ABSTRACT
Minimal Cells ............................................................................................... 343 14.4.1 Minimal Cell Concept: The Current Experimental Approaches ..... 343 14.4.2 Toward Shell Production ................................................................... 347
14.5 Classical Views on Self-Healing of Lipid-Based Systems. What Can We Learn?.................................................................................... 347
14.6 Conclusions and Perspectives for Future Research and Applications .......... 350 Acknowledgments .................................................................................................. 352 References .............................................................................................................. 352
Prompted by the pioneering studies on the rational investigation on supra-and intermolecular self-organization that led to the origin of life on Earth, in recent years the topic of constructing cell models became a very fascinating research avenue (Morowitz, 1992; Forster and Church, 2006; Luisi et al., 2006; Mansy and Szostak, 2009; Luisi and Stano, 2011). The focus of these studies is placed on structural and dynamical organization in microcompartmentalized systems, generally based on self-assembled compartments such as lipid vesicles, micelles, and reverse micelles.
