Exosome biogenesis: machinery, regulation, and therapeutic implications in cancer

QF Han, WJ Li, KS Hu, J Gao, WL Zhai, JH Yang… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Exosomes are well-known key mediators of intercellular communication and contribute to
various physiological and pathological processes. Their biogenesis involves four key steps …

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 …

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 …

Sequence-dependent material properties of biomolecular condensates and their relation to dilute phase conformations

D Sundaravadivelu Devarajan, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Material properties of phase-separated biomolecular condensates, enriched with disordered
proteins, dictate many cellular functions. Contrary to the progress made in understanding the …

Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Accurate model of liquid–liquid phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins from optimization of single-chain properties

G Tesei, TK Schulze, R Crehuet… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) may undergo liquid–liquid phase separation
(LLPS) and participate in the formation of membraneless organelles in the cell, thereby …

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 …

Direct prediction of intrinsically disordered protein conformational properties from sequence

JM Lotthammer, GM Ginell, D Griffith, R Emenecker… - Biophysical …, 2024 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are ubiquitous across all domains of life and play a
range of functional roles. While folded domains are generally well-described by a stable 3D …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

Molecular interactions underlying liquid− liquid phase separation of the FUS low-complexity domain

AC Murthy, GL Dignon, Y Kan, GH Zerze… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
The low-complexity domain of the RNA-binding protein FUS (FUS LC) mediates liquid−
liquid phase separation (LLPS), but the interactions between the repetitive SYGQ-rich …