2 papers
physics.bio-ph2025
Protocellular energetics: Free energy estimates for all metabolic, self-assembly and vesicle fission processes
Steen Rasmussen, Thomas Frederiksen, Masayuki Imai +3
As minimal cells or protocells are dramatically simpler than modern unicells it is possible to quantitatively estimate free energy changes for every process in the lifecycle of a p…
physics.bio-ph2024
Metabolism, information, and viability in a simulated physically-plausible protocell
Kristoffer R. Thomsen, Artemy Kolchinsky, Steen Rasmussen
Critical experimental design issues connecting energy transduction and inheritable information within a protocell are explored and elucidated. The protocell design utilizes a photo…