Hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases

DM Wilson, MR Cookson, L Van Den Bosch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Decades of research have identified genetic factors and biochemical pathways involved in
neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). We present evidence for the following eight hallmarks …

Stress granules and neurodegeneration

B Wolozin, P Ivanov - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Recent advances suggest that the response of RNA metabolism to stress has an important
role in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly amyotrophic lateral …

Stress granules and processing bodies in translational control

P Ivanov, N Kedersha… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Stress granules (SGs) and processing bodies (PBs) are non-membrane-enclosed RNA
granules that dynamically sequester translationally inactive messenger ribonucleoprotein …

Structural and hydrodynamic properties of an intrinsically disordered region of a germ cell-specific protein on phase separation

JP Brady, PJ Farber, A Sekhar, YH Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Membrane encapsulation is frequently used by the cell to sequester biomolecules and
compartmentalize their function. Cells also concentrate molecules into phase-separated …

A new phase of networking: the molecular composition and regulatory dynamics of mammalian stress granules

SR Millar, JQ Huang, KJ Schreiber, YC Tsai… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stress granules (SGs) are cytosolic biomolecular condensates that form in response to
cellular stress. Weak, multivalent interactions between their protein and RNA constituents …

ALS/FTD mutation-induced phase transition of FUS liquid droplets and reversible hydrogels into irreversible hydrogels impairs RNP granule function

T Murakami, S Qamar, JQ Lin, GSK Schierle, E Rees… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
The mechanisms by which mutations in FUS and other RNA binding proteins cause ALS
and FTD remain controversial. We propose a model in which low-complexity (LC) domains …

Stress granules, RNA-binding proteins and polyglutamine diseases: too much aggregation?

A Marcelo, R Koppenol, LP de Almeida, CA Matos… - Cell death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Stress granules (SGs) are membraneless cell compartments formed in response to different
stress stimuli, wherein translation factors, mRNAs, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and other …

The proof is in the process: self-reporting under international human rights treaties

CD Creamer, BA Simmons - American Journal of International Law, 2020 - cambridge.org
Recent research has shown that state reporting to human rights monitoring bodies is
associated with improvements in rights practices, calling into question earlier claims that self …

An aberrant phase transition of stress granules triggered by misfolded protein and prevented by chaperone function

D Mateju, TM Franzmann, A Patel, A Kopach… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Stress granules (SG) are membrane‐less compartments involved in regulating mRNAs
during stress. Aberrant forms of SGs have been implicated in age‐related diseases, such as …

RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in health and disease

AF Harrison, J Shorter - Biochemical Journal, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Approximately 70 human RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) contain a prion-like domain (PrLD).
PrLDs are low-complexity domains that possess a similar amino acid composition to prion …