteristics - replication, metabolism and compartmentalization - into a system that is maintained out of equilibrium and is capable of open-ended Darwinian evolution. This Review takes systems of self-replicating molecules as starting points and describes the steps necessary to integrate additional characteristics of life. We analyse how far experimental self-replicators have come in terms of Darwinian evolution. We also cover models of replicator communities that attempt to solve Eigen's paradox, whereby accurate replication needs complex machinery yet obtaining such complex self-replicators through evolution requires accurate replication. Successful models rely on a collective metabolism and a way of (transient) compartmentalization, suggesting that the invention and integration of these two characteristics is driven by evolution. Despite our growing knowledge, there remain numerous key challenges that may be addressed by a combined theoretical and experimental approach.
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Wagner N, Mukherjee R, Maity I, Kraun S, Ashkenasy G. Programming Multistationarity in Chemical Replication Networks. CHEMSYSTEMSCHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/syst.201900048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Nathaniel Wagner
- Department of ChemistryBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
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- Department of ChemistryBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
- Institute for chemical sciences and engineeringEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Department of ChemistryBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
- Institute for Macromolecular ChemistryAlbert Ludwigs University of Freiburg 79104 Freiburg Germany
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- Department of ChemistryBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
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- Department of ChemistryBen-Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva 84105 Israel
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Frenkel-Pinter M, Samanta M, Ashkenasy G, Leman LJ. Prebiotic Peptides: Molecular Hubs in the Origin of Life. Chem Rev 2020; 120:4707-4765. [PMID: 32101414 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The fundamental roles that peptides and proteins play in today's biology makes it almost indisputable that peptides were key players in the origin of life. Insofar as it is appropriate to extrapolate back from extant biology to the prebiotic world, one must acknowledge the critical importance that interconnected molecular networks, likely with peptides as key components, would have played in life's origin. In this review, we summarize chemical processes involving peptides that could have contributed to early chemical evolution, with an emphasis on molecular interactions between peptides and other classes of organic molecules. We first summarize mechanisms by which amino acids and similar building blocks could have been produced and elaborated into proto-peptides. Next, non-covalent interactions of peptides with other peptides as well as with nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates, metal ions, and aromatic molecules are discussed in relation to the possible roles of such interactions in chemical evolution of structure and function. Finally, we describe research involving structural alternatives to peptides and covalent adducts between amino acids/peptides and other classes of molecules. We propose that ample future breakthroughs in origin-of-life chemistry will stem from investigations of interconnected chemical systems in which synergistic interactions between different classes of molecules emerge.
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- Moran Frenkel-Pinter
- NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, https://centerforchemicalevolution.com/.,School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
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- NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, https://centerforchemicalevolution.com/.,Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
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Xie X, Wang L, Liu X, Du Z, Li Y, Li B, Wu L, Li W. Light-powered and transient peptide two-dimensional assembly driven by trans-to-cis isomerization of azobenzene side chains. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:1867-1870. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cc09448b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A 2D dissipative system is initiated by photo-powered trans-to-cis isomerization of azobenzene, which usually results in the collapse of ordered assemblies.
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- Xiaoming Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- College of Chemistry
- Jilin University
- Changchun 130012
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Solà J, Jimeno C, Alfonso I. Exploiting complexity to implement function in chemical systems. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:13273-13286. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04170j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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This feature article reflects a personal overview of the importance of complexity as an additional parameter to be considered in chemical research, being illustrated with selected examples in molecular recognition and catalysis.
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- Jordi Solà
- Department of Biological Chemistry
- Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
- IQAC-CSIC
- 08034 Barcelona
- Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry
- Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
- IQAC-CSIC
- 08034 Barcelona
- Spain
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- Department of Biological Chemistry
- Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
- IQAC-CSIC
- 08034 Barcelona
- Spain
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One of the grand challenges in contemporary systems chemistry research is to mimic life-like functions using simple synthetic molecular networks. This is particularly true for systems that are out of chemical equilibrium and show complex dynamic behaviour, such as multi-stability, oscillations and chaos. We report here on thiodepsipeptide-based non-enzymatic networks propelled by reversible replication processes out of equilibrium, displaying bistability. Accordingly, we present quantitative analyses of the bistable behaviour, featuring a phase transition from the simple equilibration processes taking place in reversible dynamic chemistry into the bistable region. This behaviour is observed only when the system is continuously fueled by a reducing agent that keeps it far from equilibrium, and only when operating within a specifically defined parameter space. We propose that the development of biomimetic bistable systems will pave the way towards the study of more elaborate functions, such as information transfer and signalling.
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Modelling Bacteria-Inspired Dynamics with Networks of Interacting Chemicals. Life (Basel) 2019; 9:life9030063. [PMID: 31362385 PMCID: PMC6789575 DOI: 10.3390/life9030063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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One approach to understanding how life-like properties emerge involves building synthetic cellular systems that mimic certain dynamical features of living cells such as bacteria. Here, we developed a model of a reaction network in a cellular system inspired by the ability of bacteria to form a biofilm in response to increasing cell density. Our aim was to determine the role of chemical feedback in the dynamics. The feedback was applied through the enzymatic rate dependence on pH, as pH is an important parameter that controls the rates of processes in cells. We found that a switch in pH can be used to drive base-catalyzed gelation or precipitation of a substance in the external solution. A critical density of cells was required for gelation that was essentially independent of the pH-driven feedback. However, the cell pH reached a higher maximum as a result of the appearance of pH oscillations with feedback. Thus, we conclude that while feedback may not play a vital role in some density-dependent behavior in cellular systems, it nevertheless can be exploited to activate internally regulated cell processes at low cell densities.
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Wagner N, Hochberg D, Peacock-Lopez E, Maity I, Ashkenasy G. Open Prebiotic Environments Drive Emergent Phenomena and Complex Behavior. Life (Basel) 2019; 9:life9020045. [PMID: 31163645 PMCID: PMC6617095 DOI: 10.3390/life9020045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Revised: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 05/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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We have been studying simple prebiotic catalytic replicating networks as prototypes for modeling replication, complexification and Systems Chemistry. While living systems are always open and function far from equilibrium, these prebiotic networks may be open or closed, dynamic or static, divergent or convergent to a steady state. In this paper we review the properties of these simple replicating networks, and show, via four working models, how even though closed systems exhibit a wide range of emergent phenomena, many of the more interesting phenomena leading to complexification and emergence indeed require open systems.
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- Nathaniel Wagner
- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
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- Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Ctra Ajalvir Km. 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
- Present address: Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel.
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Le Vay K, Weise LI, Libicher K, Mascarenhas J, Mutschler H. Templated Self‐Replication in Biomimetic Systems. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 3:e1800313. [DOI: 10.1002/adbi.201800313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Revised: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Kristian Le Vay
- Biomimetic SystemsMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried Germany
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- Biomimetic SystemsMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried Germany
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- Biomimetic SystemsMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried Germany
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- Department of Systems and Synthetic MicrobiologyMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Marburg Germany
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- Biomimetic SystemsMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried Germany
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Bakir M. X-ray crystallographic, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of a bi-stable di-2-thienyl ketone 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazone (dtkdnph). J Mol Struct 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2018.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Rink WM, Thomas F. De Novo Designed α-Helical Coiled-Coil Peptides as Scaffolds for Chemical Reactions. Chemistry 2018; 25:1665-1677. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- W. Mathis Rink
- Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Tammannstraße 2 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Tammannstraße 2 37077 Göttingen Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration; Von-Siebold-Straße 3a 37075 Göttingen Germany
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Bai Y, Chotera A, Taran O, Liang C, Ashkenasy G, Lynn DG. Achieving biopolymer synergy in systems chemistry. Chem Soc Rev 2018; 47:5444-5456. [PMID: 29850753 DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00174j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Synthetic and materials chemistry initiatives have enabled the translation of the macromolecular functions of biology into synthetic frameworks. These explorations into alternative chemistries of life attempt to capture the versatile functionality and adaptability of biopolymers in new orthogonal scaffolds. Information storage and transfer, however, so beautifully represented in the central dogma of biology, require multiple components functioning synergistically. Over a single decade, the emerging field of systems chemistry has begun to catalyze the construction of mutualistic biopolymer networks, and this review begins with the foundational small-molecule-based dynamic chemical networks and peptide amyloid-based dynamic physical networks on which this effort builds. The approach both contextualizes the versatile approaches that have been developed to enrich chemical information in synthetic networks and highlights the properties of amyloids as potential alternative genetic elements. The successful integration of both chemical and physical networks through β-sheet assisted replication processes further informs the synergistic potential of these networks. Inspired by the cooperative synergies of nucleic acids and proteins in biology, synthetic nucleic-acid-peptide chimeras are now being explored to extend their informational content. With our growing range of synthetic capabilities, structural analyses, and simulation technologies, this foundation is radically extending the structural space that might cross the Darwinian threshold for the origins of life as well as creating an array of alternative systems capable of achieving the progressive growth of novel informational materials.
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- Yushi Bai
- Emory University, 1521 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
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- Támás Bánsági
- Department of Chemistry; University of Birmingham; Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT UK
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; University of Sheffield; Sheffield S1 3JD UK
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; University of Sheffield; Sheffield S1 3JD UK
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Bánsági T, Taylor AF. Switches induced by quorum sensing in a model of enzyme-loaded microparticles. J R Soc Interface 2018. [PMID: 29514986 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Quorum sensing refers to the ability of bacteria and other single-celled organisms to respond to changes in cell density or number with population-wide changes in behaviour. Here, simulations were performed to investigate quorum sensing in groups of diffusively coupled enzyme microparticles using a well-characterized autocatalytic reaction which raises the pH of the medium: hydrolysis of urea by urease. The enzyme urease is found in both plants and microorganisms, and has been widely exploited in engineering processes. We demonstrate how increases in group size can be used to achieve a sigmoidal switch in pH at high enzyme loading, oscillations in pH at intermediate enzyme loading and a bistable, hysteretic switch at low enzyme loading. Thus, quorum sensing can be exploited to obtain different types of response in the same system, depending on the enzyme concentration. The implications for microorganisms in colonies are discussed, and the results could help in the design of synthetic quorum sensing for biotechnology applications such as drug delivery.
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- Tamás Bánsági
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
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Gonçalves da Silva LH, Hochberg D. Open flow non-enzymatic template catalysis and replication. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:14864-14875. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01828f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fully reversible template assisted ligation and replication leads to high template yields in open flow reactors.
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- Department of Molecular Evolution
- Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
- 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz
- Spain
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Altay Y, Tezcan M, Otto S. Emergence of a New Self-Replicator from a Dynamic Combinatorial Library Requires a Specific Pre-Existing Replicator. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:13612-13615. [PMID: 28910535 PMCID: PMC5632813 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Our
knowledge regarding the early steps in the formation of evolvable
life and what constitutes the minimal molecular basis of life remains
far from complete. The recent emergence of systems chemistry reinvigorated
the investigation of systems of self-replicating molecules to address
these questions. Most of these studies focus on single replicators
and the effects of replicators on the emergence of other replicators
remains under-investigated. Here we show the cross-catalyzed emergence
of a novel self-replicator from a dynamic combinatorial library made
from a threonine containing peptide building block, which, by itself,
only forms trimers and tetramers that do not replicate. Upon seeding
of this library with different replicators of different macrocycle
size (hexamers and octamers), we observed the emergence of hexamer
replicator consisting of six units of the threonine peptide only when
it is seeded with an octamer replicator containing eight units of
a serine building block. These results reveal for the first time how
a new replicator can emerge in a process that relies critically on
the assistance by another replicator through cross-catalysis and that
replicator composition is history dependent.
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- Yigit Altay
- Centre for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute , Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Duim H, Otto S. Towards open-ended evolution in self-replicating molecular systems. Beilstein J Org Chem 2017; 13:1189-1203. [PMID: 28694865 PMCID: PMC5496545 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.13.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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In this review we discuss systems of self-replicating molecules in the context of the origin of life and the synthesis of de novo life. One of the important aspects of life is the ability to reproduce and evolve continuously. In this review we consider some of the prerequisites for obtaining unbounded evolution of self-replicating molecules and describe some recent advances in this field. While evolution experiments involving self-replicating molecules have shown promising results, true open-ended evolution has not been realized so far. A full understanding of the requirements for open-ended evolution would provide a better understanding of how life could have emerged from molecular building blocks and what is needed to create a minimal form of life in the laboratory.
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- Herman Duim
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Wagner N, Mukherjee R, Maity I, Peacock-Lopez E, Ashkenasy G. Bistability and Bifurcation in Minimal Self-Replication and Nonenzymatic Catalytic Networks. Chemphyschem 2017; 18:1842-1850. [PMID: 28112462 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201601293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Revised: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Bistability and bifurcation, found in a wide range of biochemical networks, are central to the proper function of living systems. We investigate herein recent model systems that show bistable behavior based on nonenzymatic self-replication reactions. Such models were used before to investigate catalytic growth, chemical logic operations, and additional processes of self-organization leading to complexification. By solving for their steady-state solutions by using various analytical and numerical methods, we analyze how and when these systems yield bistability and bifurcation and discover specific cases and conditions producing bistability. We demonstrate that the onset of bistability requires at least second-order catalysis and results from a mismatch between the various forward and reverse processes. Our findings may have far-reaching implications in understanding early evolutionary processes of complexification, emergence, and potentially the origin of life.
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- Nathaniel Wagner
- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel
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A series of exciting phenomena that can occur in supramolecular systems away from equilibrium are reviewed.
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- Gonen Ashkenasy
- Department of Chemistry
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Beer Sheva
- Israel
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- Centre for Systems Chemistry
- Stratingh Institute
- University of Groningen
- 9747 AG Groningen
- The Netherlands
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- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- University of Sheffield
- Sheffield S1 3JD
- UK
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Alfonso I. From simplicity to complex systems with bioinspired pseudopeptides. Chem Commun (Camb) 2016; 52:239-50. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cc07596c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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This feature article highlights some of the recent advances in creating complexity from simple pseudopeptidic molecules. The bioinspired approaches discussed here allowed an increase in the structural, chemical and interactional complexity (see figure).
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- Ignacio Alfonso
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Modelling
- Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
- IQAC-CSIC
- Jordi Girona
- 18-26
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