Engineering synthetic biomolecular condensates

Y Dai, L You, A Chilkoti - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of phase-separation-mediated formation of biomolecular condensates provides
a new framework to understand cellular organization and cooperativity-dependent cellular …

Advances in understanding stimulus-responsive phase behavior of intrinsically disordered protein polymers

KM Ruff, S Roberts, A Chilkoti, RV Pappu - Journal of molecular biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Proteins and synthetic polymers can undergo phase transitions in response to changes to
intensive solution parameters such as temperature, proton chemical potentials (pH), and …

Liquid-liquid phase separation drives skin barrier formation

FG Quiroz, VF Fiore, J Levorse, L Polak, E Wong… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Liquid-liquid phase separation of biopolymers has emerged as a driving
force for assembling membraneless biomolecular condensates. Despite substantial …

[HTML][HTML] Elastin-like polypeptides as models of intrinsically disordered proteins

S Roberts, M Dzuricky, A Chilkoti - FEBS letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are a class of stimuli-responsive biopolymers inspired by
the intrinsically disordered domains of tropoelastin that are composed of repeats of the …

Effects of pH alterations on stress-and aging-induced protein phase separation

X **, M Zhou, S Chen, D Li, X Cao, B Liu - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2022 - Springer
Upon stress challenges, proteins/RNAs undergo liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) to
fine-tune cell physiology and metabolism to help cells adapt to adverse environments. The …

Applications of elastin-like polypeptides in drug delivery

SR MacEwan, A Chilkoti - Journal of Controlled Release, 2014 - Elsevier
Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are biopolymers inspired by human elastin. Their lower
critical solution temperature phase transition behavior and biocompatibility make them …

A Unified Model for De Novo Design of Elastin-like Polypeptides with Tunable Inverse Transition Temperatures

JR McDaniel, DC Radford, A Chilkoti - Biomacromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are stimulus-responsive peptide polymers that exhibit
inverse temperature phase transition behavior, causing an ELP to aggregate above its …

[HTML][HTML] Mis-splicing of a neuronal microexon promotes CPEB4 aggregation in ASD

C Garcia-Cabau, A Bartomeu, G Tesei, KC Cheung… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
The inclusion of microexons by alternative splicing occurs frequently in neuronal proteins.
The roles of these sequences are largely unknown, and changes in their degree of inclusion …

Translatable high drug loading drug delivery systems based on biocompatible polymer nanocarriers

W Chen, S Zhou, L Ge, W Wu, X Jiang - Biomacromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Most nanocarriers possess low drug loading, resulting in frequently repeated administration
and thereby high cost and increased side effects. Furthermore, the characteristics of …

Protein-based nanoparticles for therapeutic nucleic acid delivery

F Eweje, ML Walsh, K Ahmad, V Ibrahim, A Alrefai… - Biomaterials, 2024 - Elsevier
To realize the full potential of emerging nucleic acid therapies, there is a need for effective
delivery agents to transport cargo to cells of interest. Protein materials exhibit several unique …