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 …

The nucleolus as a multiphase liquid condensate

DLJ Lafontaine, JA Riback, R Bascetin… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
The nucleolus is the most prominent nuclear body and serves a fundamentally important
biological role as a site of ribonucleoprotein particle assembly, primarily dedicated to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid–liquid phase separation in crowded environments

AAM André, E Spruijt - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Biomolecular condensates play a key role in organizing cellular fluids such as the cytoplasm
and nucleoplasm. Most of these non-membranous organelles show liquid-like properties …

NPM1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia: from bench to bedside

B Falini, L Brunetti, P Sportoletti… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
The nucleophosmin (NPM1) gene encodes for a multifunctional protein with prominent
nucleolar localization that shuttles between nucleus and cytoplasm. NPM1 mutations …

Coexisting liquid phases underlie nucleolar subcompartments

M Feric, N Vaidya, TS Harmon, DM Mitrea, L Zhu… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The nucleolus and other ribonucleoprotein (RNP) bodies are membrane-less organelles
that appear to assemble through phase separation of their molecular components. However …

Current status and future perspectives in targeted therapy of NPM1-mutated AML

R Ranieri, G Pianigiani, S Sciabolacci, VM Perriello… - Leukemia, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) is a nucleus-cytoplasmic shuttling protein which is
predominantly located in the nucleolus and exerts multiple functions, including regulation of …

LASSI: A lattice model for simulating phase transitions of multivalent proteins

JM Choi, F Dar, RV Pappu - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Many biomolecular condensates form via spontaneous phase transitions that are driven by
multivalent proteins. These molecules are biological instantiations of associative polymers …

[HTML][HTML] Who's in and who's out—compositional control of biomolecular condensates

JA Ditlev, LB Case, MK Rosen - Journal of molecular biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Biomolecular condensates are two-and three-dimensional compartments in eukaryotic cells
that concentrate specific collections of molecules without an encapsulating membrane …

Relationship of sequence and phase separation in protein low-complexity regions

EW Martin, T Mittag - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation seems to play critical roles in the compartmentalization of
cells through the formation of biomolecular condensates. Many proteins with low-complexity …