Single particle tracking: from theory to biophysical applications

H Shen, LJ Tauzin, R Baiyasi, W Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
After three decades of developments, single particle tracking (SPT) has become a powerful
tool to interrogate dynamics in a range of materials including live cells and novel catalytic …

Inorganic nanoparticles for optical bioimaging

D Jaque, C Richard, B Viana, K Soga, X Liu… - Advances in Optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The tremendous progress in the synthesis of different inorganic nanoparticles with
pretailored size, shape, structural, compositional, and surface properties has significantly …

Promiscuous interactions and protein disaggregases determine the material state of stress-inducible RNP granules

S Kroschwald, S Maharana, D Mateju, L Malinovska… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
RNA-protein (RNP) granules have been proposed to assemble by forming solid RNA/protein
aggregates or through phase separation into a liquid RNA/protein phase. Which model …

[HTML][HTML] The selective autophagy adaptor p62/SQSTM1 forms phase condensates regulated by HSP27 that facilitate the clearance of damaged lysosomes via …

ER Gallagher, ELF Holzbaur - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
In response to lysosomal damage, cells engage several quality-control mechanisms,
including the selective isolation and degradation of damaged lysosomes by lysophagy …

Different material states of Pub1 condensates define distinct modes of stress adaptation and recovery

S Kroschwald, MC Munder, S Maharana… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
How cells adapt to varying environmental conditions is largely unknown. Here, we show
that, in budding yeast, the RNA-binding and stress granule protein Pub1 has an intrinsic …

Nucleic acids modulate liquidity and dynamics of artificial membraneless organelles

J Liu, F Zhorabek, Y Chau - ACS Macro Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) emerges as a fundamental underlying mechanism
for the biological organization, especially the formation of membraneless organelles (MLOs) …

Extracellular rigidity sensing by talin isoform-specific mechanical linkages

K Austen, P Ringer, A Mehlich, A Chrostek-Grashoff… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
The ability of cells to adhere and sense differences in tissue stiffness is crucial for organ
development and function. The central mechanisms by which adherent cells detect …

Distinct focal adhesion protein modules control different aspects of mechanotransduction

B Stutchbury, P Atherton, R Tsang… - Journal of cell …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Focal adhesions (FAs) are macromolecular complexes that regulate cell adhesion and
mechanotransduction. By performing fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) …

Vinculin controls talin engagement with the actomyosin machinery

P Atherton, B Stutchbury, DY Wang, D Jethwa… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The link between extracellular-matrix-bound integrins and intracellular F-actin is essential
for cell spreading and migration. Here, we demonstrate how the actin-binding proteins talin …

Protein phase separation arising from intrinsic disorder: first-principles to bespoke applications

DM Shapiro, M Ney, SA Eghtesadi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The phase separation of biomolecules has become the focus of intense research in the past
decade, with a growing body of research implicating this phenomenon in essentially all …