Higher-order organization of biomolecular condensates

CM Fare, A Villani, LE Drake, J Shorter - Open biology, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A guiding principle of biology is that biochemical reactions must be organized in space and
time. One way this spatio-temporal organization is achieved is through liquid–liquid phase …

Emerging roles for phase separation in plants

RJ Emenecker, AS Holehouse, LC Strader - Developmental Cell, 2020‏ - cell.com
The plant cell internal environment is a dynamic, intricate landscape composed of many
intracellular compartments. Cells organize some cellular components through formation of …

Out of the dark and into the light: a new view of phytochrome photobodies

SA Pardi, DA Nusinow - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Light is a critical environmental stimulus for plants, serving as an energy source via
photosynthesis and a signal for developmental programming. Plants perceive light through …

The seed transcriptome of Rafflesia reveals horizontal gene transfer and convergent evolution: Implications for conserving the world's largest flower

J Molina, A Wicaksono, TP Michael… - Plants, People …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic plants with the largest flowers in
the world, unique to the threatened forest habitats of tropical Asia. Here, we report on genes …

[HTML][HTML] Designer condensates: a toolkit for the biomolecular architect

RL Hastings, S Boeynaems - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Protein phase separation has emerged as a novel paradigm to explain the biogenesis of
membraneless organelles and other so-called biomolecular condensates. While the …

Biochemical timekee** via reentrant phase transitions

B Portz, J Shorter - Journal of molecular biology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Appreciation for the role of liquid–liquid phase separation in the functional organization of
cellular matter has exploded in recent years. More recently there has been a growing effort …

A Prion-based thermosensor in plants

EG Wilkinson, LC Strader - Molecular Cell, 2020‏ - cell.com
Some prion-like domains and low-complexity regions provide the multivalency required to
facilitate protein phase separation to regulate protein function. Jung et al.(2020) …

ProXs drive the formation of membraneless organelles in plants

H Zhang, F Peng, Y Liu, H Deng, X Fang - bioRxiv, 2021‏ - biorxiv.org
Membraneless organelles (MLOs) are non-membranous structures inside cells that organize
cellular space and processes. The recent discovery that MLOs can be assembled via liquid …