Light-Harvesting Artificial Cells for the Generation of ATP and NADPH

The bottom-up construction of self-powered artificial cells is significant to understand the energy supply and metabolism of nature cells.Here,we demonstrate an efficient manner to build thylakoid-containing artificial cells,which continuously convert light energy into chemical energy to supply adenosine 5'-triphosphate(ATP)under light illumination.The production of ATP supplies energy to promote the biological enzyme cascade reactions,where glucose is transformed into glucose 6-phosphate(G6P)under the catalysis of hexokinase(HK).G6P was further converted to gluconolactone 6-phosphate(PG)in the presence of 6-phosphate dehydrogenase(G6PDH),meanwhile NADP^(+) was converted to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate(NADPH).The self-powered artificial cells were demonstrated to generate ATP and NADPH successively,which provided a way for building more complicated artificial cells.