Tibor Gánti's research while affiliated with Hungarian Academy of Sciences and other places

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Article
In the biological sense, biogenesis is the spontaneous assembly of program-controlled, self-reproducing fluid automata under prebiotic conditions. In order to understand this phenomenon, principles of the theory of fluid automata should be laid down, as well as those of cycle stoichiometry which makes the exact, quantitative design of such chemical...

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... In fact, when AOT micelles and H 2 O 2 were microinjected to binary AOT/cholesterol GUVs consisting of 5 instead of 10 mol% cholesterol, the target GUVs produced a similar cascade of small daughter vesicles from the beginning (Supplementary Movie 11). In theoretical descriptions of minimal cells, such as the chemoton model 45 , a mutually catalytic reaction network is encapsulated in a compartment (vesicle), whereby for sustaining the compartment-confined reaction network, ingredients and waste have to be transported selectively through the compartment shell (vesicle membrane). To establish such traffic systems, the compartment boundary should be equipped with sophisticated "transport units", which is an obstacle for the synthesis of minimal cells 46,47 . ...
Citing article
... Introduction Based on our current knowledge about life it is safe to say that every recent living creature consists of one or more cells, each cell featuring three functional units/"subsystems" [1,2]: one storing the genetic know-how of self-maintenance and reproduction and passing it down the generations (genetic machinery), another one supporting the other two subsystems with material and energy (metabolism) [1], and a boundary subsystem (e.g. membrane) connecting the previous two to the external world while providing them with individual existence. ...