研究者らが合成細胞開発に関する「創設文書」を作成(Researchers Develop ‘Founding Document’ on Synthetic Cell Development)

2024-05-02 NASA

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• https://www.nasa.gov/general/researchers-develop-founding-document-on-synthetic-cell-development/
• https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acssynbio.3c00724

合成細胞の構築・技術基盤から細胞体まで Building Synthetic Cells-From the Technology Infrastructure to Cellular Entities

Lynn J. Rothschild, Nils J. H. Averesch, Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Felix Moser, John I. Glass, Rolando Cruz Perez, Ibrahim O. Yekinni, Brooke Rothschild-Mancinelli, Garrett A. Roberts Kingman, Feilun Wu, Jorik Waeterschoot, Ion A. Ioannou, Michael C. Jewett, Allen P. Liu, Vincent Noireaux, Carlise Sorenson, and Katarzyna P. Adamala
ACS Synthetic Biology  Published:March 26, 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.3c00724

Abstract

The de novo construction of a living organism is a compelling vision. Despite the astonishing technologies developed to modify living cells, building a functioning cell “from scratch” has yet to be accomplished. The pursuit of this goal alone has─and will─yield scientific insights affecting fields as diverse as cell biology, biotechnology, medicine, and astrobiology. Multiple approaches have aimed to create biochemical systems manifesting common characteristics of life, such as compartmentalization, metabolism, and replication and the derived features, evolution, responsiveness to stimuli, and directed movement. Significant achievements in synthesizing each of these criteria have been made, individually and in limited combinations. Here, we review these efforts, distinguish different approaches, and highlight bottlenecks in the current research. We look ahead at what work remains to be accomplished and propose a “roadmap” with key milestones to achieve the vision of building cells from molecular parts.