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 …

RNA is a critical element for the sizing and the composition of phase-separated RNA–protein condensates

M Garcia-Jove Navarro, S Kashida, R Chouaib… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation is thought to be a key organizing principle in eukaryotic cells
to generate highly concentrated dynamic assemblies, such as the RNP granules. Numerous …

[HTML][HTML] G3BP1 is a tunable switch that triggers phase separation to assemble stress granules

P Yang, C Mathieu, RM Kolaitis, P Zhang, J Messing… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The mechanisms underlying ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granule assembly, including the basis
for establishing and maintaining RNP granules with distinct composition, are unknown. One …

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 …

RNA droplets

K Rhine, V Vidaurre, S Myong - Annual review of biophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation is emerging as the universal mechanism by which
membraneless cellular granules form. Despite many previous studies on condensation of …

Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein− RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties

S Boeynaems, AS Holehouse… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Phase separation of multivalent protein and RNA molecules underlies the biogenesis of
biomolecular condensates such as membraneless organelles. In vivo, these condensates …

RNA-binding and prion domains: the Yin and Yang of phase separation

NL Gotor, A Armaos, G Calloni… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Proteins and RNAs assemble in membrane-less organelles that organize intracellular
spaces and regulate biochemical reactions. The ability of proteins and RNAs to form …

High-fidelity reconstitution of stress granules and nucleoli in mammalian cellular lysate

BD Freibaum, J Messing, P Yang, HJ Kim… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a mechanism of intracellular organization that
underlies the assembly of a variety of RNP granules. Fundamental biophysical principles …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in biology: specific stoichiometric molecular interactions vs promiscuous interactions mediated by disordered sequences

Z Feng, B Jia, M Zhang - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Extensive studies in the past few years have shown that nonmembrane bound organelles
are likely assembled via liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS), a process that is driven by …

Sequence-encoded and composition-dependent protein-RNA interactions control multiphasic condensate morphologies

T Kaur, M Raju, I Alshareedah, RB Davis… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Multivalent protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions are the drivers of biological phase
separation. Biomolecular condensates typically contain a dense network of multiple proteins …