Establishing Communication Between Artificial Cells

Communication between artificial cells is essential for the realization of complex dynamical behaviors at the multi‐cell level. It is also an important prerequisite for modular systems design, because it determines how spatially separated functional modules can coordinate their actions. Among others...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chemistry : a European journal 2019-10, Vol.25 (55), p.12659-12670
Hauptverfasser: Aufinger, Lukas, Simmel, Friedrich C.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Communication between artificial cells is essential for the realization of complex dynamical behaviors at the multi‐cell level. It is also an important prerequisite for modular systems design, because it determines how spatially separated functional modules can coordinate their actions. Among others, molecular communication is required for artificial cell signaling, synchronization of cellular behaviors, computation, group‐level decision‐making processes and pattern formation in artificial tissues. In this review, an overview of various recent approaches to create communicating artificial cellular systems is provided. In this context, important physicochemical boundary conditions that have to be considered for the design of the communicating cells are also described, and a survey of the most striking emergent behaviors that may be achieved in such systems is given. Molecular communication is an important prerequisite for the realization of complex collective behaviors in a consortia of artificial cell‐scale systems.
ISSN:0947-6539
1521-3765
DOI:10.1002/chem.201901726