Single-molecule localization microscopy

M Lelek, MT Gyparaki, G Beliu, F Schueder… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) describes a family of powerful imaging
techniques that dramatically improve spatial resolution over standard, diffraction-limited …

Transcription regulation by biomolecular condensates

G Pei, H Lyons, P Li, BR Sabari - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates regulate transcription by dynamically compartmentalizing the
transcription machinery. Classic models of transcription regulation focus on the recruitment …

[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] Direct observation of a condensate effect on super-enhancer controlled gene bursting

M Du, SH Stitzinger, JH Spille, WK Cho, C Lee, M Hijaz… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Enhancers are distal DNA elements believed to loop and contact promoters to control gene
expression. Recently, we found diffraction-sized transcriptional condensates at genes …

RNA-mediated feedback control of transcriptional condensates

JE Henninger, O Oksuz, K Shrinivas, I Sagi, G LeRoy… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Regulation of biological processes typically incorporates mechanisms that initiate and
terminate the process and, where understood, these mechanisms often involve feedback …

Nuclear compartmentalization as a mechanism of quantitative control of gene expression

P Bhat, D Honson, M Guttman - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Gene regulation requires the dynamic coordination of hundreds of regulatory factors at
precise genomic and RNA targets. Although many regulatory factors have specific affinity for …

Learning the chemical grammar of biomolecular condensates

HR Kilgore, RA Young - Nature chemical biology, 2022 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates compartmentalize and regulate assemblies of biomolecules
engaged in vital physiological processes in cells. Specific proteins and nucleic acids …

Biomolecular condensates in the nucleus

BR Sabari, A Dall'Agnese, RA Young - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Nuclear processes such as DNA replication, transcription, and RNA processing each
depend on the concerted action of many different protein and RNA molecules. How …

Mediator and RNA polymerase II clusters associate in transcription-dependent condensates

WK Cho, JH Spille, M Hecht, C Lee, C Li, V Grube… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Models of gene control have emerged from genetic and biochemical studies, with limited
consideration of the spatial organization and dynamics of key components in living cells. We …

[HTML][HTML] Organization of chromatin by intrinsic and regulated phase separation

BA Gibson, LK Doolittle, MWG Schneider, LE Jensen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Eukaryotic chromatin is highly condensed but dynamically accessible to regulation and
organized into subdomains. We demonstrate that reconstituted chromatin undergoes …