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A giant step toward the artificial cell by successful synthesis of the functional cell membrane in vitro

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The membrane molecular machinery that is necessary for membrane integration of protein and for development of artificial cell has been successfully synthesized in a test tube by the research team of Dr. Yutetsu Kuruma (WPI-Researcher of Eearth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Prof. Takuya Ueda and Mr. Hideaki Matsubayashi (Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo). The membrane molecular machinery was synthesized using an in vitro protein synthesis system called as the PURE system developed by Prof. Ueda and allowed to synthesizing membrane proteins in the same process as a cell.

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A giant step toward the artificial cell by successful synthesis of the functional cell membrane in vitro
For the development of fully controllable in vitro system for membrane protein synthesis

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