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 …

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 …

The liquid-to-solid transition of FUS is promoted by the condensate surface

Y Shen, A Chen, W Wang, Y Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
A wide range of macromolecules can undergo phase separation, forming biomolecular
condensates in living cells. These membraneless organelles are typically highly dynamic …

Liquid-droplet-mediated ATP-triggered amyloidogenic pathway of insulin-derived chimeric peptides: unraveling the microscopic and molecular processes

R Dec, MW Jaworek, W Dzwolak… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Disease-associated progression of protein dysfunction is typically determined by an
interplay of transition pathways leading to liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) and …

Distinct effects of familial Parkinson's disease-associated mutations on α-synuclein phase separation and amyloid aggregation

B Xu, F Fan, Y Liu, Y Liu, L Zhou, H Yu - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites are key pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease
(PD). Single-point mutations associated with familial PD cause α-synuclein (α-Syn) …

From a Droplet to a Fibril and from a Fibril to a Droplet: Intertwined Transition Pathways in Highly Dynamic Enzyme-Modulated Peptide-Adenosine Triphosphate …

R Dec, W Dzwolak, R Winter - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Many cellular coassemblies of proteins and polynucleotides facilitate liquid–liquid phase
separation (LLPS) and the subsequent self-assembly of disease-associated amyloid fibrils …

Time-dependent material properties of aging biomolecular condensates from different viscoelasticity measurements in molecular dynamics simulations

AR Tejedor, R Collepardo-Guevara… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates are important contributors to the internal organization of the cell
material. While initially described as liquid-like droplets, the term biomolecular condensates …

[PDF][PDF] 耗散粒子动力学方法在生物学领域的应用与研究进展: 从蛋白质结构到细胞力学

唐梓涵, 李学进, 李德昌 - 科学通报, 2023 - researchgate.net
摘要耗散粒子动力学(dissipative particle dynamics, DPD) 是近年发展起来的一种介观尺度的
数值模拟方法, 是研究软物质和复杂流体动力学行为的一种重要手段. 这种新型介观模拟方法 …

Modulation of α-synuclein aggregation amid diverse environmental perturbation

A Wasim, S Menon, J Mondal - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Intrinsically disordered protein α-synuclein (αS) is implicated in Parkinson's disease due to
its aberrant aggregation propensity. In a bid to identify the traits of its aggregation, here we …

Orchestrating vesicular and nonvesicular membrane dynamics by intrinsically disordered proteins

SJ Sigrist, V Haucke - EMBO reports, 2023 - embopress.org
Compartmentalization by membranes is a common feature of eukaryotic cells and serves to
spatiotemporally confine biochemical reactions to control physiology. Membrane‐bound …