[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

Targeting biomolecular condensation and protein aggregation against cancer

JL Silva, D Foguel, VF Ferreira, TCRG Vieira… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates, membrane-less entities arising from liquid–liquid phase
separation, hold dichotomous roles in health and disease. Alongside their physiological …

On the role of phase separation in the biogenesis of membraneless compartments

A Musacchio - The EMBO journal, 2022 - embopress.org
Molecular mechanistic biology has ushered us into the world of life's building blocks,
revealing their interactions in macromolecular complexes and inspiring strategies for …

SARS‐CoV‐2 nucleocapsid protein phase‐separates with RNA and with human hnRNPs

TM Perdikari, AC Murthy, VH Ryan, S Watters… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Tightly packed complexes of nucleocapsid protein and genomic RNA form the core of
viruses and assemble within viral factories, dynamic compartments formed within the host …

FUS and TDP-43 phases in health and disease

B Portz, BL Lee, J Shorter - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The distinct prion-like domains (PrLDs) of FUS and TDP-43, modulate phase transitions that
result in condensates with a range of material states. These assemblies are implicated in …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation of FUS is suppressed by its nuclear import receptor and arginine methylation

M Hofweber, S Hutten, B Bourgeois, E Spreitzer… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cytoplasmic FUS aggregates are a pathological hallmark in a subset of patients with
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A key step that is …

Phosphorylation of the FUS low‐complexity domain disrupts phase separation, aggregation, and toxicity

Z Monahan, VH Ryan, AM Janke, KA Burke… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Neuronal inclusions of aggregated RNA‐binding protein fused in sarcoma (FUS) are
hallmarks of ALS and frontotemporal dementia subtypes. Intriguingly, FUS's nearly …

N 6-methyladenosine alters RNA structure to regulate binding of a low-complexity protein

N Liu, KI Zhou, M Parisien, Q Dai… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant internal modification in
eukaryotic messenger RNA (mRNA), and affects almost every stage of the mRNA life cycle …

Protein phase separation: a new phase in cell biology

S Boeynaems, S Alberti, NL Fawzi, T Mittag… - Trends in cell …, 2018 - cell.com
Cellular compartments and organelles organize biological matter. Most well-known
organelles are separated by a membrane boundary from their surrounding milieu. There are …

Emerging roles for intermolecular RNA-RNA interactions in RNP assemblies

B Van Treeck, R Parker - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Eukaryotic cells contain large assemblies of RNA and protein, referred to as
ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules, which include cytoplasmic P-bodies, stress granules, and …