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CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 660-664Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2004.10.002
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Primitive cells, lacking the complex bio-machinery present in modern cells, would have had to rely on the self-organizing properties of their components and on interactions with their environment to achieve basic cellular functions such as growth and division. Many bilayer-membrane vesicles, depending on their composition and environment, can exhibit complex morphological changes such as growth, fusion, fission, budding, internal vesicle assembly and vesicle-surface interactions. The rich dynamic properties of these vesicles provide interesting models of how primitive cellular replication might have occurred in response to purely physical and chemical forces.
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