Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing

S Alberti, AA Hyman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless intracellular assemblies that often form via
liquid− liquid phase separation and have the ability to concentrate biopolymers. Research …

A framework for understanding the functions of biomolecular condensates across scales

AS Lyon, WB Peeples, MK Rosen - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are found throughout eukaryotic cells, including in the nucleus, in
the cytoplasm and on membranes. They are also implicated in a wide range of cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Competing protein-RNA interaction networks control multiphase intracellular organization

DW Sanders, N Kedersha, DSW Lee, AR Strom… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) mediates formation of membraneless condensates
such as those associated with RNA processing, but the rules that dictate their assembly …

Recent progress in the science of complex coacervation

CE Sing, SL Perry - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex coacervation is an associative, liquid–liquid phase separation that can occur in
solutions of oppositely-charged macromolecular species, such as proteins, polymers, and …

Long-range enhancer–promoter contacts in gene expression control

S Schoenfelder, P Fraser - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Spatiotemporal gene expression programmes are orchestrated by transcriptional
enhancers, which are key regulatory DNA elements that engage in physical contacts with …

Regulation of biomolecular condensates by interfacial protein clusters

AW Folkmann, A Putnam, CF Lee, G Seydoux - Science, 2021 - science.org
Biomolecular condensates are cellular compartments that can form by phase separation in
the absence of limiting membranes. Studying the P granules of Caenorhabditis elegans, we …

RNA contributions to the form and function of biomolecular condensates

C Roden, AS Gladfelter - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensation partitions cellular contents and has important roles in stress
responses, maintaining homeostasis, development and disease. Many nuclear and …

HSP70 chaperones RNA-free TDP-43 into anisotropic intranuclear liquid spherical shells

H Yu, S Lu, K Gasior, D Singh, S Vazquez-Sanchez… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Aggregation of the RNA binding protein TDP-43 (TAR DNA-binding protein
43) is a common pathological hallmark shared by several age-related neurodegenerative …

Protein condensates as aging Maxwell fluids

L Jawerth, E Fischer-Friedrich, S Saha, J Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Protein condensates are complex fluids that can change their material properties with time.
However, an appropriate rheological description of these fluids remains missing. We …

Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease

Y Shin, CP Brangwynne - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Living cells contain distinct subcompartments to facilitate spatiotemporal
regulation of biological reactions. In addition to canonical membrane-bound organelles such …