ReviewNature chemical biology2025
Strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication.
Review in Nature chemical biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Organization and Triggered Release of Liposomes with DNA-Based Synthetic Condensates.ACS nano · 2026Article
- Membrane-Associated Biomolecules for Synthetic Cell Signalling.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026Review
- A synthetic cell microreactor with two types of interacting dynamic DNA-based pores.Nature chemistry · 2026Article
- Let There be Light! Light as an Engine and Regulator in Synthetic Cells.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Review
- RNA-Based Communication in Heterogeneous Populations of Cell Mimics.ACS synthetic biology · 2026Article
- Light-Controlled Membrane Fusion in Synthetic Cells.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Stimuli-Responsive Cell-Mimetic Vesicles for Advanced Pharmaceutical Systems.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- From biological surfaces to engineered systems: how synthetic and systems biology enable biomimetic design.Frontiers in systems biology · 2026Review
- pH-responsive synthetic cells for controlled protein synthesis and release.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cell signaling and communication are fundamental to living cellular communities. Over the past two decades, there has been a continuous development of bottom-up engineered synthetic cells, which have become increasingly similar to their natural counterparts. However, we are only scratching the surface with the development of synthetic cellular communities and their integration into natural tissues. Here we review different intercellular communication mechanisms engineered for synthetic cells and classify them based on their resemblance to natural cell signaling mechanisms-autocrine, paracrine and juxtacrine. In particular, we highlight recent advances in molecular tools for intercellular communication strategies and discuss potential applications of engineering synthetic cellular communities and synthetic cell-natural cell communication. With further advances in this area, synthetic cellular communities will be powerful tools for understanding and manipulating cellular functions, thus unlocking potential applications in biosensing, cellular reprogramming and sustainability.
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