Molecular and environmental determinants of biomolecular condensate formation

JA Villegas, M Heidenreich, ED Levy - Nature chemical biology, 2022 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensate formation has been implicated in a host of biological processes
and has found relevance in biology and disease. Understanding the physical principles and …

In-cell NMR: Why and how?

FX Theillet, E Luchinat - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2022 - Elsevier
NMR spectroscopy has been applied to cells and tissues analysis since its beginnings, as
early as 1950. We have attempted to gather here in a didactic fashion the broad diversity of …

A solid beta-sheet structure is formed at the surface of FUS droplets during aging

L Emmanouilidis, E Bartalucci, Y Kan, M Ijavi… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Phase transitions are important to understand cell dynamics, and the maturation of liquid
droplets is relevant to neurodegenerative disorders. We combined NMR and Raman …

Liquid–liquid phase separation modifies the dynamic properties of intrinsically disordered proteins

S Guseva, V Schnapka, W Adamski… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation of flexible biomolecules has been identified as a ubiquitous
phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles that harbor a multitude …

Specific protein-RNA interactions are mostly preserved in biomolecular condensates

T de Vries, M Novakovic, Y Ni, I Smok, C Inghelram… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Many biomolecular condensates are enriched in and depend on RNAs and RNA binding
proteins (RBPs). So far, only a few studies have addressed the characterization of the …

Benchmark test and guidelines for DEER/PELDOR experiments on nitroxide-labeled biomolecules

O Schiemann, CA Heubach, D Abdullin… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Distance distribution information obtained by pulsed dipolar EPR spectroscopy provides an
important contribution to many studies in structural biology. Increasingly, such information is …

Single-molecule FRET unmasks structural subpopulations and crucial molecular events during FUS low-complexity domain phase separation

A Joshi, A Walimbe, A Avni, SK Rai, L Arora… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates formed via phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids are
thought to be associated with a wide range of cellular functions and dysfunctions. We dissect …

Specificity and competition of mRNAs dominate droplet pattern in protein phase separation

F Xu, D Miao, W Li, J **, Z Liu, C Shen, J Zhang… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Phase separation is a ubiquitous and emerging mechanism underlying intracellular
organization. Yet how distinct molecular compositions in phase-separated condensates are …

Exploring protein conformations in vitro and in cell with EPR distance measurements

D Goldfarb - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
The electron–electron double resonance (DEER) method, which provides distance
distributions between two spin labels, attached site specifically to biomolecules (proteins …

Non-specific adhesive forces between filaments and membraneless organelles

TJ Böddeker, KA Rosowski, D Berchtold… - Nature physics, 2022 - nature.com
Many membraneless organelles are liquid-like domains that form inside the active,
viscoelastic environment of living cells through phase separation. To investigate the …