Modulating biomolecular condensates: a novel approach to drug discovery

DM Mitrea, M Mittasch, BF Gomes, IA Klein… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
In the past decade, membraneless assemblies known as biomolecular condensates have
been reported to play key roles in many cellular functions by compartmentalizing specific …

Co-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes and prokaryotes

M Shine, J Gordon, L Schärfen, D Zigackova… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Many steps of RNA processing occur during transcription by RNA polymerases. Co-
transcriptional activities are deemed commonplace in prokaryotes, in which the lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Functional partitioning of transcriptional regulators by patterned charge blocks

H Lyons, RT Veettil, P Pradhan, C Fornero… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Components of transcriptional machinery are selectively partitioned into specific
condensates, often mediated by protein disorder, yet we know little about how this specificity …

[HTML][HTML] Transcription factors activate genes through the phase-separation capacity of their activation domains

A Boija, IA Klein, BR Sabari, A Dall'Agnese, EL Coffey… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Gene expression is controlled by transcription factors (TFs) that consist of DNA-binding
domains (DBDs) and activation domains (ADs). The DBDs have been well characterized …

Imaging dynamic and selective low-complexity domain interactions that control gene transcription

S Chong, C Dugast-Darzacq, Z Liu, P Dong, GM Dailey… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION DNA binding transcription factors (TFs) are quintessential regulators of
eukaryotic gene expression. Early studies of TFs revealed their well-structured DNA binding …

UTX condensation underlies its tumour-suppressive activity

B Shi, W Li, Y Song, Z Wang, R Ju, A Ulman, J Hu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
UTX (also known as KDM6A) encodes a histone H3K27 demethylase and is an important
tumour suppressor that is frequently mutated in human cancers. However, as the …

An activity-specificity trade-off encoded in human transcription factors

J Naderi, AP Magalhaes, G Kibar, G Stik, Y Zhang… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) control specificity and activity of gene transcription, but whether a
relationship between these two features exists is unclear. Here we provide evidence for an …

Formation of chromatin subcompartments by phase separation

F Erdel, K Rippe - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
Chromatin is partitioned on multiple length scales into subcompartments that differ from
each other with respect to their molecular composition and biological function. It is a key …

Heritable transcriptional defects from aberrations of nuclear architecture

S Papathanasiou, NA Mynhier, S Liu, G Brunette… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Transcriptional heterogeneity due to plasticity of the epigenetic state of chromatin
contributes to tumour evolution, metastasis and drug resistance,–. However, the …