Liquid–liquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a novel principle for explaining the precise spatial
and temporal regulation in living cells. LLPS compartmentalizes proteins and nucleic acids …

Biomolecular condensates: organizers of cellular biochemistry

SF Banani, HO Lee, AA Hyman… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are micron-scale compartments in eukaryotic cells that lack
surrounding membranes but function to concentrate proteins and nucleic acids. These …

Compositional control of phase-separated cellular bodies

SF Banani, AM Rice, WB Peeples, Y Lin, S Jain… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Cellular bodies such as P bodies and PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs) appear to be phase-
separated liquids organized by multivalent interactions among proteins and RNA molecules …

The STING phase-separator suppresses innate immune signalling

X Yu, L Zhang, J Shen, Y Zhai, Q Jiang, M Yi… - Nature Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates (biocondensates) formed via liquid–liquid phase-separation of
soluble proteins have been studied extensively. However, neither the phase-separation of …

Intrinsically disordered sequences enable modulation of protein phase separation through distributed tyrosine motifs

Y Lin, SL Currie, MK Rosen - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2017 - ASBMB
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is thought to contribute to the establishment of many
biomolecular condensates, eukaryotic cell structures that concentrate diverse …

Stress granules and processing bodies are dynamically linked sites of mRNP remodeling

N Kedersha, G Stoecklin, M Ayodele… - The Journal of cell …, 2005 - rupress.org
Stress granules (SGs) are cytoplasmic aggregates of stalled translational preinitiation
complexes that accumulate during stress. GW bodies/processing bodies (PBs) are distinct …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of MacroH2A-containing senescence-associated heterochromatin foci and senescence driven by ASF1a and HIRA

R Zhang, MV Poustovoitov, X Ye, HA Santos, W Chen… - Developmental cell, 2005 - cell.com
In senescent cells, specialized domains of transcriptionally silent senescence-associated
heterochromatic foci (SAHF), containing heterochromatin proteins such as HP1, are thought …

Droplet organelles?

EM Courchaine, A Lu, KM Neugebauer - The EMBO journal, 2016 - embopress.org
Cells contain numerous, molecularly distinct cellular compartments that are not enclosed by
lipid bilayers. These compartments are implicated in a wide range of cellular activities, and …

Altered distributions of Gemini of coiled bodies and mitochondria in motor neurons of TDP-43 transgenic mice

X Shan, PM Chiang, DL Price… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43), a DNA/RNA-binding protein involved in RNA
transcription and splicing, has been associated with the pathophysiology of …

Nucleolus: the fascinating nuclear body

V Sirri, S Urcuqui-Inchima, P Roussel… - Histochemistry and cell …, 2008 - Springer
Nucleoli are the prominent contrasted structures of the cell nucleus. In the nucleolus,
ribosomal RNAs are synthesized, processed and assembled with ribosomal proteins. RNA …