Nuclear compartmentalization as a mechanism of quantitative control of gene expression

P Bhat, D Honson, M Guttman - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Gene regulation requires the dynamic coordination of hundreds of regulatory factors at
precise genomic and RNA targets. Although many regulatory factors have specific affinity for …

Biomolecular condensates in the nucleus

BR Sabari, A Dall'Agnese, RA Young - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Nuclear processes such as DNA replication, transcription, and RNA processing each
depend on the concerted action of many different protein and RNA molecules. How …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Transcription factors interact with RNA to regulate genes

O Oksuz, JE Henninger, R Warneford-Thomson… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) orchestrate the gene expression programs that define each cell's
identity. The canonical TF accomplishes this with two domains, one that binds specific DNA …

[HTML][HTML] RNA-mediated feedback control of transcriptional condensates

JE Henninger, O Oksuz, K Shrinivas, I Sagi, G LeRoy… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Regulation of biological processes typically incorporates mechanisms that initiate and
terminate the process and, where understood, these mechanisms often involve feedback …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Reversible phase separation of HSF1 is required for an acute transcriptional response during heat shock

H Zhang, S Shao, Y Zeng, X Wang, Y Qin, Q Ren… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Heat-shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) orchestrates the fast and vast cellular response to
heat shock through increased expression of heat-shock proteins. However, how HSF1 …

[HTML][HTML] Protein condensation diseases: therapeutic opportunities

M Vendruscolo, M Fuxreiter - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Condensed states of proteins, including liquid-like membraneless organelles and solid-like
aggregates, contribute in fundamental ways to the organisation and function of the cell …

Chromatin Velocity reveals epigenetic dynamics by single-cell profiling of heterochromatin and euchromatin

M Tedesco, F Giannese, D Lazarević, V Giansanti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent efforts have succeeded in surveying open chromatin at the single-cell level, but high-
throughput, single-cell assessment of heterochromatin and its underlying genomic …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in chromatin

K Rippe - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In eukaryotic cells, protein and RNA factors involved in genome activities like transcription,
RNA processing, DNA replication, and repair accumulate in self-organizing membraneless …