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 …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid-liquid phase separation of TDP-43 and FUS in physiology and pathology of neurodegenerative diseases

JL Carey, L Guo - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Liquid-liquid phase separation of RNA-binding proteins mediates the formation of numerous
membraneless organelles with essential cellular function. However, aberrant phase …

[HTML][HTML] G3BP1 is a tunable switch that triggers phase separation to assemble stress granules

P Yang, C Mathieu, RM Kolaitis, P Zhang, J Messing… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The mechanisms underlying ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granule assembly, including the basis
for establishing and maintaining RNP granules with distinct composition, are unknown. One …

Ubiquitination of G3BP1 mediates stress granule disassembly in a context-specific manner

Y Gwon, BA Maxwell, RM Kolaitis, P Zhang, HJ Kim… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Stress granules are dynamic structures composed of RNA and protein that
arise in the cytoplasm in response to a variety of stressors. These structures form via liquid …

[HTML][HTML] The stress granule transcriptome reveals principles of mRNA accumulation in stress granules

A Khong, T Matheny, S Jain, SF Mitchell, JR Wheeler… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Stress granules are mRNA-protein assemblies formed from nontranslating mRNAs. Stress
granules are important in the stress response and may contribute to some degenerative …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation by low complexity domains promotes stress granule assembly and drives pathological fibrillization

A Molliex, J Temirov, J Lee, M Coughlin, AP Kanagaraj… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Stress granules are membrane-less organelles composed of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs)
and RNA. Functional impairment of stress granules has been implicated in amyotrophic …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation of C9orf72 dipeptide repeats perturbs stress granule dynamics

S Boeynaems, E Bogaert, D Kovacs, A Konijnenberg… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of RNA-binding proteins plays an important role in
the formation of multiple membrane-less organelles involved in RNA metabolism, including …

[HTML][HTML] Stress granule assembly disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport

K Zhang, JG Daigle, KM Cunningham, AN Coyne… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Defects in nucleocytoplasmic transport have been identified as a key pathogenic event in
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) mediated by a …

Ubiquitination is essential for recovery of cellular activities after heat shock

BA Maxwell, Y Gwon, A Mishra, J Peng, H Nakamura… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In response to many types of stress, eukaryotic cells initiate an adaptive
and reversible response that includes down-regulation of key cellular activities along with …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of RNA condensation by the DEAD-box protein eIF4A

D Tauber, G Tauber, A Khong, B Van Treeck, J Pelletier… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Stress granules are condensates of non-translating mRNAs and proteins involved in the
stress response and neurodegenerative diseases. Stress granules form in part through …