Biomolecular condensates: organizers of cellular biochemistry

SF Banani, HO Lee, AA Hyman… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are micron-scale compartments in eukaryotic cells that lack
surrounding membranes but function to concentrate proteins and nucleic acids. These …

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 …

Compositional control of phase-separated cellular bodies

SF Banani, AM Rice, WB Peeples, Y Lin, S Jain… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Cellular bodies such as P bodies and PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs) appear to be phase-
separated liquids organized by multivalent interactions among proteins and RNA molecules …

Probing and engineering liquid-phase organelles

D Bracha, MT Walls, CP Brangwynne - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Cells compartmentalize their intracellular environment to orchestrate countless
simultaneous biochemical processes. Many intracellular tasks rely on membrane-less …

Cancer mutations of the tumor suppressor SPOP disrupt the formation of active, phase-separated compartments

JJ Bouchard, JH Otero, DC Scott, E Szulc, EW Martin… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Mutations in the tumor suppressor SPOP (speckle-type POZ protein) cause prostate, breast,
and other solid tumors. SPOP is a substrate adaptor of the cullin3-RING ubiquitin ligase and …

[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 …

PML nuclear bodies and chromatin dynamics: catch me if you can!

A Corpet, C Kleijwegt, S Roubille, F Juillard… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic cells compartmentalize their internal milieu in order to achieve specific reactions
in time and space. This organization in distinct compartments is essential to allow …

Intrinsically disordered sequences enable modulation of protein phase separation through distributed tyrosine motifs

Y Lin, SL Currie, MK Rosen - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2017 - ASBMB
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is thought to contribute to the establishment of many
biomolecular condensates, eukaryotic cell structures that concentrate diverse …

Regulation of transmembrane signaling by phase separation

LB Case, JA Ditlev, MK Rosen - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Cell surface transmembrane receptors often form nanometer-to micrometer-scale clusters to
initiate signal transduction in response to environmental cues. Extracellular ligand …

PML nuclear bodies

V Lallemand-Breitenbach - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
PML nuclear bodies are matrix-associated domains that recruit an astonishing variety of
seemingly unrelated proteins. Since their discovery in the early 1960s, PML bodies have …