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 …

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 …

MobiDB: 10 years of intrinsically disordered proteins

D Piovesan, A Del Conte, D Clementel… - Nucleic acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The MobiDB database (URL: https://mobidb. org/) is a knowledge base of intrinsically
disordered proteins. MobiDB aggregates disorder annotations derived from the literature …

ELM—the Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource—2024 update

M Kumar, S Michael, J Alvarado-Valverde… - Nucleic acids …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Short Linear Motifs (SLiMs) are the smallest structural and functional components of
modular eukaryotic proteins. They are also the most abundant, especially when considering …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of stress granule assembly and disassembly

S Hofmann, N Kedersha, P Anderson… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Stress granules (SGs) are membrane-less ribonucleoprotein (RNP)-based cellular
compartments that form in the cytoplasm of a cell upon exposure to various environmental …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular language of membraneless organelles

E Gomes, J Shorter - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Eukaryotic cells organize their intracellular components into organelles that can be
membrane-bound or membraneless. A large number of membraneless organelles, including …

It's not just a phase: function and characteristics of RNA-binding proteins in phase separation

HJ Wiedner, J Giudice - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates that form via phase separation are increasingly regarded as
coordinators of cellular reactions that regulate a wide variety of biological phenomena …

MobiDB: intrinsically disordered proteins in 2021

D Piovesan, M Necci, N Escobedo… - Nucleic acids …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The MobiDB database (URL: https://mobidb. org/) provides predictions and annotations for
intrinsically disordered proteins. Here, we report recent developments implemented in …

[HTML][HTML] The control centers of biomolecular phase separation: how membrane surfaces, PTMs, and active processes regulate condensation

WT Snead, AS Gladfelter - Molecular cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
Biomolecular condensation is emerging as an essential process for cellular
compartmentalization. The formation of biomolecular condensates can be driven by liquid …

Multiscale simulations of biological membranes: the challenge to understand biological phenomena in a living substance

G Enkavi, M Javanainen, W Kulig, T Róg… - Chemical …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …