Liquid–liquid phase separation in human health and diseases

B Wang, L Zhang, T Dai, Z Qin, H Lu, L Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging evidence suggests that liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) represents a vital
and ubiquitous phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles in …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a novel principle for explaining the precise spatial
and temporal regulation in living cells. LLPS compartmentalizes proteins and nucleic acids …

Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition

TCT Michaels, D Qian, A Šarić, M Vendruscolo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of amyloid fibrils is a general class of protein self-assembly behaviour, which
is associated with both functional biology and the development of a number of disorders …

Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing

S Alberti, AA Hyman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless intracellular assemblies that often form via
liquid− liquid phase separation and have the ability to concentrate biopolymers. Research …

TDP-43 forms amyloid filaments with a distinct fold in type A FTLD-TDP

D Arseni, R Chen, AG Murzin, SY Peak-Chew… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The abnormal assembly of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) in neuronal and glial cells
characterizes nearly all cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and around half of …

α-Synuclein aggregation nucleates through liquid–liquid phase separation

S Ray, N Singh, R Kumar, K Patel, S Pandey, D Datta… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (α-Syn) aggregation and amyloid formation is directly linked with
Parkinson's disease pathogenesis. However, the early events involved in this process …

Valence and patterning of aromatic residues determine the phase behavior of prion-like domains

EW Martin, AS Holehouse, I Peran, M Farag, JJ Incicco… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Prion-like domains (PLDs) can drive liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) in cells. Using an
integrative biophysical approach that includes nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy …

Precise prediction of phase-separation key residues by machine learning

J Sun, J Qu, C Zhao, X Zhang, X Liu, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding intracellular phase separation is crucial for deciphering transcriptional
control, cell fate transitions, and disease mechanisms. However, the key residues, which …

Biomolecular phase separation: from molecular driving forces to macroscopic properties

GL Dignon, RB Best, J Mittal - Annual review of physical …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Biological phase separation is known to be important for cellular organization, which has
recently been extended to a new class of biomolecules that form liquid-like droplets …

Heteromeric amyloid filaments of ANXA11 and TDP-43 in FTLD-TDP Type C

D Arseni, T Nonaka, MH Jacobsen, AG Murzin… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the abnormal filamentous assembly of
specific proteins in the central nervous system. Human genetic studies have established a …