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 …

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 …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: critical components of the wetware

P Kulkarni, S Bhattacharya, S Achuthan… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite the wealth of knowledge gained about intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) since
their discovery, there are several aspects that remain unexplored and, hence, poorly …

A central chaperone-like role for 14-3-3 proteins in human cells

D Segal, S Maier, GJ Mastromarco, WW Qian… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
3-3 proteins are highly conserved regulatory proteins that interact with hundreds of
structurally diverse clients and act as central hubs of signaling networks. However, how 14-3 …

Protein aggregation and disaggregation in cells and development

JS Fassler, S Skuodas, DL Weeks… - Journal of molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is a feature of numerous neurodegenerative diseases. However,
regulated, often reversible, formation of protein aggregates, also known as condensates …

[HTML][HTML] A prion epigenetic switch establishes an active chromatin state

ZH Harvey, AK Chakravarty, RA Futia, DF Jarosz - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Covalent modifications to histones are essential for development, establishing distinct and
functional chromatin domains from a common genetic sequence. Whereas repressed …

Age-dependent aggregation of ribosomal RNA-binding proteins links deterioration in chromatin stability with challenges to proteostasis

J Paxman, Z Zhou, R O'Laughlin, Y Liu, Y Li, W Tian… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Chromatin instability and protein homeostasis (proteostasis) stress are two well-established
hallmarks of aging, which have been considered largely independent of each other. Using …

Amyloid and amyloid-like aggregates: Diversity and the term crisis

AB Matiiv, NP Trubitsina, AG Matveenko… - Biochemistry …, 2020 - Springer
Active accumulation of the data on new amyloids continuing nowadays dissolves
boundaries of the term “amyloid”. Currently, it is most often used to designate aggregates …

From prions to stress granules: defining the compositional features of prion-like domains that promote different types of assemblies

A Fomicheva, ED Ross - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stress granules are ribonucleoprotein assemblies that form in response to cellular stress.
Many of the RNA-binding proteins found in stress granule proteomes contain prion-like …

Structures of pathological and functional amyloids and prions, a solid-state NMR perspective

A Daskalov, N El Mammeri, A Lends… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Infectious proteins or prions are a remarkable class of pathogens, where pathogenicity and
infectious state correspond to conformational transition of a protein fold. The conformational …