Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease

Y Shin, CP Brangwynne - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Living cells contain distinct subcompartments to facilitate spatiotemporal
regulation of biological reactions. In addition to canonical membrane-bound organelles such …

Physical principles underlying the complex biology of intracellular phase transitions

JM Choi, AS Holehouse… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Many biomolecular condensates appear to form via spontaneous or driven processes that
have the hallmarks of intracellular phase transitions. This suggests that a common …

Liquid-liquid phase separation in biology

AA Hyman, CA Weber, F Jülicher - Annual review of cell and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Cells organize many of their biochemical reactions in non-membrane compartments. Recent
evidence has shown that many of these compartments are liquids that form by phase …

Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions

CP Brangwynne, P Tompa, RV Pappu - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Intracellular organelles are either membrane-bound vesicles or membrane-less
compartments that are made up of proteins and RNA. These organelles play key biological …

Once and only once: mechanisms of centriole duplication and their deregulation in disease

EA Nigg, AJ Holland - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Centrioles are conserved microtubule-based organelles that form the core of the centrosome
and act as templates for the formation of cilia and flagella. Centrioles have important roles in …

The centrosome is a selective condensate that nucleates microtubules by concentrating tubulin

JB Woodruff, BF Gomes, PO Widlund, J Mahamid… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Centrosomes are non-membrane-bound compartments that nucleate microtubule arrays.
They consist of nanometer-scale centrioles surrounded by a micron-scale, dynamic …

Ki-67 acts as a biological surfactant to disperse mitotic chromosomes

S Cuylen, C Blaukopf, AZ Politi, T Müller-Reichert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Eukaryotic genomes are partitioned into chromosomes that form compact and spatially well-
separated mechanical bodies during mitosis,,. This enables chromosomes to move …

Physical principles of intracellular organization via active and passive phase transitions

J Berry, CP Brangwynne… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Exciting recent developments suggest that phase transitions represent an important and
ubiquitous mechanism underlying intracellular organization. We describe key experimental …

Centrosome function and assembly in animal cells

PT Conduit, A Wainman, JW Raff - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2015 - nature.com
It has become clear that the role of centrosomes extends well beyond that of important
microtubule organizers. There is increasing evidence that they also function as coordination …

Phosphorylation-mediated RNA/peptide complex coacervation as a model for intracellular liquid organelles

WM Aumiller Jr, CD Keating - Nature chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
Biological cells are highly organized, with numerous subcellular compartments.
Phosphorylation has been hypothesized as a means to control the assembly/disassembly of …