Vesicle budding and the origin of cellular life.
This Minireview provides an appropriate opportunity to demonstrate the connection between the results of some early experimental and theoretical investigations of vesicle budding and the more recent application of the concepts developed there to the process of vesicle self-reproduction. Herein, we also explain why vesicle budding could have preceded the establishment of cellular life.
Svetina
Sasa
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Institute of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Lipiceva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. sasa.svetina@mf.uni-lj.si
D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006801:Humans; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry; D052898:Optical Tweezers; D010829:Physiological Phenomena; D053835:Unilamellar Liposomes / Q000737:chemistry*
D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D053835:Unilamellar Liposomes