Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition

TCT Michaels, D Qian, A Šarić, M Vendruscolo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of amyloid fibrils is a general class of protein self-assembly behaviour, which
is associated with both functional biology and the development of a number of disorders …

Physical principles underlying the complex biology of intracellular phase transitions

JM Choi, AS Holehouse… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Many biomolecular condensates appear to form via spontaneous or driven processes that
have the hallmarks of intracellular phase transitions. This suggests that a common …

Hydrophobicity of arginine leads to reentrant liquid-liquid phase separation behaviors of arginine-rich proteins

Y Hong, S Najafi, T Casey, JE Shea, SI Han… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins rich in cationic amino acid groups can undergo Liquid-
Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) in the presence of charge-balancing anionic counterparts …

Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates: Recent developments and new frontiers

AM Rumyantsev, NE Jackson… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates represent a wide class of materials with applications
ranging from coatings and adhesives to pharmaceutical technologies. They also underpin …

TDP-43 α-helical structure tunes liquid–liquid phase separation and function

AE Conicella, GL Dignon, GH Zerze… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is involved in the formation of membraneless
organelles (MLOs) associated with RNA processing. The RNA-binding protein TDP-43 is …

LASSI: A lattice model for simulating phase transitions of multivalent proteins

JM Choi, F Dar, RV Pappu - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Many biomolecular condensates form via spontaneous phase transitions that are driven by
multivalent proteins. These molecules are biological instantiations of associative polymers …

Liquid–liquid phase separation by intrinsically disordered protein regions of viruses: Roles in viral life cycle and control of virus–host interactions

S Brocca, R Grandori, S Longhi, V Uversky - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are unable to adopt a unique 3D structure under
physiological conditions and thus exist as highly dynamic conformational ensembles. IDPs …

Comparative roles of charge, π, and hydrophobic interactions in sequence-dependent phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins

S Das, YH Lin, RM Vernon… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Endeavoring toward a transferable, predictive coarse-grained explicit-chain model for
biomolecular condensates underlain by liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins …

Identifying sequence perturbations to an intrinsically disordered protein that determine its phase-separation behavior

BS Schuster, GL Dignon, WS Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) commonly underlies the
formation of membraneless organelles, which compartmentalize molecules intracellularly in …