{"id":226076,"date":"2025-11-28T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/artificial-membranes-mimic-life-like-dynamics-through-catalytic-chemical-reactions"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:10:28","slug":"artificial-membranes-mimic-life-like-dynamics-through-catalytic-chemical-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/artificial-membranes-mimic-life-like-dynamics-through-catalytic-chemical-reactions","title":{"rendered":"Artificial membranes mimic life-like dynamics through catalytic chemical reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-membranes-mimic-life-like-dynamics-through-catalytic-chemical-reactions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using catalytic chemistry, researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have achieved dynamic control of artificial membranes, enabling life-like membrane behavior. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.5c10187\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<p>By employing an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-success-simple-creation-artificial-metalloenzymes.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">artificial metalloenzyme<\/a> that performs a ring-closing metathesis reaction, the team induced the disappearance of phase-separated domains as well as membrane division in artificial membranes, imitating the dynamic behavior of natural biological membranes. This transformative research marks a milestone in synthetic cell technologies, paving the way for innovative therapeutic breakthroughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using catalytic chemistry, researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have achieved dynamic control of artificial membranes, enabling life-like membrane behavior. The work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. By employing an artificial metalloenzyme that performs a ring-closing metathesis reaction, the team induced the disappearance of phase-separated domains as well as membrane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}