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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2021 Sep 28;64:165–173. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.08.008

Figure 2: Synthetic organelles and communication.

Figure 2:

A) A porous synthetic cell with a nucleus-like DNA-hydrogel that expresses display proteins and communicates with neighboring synthetic cell through protein diffusion [78]. B) encapsulated E. coli functions as lactate sensor in synthetic cell [69]. C) Internal lipid droplet with sponge morphology enables expression regulation and mimics interconnected membrane morphologies of Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum [72]. D) internal synthetic cell chemistry communicating with encapsulated bacterial and eukaryotic cells to display logic gate encodable mutualism [68].