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In water, phosphoric membrane molecule (V(-)) self-assembled to form an anionic giant vesicle, the surface of which served as a catalyst for the autocatalytic formation of V(-) from its membrane precursor (V*), and the amplified V(-) produced a new vesicle using the original vesicle as a scaffold.
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Takahashi et al. (2010) studied this question.
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