Molecular crowding: the history and development of a scientific paradigm

C Alfano, Y Fichou, K Huber, M Weiss, E Spruijt… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
It is now generally accepted that macromolecules do not act in isolation but “live” in a
crowded environment, that is, an environment populated by numerous different molecules …

Protein misfolding and amyloid nucleation through liquid–liquid phase separation

S Mukherjee, M Poudyal, K Dave, P Kadu… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is an emerging phenomenon in cell physiology and
diseases. The weak multivalent interaction prerequisite for LLPS is believed to be facilitated …

Evidence for widespread cytoplasmic structuring into mesoscale condensates

FC Keber, T Nguyen, A Mariossi, CP Brangwynne… - Nature cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Compartmentalization is an essential feature of eukaryotic life and is achieved both via
membrane-bound organelles, such as mitochondria, and membrane-less biomolecular …

Cold induction of nuclear FRIGIDA condensation in Arabidopsis

Z Zhang, X Luo, Y Yang, Y He - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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Defining basic rules for hardening influenza A virus liquid condensates

TA Etibor, S Vale-Costa, S Sridharan, D Brás, I Becher… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
In biological systems, liquid and solid-like biomolecular condensates may contain the same
molecules but their behaviour, including movement, elasticity, and viscosity, is different on …

MolPhase, an advanced prediction algorithm for protein phase separation

Q Liang, N Peng, Y Xie, N Kumar, W Gao… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
We introduce MolPhase, an advanced algorithm for predicting protein phase separation
(PS) behavior that improves accuracy and reliability by utilizing diverse physicochemical …

Reply to: Cold induction of nuclear FRIGIDA condensation in Arabidopsis

P Zhu, C Dean - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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Transcriptional condensates: a blessing or a curse for gene regulation?

M Stortz, DM Presman, V Levi - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Whether phase-separation is involved in the organization of the transcriptional machinery
and if it aids or inhibits the transcriptional process is a matter of intense debate. In this Mini …

Label-Free Techniques for Probing Biomolecular Condensates

KA Ibrahim, AS Naidu, H Miljkovic, A Radenovic… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates play important roles in a wide array of fundamental biological
processes, such as cellular compartmentalization, cellular regulation, and other biochemical …

Interplay of condensation and chromatin binding underlies BRD4 targeting

AR Strom, JM Eeftens, Y Polyachenko… - Molecular biology of …, 2024 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Nuclear compartments form via biomolecular phase separation, mediated through
multivalent properties of biomolecules concentrated within condensates. Certain …