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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Functional partitioning of transcriptional regulators by patterned charge blocks

H Lyons, RT Veettil, P Pradhan, C Fornero… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Components of transcriptional machinery are selectively partitioned into specific
condensates, often mediated by protein disorder, yet we know little about how this specificity …

Composition-dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation

JA Riback, L Zhu, MC Ferrolino, M Tolbert, DM Mitrea… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Intracellular bodies such as nucleoli, Cajal bodies and various signalling assemblies
represent membraneless organelles, or condensates, that form via liquid–liquid phase …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancer features that drive formation of transcriptional condensates

K Shrinivas, BR Sabari, EL Coffey, IA Klein, A Boija… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Enhancers are DNA elements that are bound by transcription factors (TFs), which recruit
coactivators and the transcriptional machinery to genes. Phase-separated condensates of …

TDP-43 α-helical structure tunes liquid–liquid phase separation and function

AE Conicella, GL Dignon, GH Zerze… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is involved in the formation of membraneless
organelles (MLOs) associated with RNA processing. The RNA-binding protein TDP-43 is …

LASSI: A lattice model for simulating phase transitions of multivalent proteins

JM Choi, F Dar, RV Pappu - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Many biomolecular condensates form via spontaneous phase transitions that are driven by
multivalent proteins. These molecules are biological instantiations of associative polymers …

Relation between single-molecule properties and phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins

GL Dignon, W Zheng, RB Best, YC Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Proteins that undergo liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) have been shown to play a
critical role in many physiological functions through formation of condensed liquid-like …

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 …

Improved coarse‐grained model for studying sequence dependent phase separation of disordered proteins

RM Regy, J Thompson, YC Kim, J Mittal - Protein Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present improvements to the hydropathy scale (HPS) coarse‐grained (CG) model for
simulating sequence‐specific behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), including …