Acetylation of intrinsically disordered regions regulates phase separation

M Saito, D Hess, J Eglinger, AW Fritsch… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins containing intrinsically disordered regions
(IDRs) has been proposed as a mechanism underlying the formation of membrane-less …

[HTML][HTML] YTHDC2 is essential for pachytene progression and prevents aberrant microtubule-driven telomere clustering in male meiosis

R Liu, SD Kasowitz, D Homolka, NA Leu, JT Shaked… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Mechanisms driving the prolonged meiotic prophase I in mammals are poorly understood.
RNA helicase YTHDC2 is critical for mitosis to meiosis transition. However, YTHDC2 is …

The DDX3 subfamily of the DEAD box helicases: divergent roles as unveiled by studying different organisms and in vitro assays

A Rosner, B Rinkevich - Current medicinal chemistry, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
DDX3 (or Ded1p), the highly conserved subfamily of the DEAD-box RNA helicase family (40
members in humans), plays important roles in RNA metabolism. DDX3X and DDX3Y, the …

DDX3 regulates cell growth through translational control of cyclin E1

MC Lai, WC Chang, SY Shieh… - Molecular and cellular …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
DDX3 belongs to the DEAD box family of RNA helicases, but the details of its biological
function remain largely unclear. Here we show that knockdown of DDX3 expression …

G-quadruplex RNA binding and recognition by the lysine-specific histone demethylase-1 enzyme

A Hirschi, WJ Martin, Z Luka, LV Loukachevitch… - Rna, 2016 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Lysine-specific histone demethylase 1 (LSD1) is an essential epigenetic regulator in
metazoans and requires the co-r epressor e lement-1 s ilencing t ranscription factor …

DDX3Y, a Male-Specific Region of Y Chromosome Gene, May Modulate Neuronal Differentiation

H Vakilian, M Mirzaei, M Sharifi Tabar… - Journal of proteome …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Although it is apparent that chromosome complement mediates sexually dimorphic
expression patterns of some proteins that lead to functional differences, there has been …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative structural analysis of human DEAD-box RNA helicases

P Schütz, T Karlberg, S van den Berg, R Collins… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
DEAD-box RNA helicases play various, often critical, roles in all processes where RNAs are
involved. Members of this family of proteins are linked to human disease, including cancer …

[HTML][HTML] DDX5 RNA helicases: emerging roles in viral infection

W Cheng, G Chen, H Jia, X He, Z Jing - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD)-box polypeptide 5 (DDX5), also called p68, is a prototypical
member of the large ATP-dependent RNA helicases family and is known to participate in all …

Binding to m6A RNA promotes YTHDF2-mediated phase separation

J Wang, L Wang, J Diao, YG Shi, Y Shi, H Ma… - Protein & …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As one of the most abundant modifications on mRNA in mammal, N6-methyladenosine
(m6A) has been demonstrated to play important roles in various biological processes …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation of DNA: From past to present

JT King, A Shakya - Biophysical Journal, 2021 - cell.com
Phase separation of biological molecules, such as nucleic acids and proteins, has garnered
widespread attention across many fields in recent years. For instance, liquid-liquid phase …