The bottom-up reconstitution of natural filaments within simplified artificial cellular compartments, such as coacervates, offer a model to study, mimic, and potentially exploit cellular functions. Here, the authors summarize the latest developments towards assembling confined fibrillar networks inside coacervates and related compartments, including a selection of examples ranging from biological to fully synthetic building blocks.
- Adrian Sanchez-Fernandez
- Ignacio Insua
- Javier Montenegro