Creation and Reproduction of Model Cells with Semipermeable Membrane
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2009-11-13 v1 Cell Behavior
Abstract
A high activity of reactions can be confined in a model cell with a semipermeable membrane in the Schl\"ogl model. It is interpreted as a model of primitive metabolism in a cell. We study two generalized models to understand the creation of primitive cell systems conceptually from the view point of the nonlinear-nonequilibrium physics. In the first model, a single-cell system with a highly active state confined by a semipermeable membrane is spontaneously created from an inactive homogeneous state by a stochastic jump process. In the second model, many cell structures are reproduced from a single cell, and a multicellular system is created.
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@article{arxiv.0810.4745,
title = {Creation and Reproduction of Model Cells with Semipermeable Membrane},
author = {Hidetsugu Sakaguchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4745},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, 7 figures