Department of Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Feb 14;57(13):1631-1634. doi: 10.1039/d0cc08310k. Epub 2021 Jan 18.
A network of aqueous emulsion droplets that exhibits programmed and directional chemical inter-droplet communication is described. A non-reciprocal transfer of substrates between enzyme-containing aqueous emulsion droplets is realized by (biochemically) induced osmolarity gradients and concomitant concentration gradients are used to direct a multistep enzymatic cascade reaction across multiple droplets.
描述了一种表现出程序化和定向化学液滴间通讯的水包油乳液滴网络。通过（生物化学）诱导的渗透压梯度和伴随的浓度梯度，在含有酶的水包油乳液滴之间实现了底物的非相互传递，并且浓度梯度被用来引导多步酶级联反应跨越多个液滴。
