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Coupled growth and division of model protocell membranes.
Paper summary
Demonstrates growth and division of model fatty-acid vesicles. Feeding multilamellar vesicles produces elongated forms under limited solute permeability; physical division offers a route to repeated membrane cycles with retained contents.
Relevance to the project
A comparison for resource-driven growth, boundary dynamics, and propagation without a fully specified genetic system. Distinguish mechanical splitting from functional inheritance.
Membrane cycling is not a demonstration of complete cellular life.
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- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc2669828
- Archived version
- Europe PMC hosted article; publication/manuscript status is specified in source XML
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc2669828/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.