Liquid–liquid phase separation in human health and diseases

B Wang, L Zhang, T Dai, Z Qin, H Lu, L Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging evidence suggests that liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) represents a vital
and ubiquitous phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles in …

Machinery, regulation and pathophysiological implications of autophagosome maturation

YG Zhao, P Codogno, H Zhang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy is a versatile degradation system for maintaining cellular homeostasis whereby
cytosolic materials are sequestered in a double-membrane autophagosome and …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a novel principle for explaining the precise spatial
and temporal regulation in living cells. LLPS compartmentalizes proteins and nucleic acids …

Synthetic protein condensates for cellular and metabolic engineering

ZG Qian, SC Huang, XX Xia - Nature Chemical Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Protein condensates are distinct structures assembled in living cells that concentrate
molecules via phase separation in a confined subcellular compartment. In the past decade …

Screening membraneless organelle participants with machine-learning models that integrate multimodal features

Z Chen, C Hou, L Wang, C Yu, T Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Protein self-assembly is one of the formation mechanisms of biomolecular condensates.
However, most phase-separating systems (PS) demand multiple partners in biological …

Conformational expansion of tau in condensates promotes irreversible aggregation

J Wen, L Hong, G Krainer, QQ Yao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins into biomolecular condensates has
emerged as a fundamental principle underpinning cellular function and malfunction. Indeed …

Specificity and competition of mRNAs dominate droplet pattern in protein phase separation

F Xu, D Miao, W Li, J Jin, Z Liu, C Shen, J Zhang… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Phase separation is a ubiquitous and emerging mechanism underlying intracellular
organization. Yet how distinct molecular compositions in phase-separated condensates are …

BRD4-targeting PROTAC as a unique tool to study biomolecular condensates

Y Shi, Y Liao, Q Liu, Z Ni, Z Zhang, M Shi, P Li, H Li… - Cell Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates play key roles in various biological processes. However, specific
condensation modulators are currently lacking. PROTAC is a new technology that can use …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) in cellular physiology and tumor biology

PH Peng, KW Hsu, KJ Wu - American journal of cancer research, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as a mechanism that has been used to
explain the formation of known organelles (eg nucleoli, promyelocytic leukemia nuclear …

Post-translational modifications in liquid-liquid phase separation: a comprehensive review

J Li, M Zhang, W Ma, B Yang, H Lu, F Zhou… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has received significant attention in recent biological
studies. It refers to a phenomenon that biomolecule exceeds the solubility, condensates and …