Biomolecular phase separation: from molecular driving forces to macroscopic properties

GL Dignon, RB Best, J Mittal - Annual review of physical …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Biological phase separation is known to be important for cellular organization, which has
recently been extended to a new class of biomolecules that form liquid-like droplets …

Biomolecular condensates and cancer

A Boija, IA Klein, RA Young - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant transformation is characterized by dysregulation of diverse cellular processes that
have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies, but only …

Physics-driven coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase separation with near-quantitative accuracy

JA Joseph, A Reinhardt, A Aguirre, PY Chew… - Nature computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Various physics-and data-driven sequence-dependent protein coarse-grained models have
been developed to study biomolecular phase separation and elucidate the dominant …

Accurate model of liquid–liquid phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins from optimization of single-chain properties

G Tesei, TK Schulze, R Crehuet… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) may undergo liquid–liquid phase separation
(LLPS) and participate in the formation of membraneless organelles in the cell, thereby …

A prion-like domain in ELF3 functions as a thermosensor in Arabidopsis

JH Jung, AD Barbosa, S Hutin, JR Kumita, M Gao… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Temperature controls plant growth and development, and climate change has already
altered the phenology of wild plants and crops. However, the mechanisms by which plants …

Deciphering how naturally occurring sequence features impact the phase behaviours of disordered prion-like domains

A Bremer, M Farag, WM Borcherds, I Peran… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prion-like low-complexity domains (PLCDs) have distinctive sequence grammars that
determine their driving forces for phase separation. Here we uncover the physicochemical …

Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions

G Krainer, TJ Welsh, JA Joseph, P St George-Hyslop… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
Many cellular proteins demix spontaneously from solution to form liquid condensates. These
phase-separated structures have wide-ranging roles in health and disease. Elucidating the …

Targeting biomolecular condensation and protein aggregation against cancer

JL Silva, D Foguel, VF Ferreira, TCRG Vieira… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates, membrane-less entities arising from liquid–liquid phase
separation, hold dichotomous roles in health and disease. Alongside their physiological …

Fundamental aspects of phase-separated biomolecular condensates

HX Zhou, D Kota, S Qin, R Prasad - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates, formed through phase separation, are upending our
understanding in much of molecular, cell, and developmental biology. There is an urgent …

Identifying sequence perturbations to an intrinsically disordered protein that determine its phase-separation behavior

BS Schuster, GL Dignon, WS Tang, FM Kelley… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) commonly underlies the
formation of membraneless organelles, which compartmentalize molecules intracellularly in …