A framework for understanding the functions of biomolecular condensates across scales

AS Lyon, WB Peeples, MK Rosen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are found throughout eukaryotic cells, including in the nucleus, in
the cytoplasm and on membranes. They are also implicated in a wide range of cellular …

Cell competition in development, homeostasis and cancer

SM van Neerven, L Vermeulen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Organ development and homeostasis involve dynamic interactions between individual cells
that collectively regulate tissue architecture and function. To ensure the highest tissue …

Diverse clonal fates emerge upon drug treatment of homogeneous cancer cells

Y Goyal, GT Busch, M Pillai, J Li, RH Boe, EI Grody… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Even among genetically identical cancer cells, resistance to therapy frequently emerges
from a small subset of those cells,,,,,–. Molecular differences in rare individual cells in the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison and evaluation of statistical error models for scRNA-seq

S Choudhary, R Satija - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Heterogeneity in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data is driven by multiple
sources, including biological variation in cellular state as well as technical variation …

The epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity landscape: principles of design and mechanisms of regulation

J Haerinck, S Goossens, G Berx - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) enables cells to interconvert between several
states across the epithelial–mesenchymal landscape, thereby acquiring hybrid epithelial …

Thermodynamic unification of optimal transport: Thermodynamic uncertainty relation, minimum dissipation, and thermodynamic speed limits

T Van Vu, K Saito - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Thermodynamics serves as a universal means for studying physical systems from an energy
perspective. In recent years, with the establishment of the field of stochastic and quantum …

[HTML][HTML] A unique microglia type associated with restricting development of Alzheimer's disease

H Keren-Shaul, A Spinrad, A Weiner… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a detrimental neurodegenerative disease with no effective
treatments. Due to cellular heterogeneity, defining the roles of immune cell subsets in AD …

[HTML][HTML] A phase separation model for transcriptional control

D Hnisz, K Shrinivas, RA Young, AK Chakraborty… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Phase-separated multi-molecular assemblies provide a general regulatory mechanism to
compartmentalize biochemical reactions within cells. We propose that a phase separation …

Escherichia coli “Marionette” strains with 12 highly optimized small-molecule sensors

AJ Meyer, TH Segall-Shapiro, E Glassey… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Cellular processes are carried out by many genes, and their study and optimization requires
multiple levers by which they can be independently controlled. The most common method is …

Spontaneous deracemizations

T Buhse, JM Cruz, ME Noble-Teran… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
research. In the absence of any chiral inductors, an achiral substance or a racemic …