Liquid–liquid phase separation in human health and diseases

B Wang, L Zhang, T Dai, Z Qin, H Lu, L Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging evidence suggests that liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) represents a vital
and ubiquitous phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles in …

Probing and engineering liquid-phase organelles

D Bracha, MT Walls, CP Brangwynne - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Cells compartmentalize their intracellular environment to orchestrate countless
simultaneous biochemical processes. Many intracellular tasks rely on membrane-less …

In situ architecture of the ciliary base reveals the stepwise assembly of intraflagellar transport trains

H Van den Hoek, N Klena, MA Jordan, G Alvarez Viar… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The cilium is an antenna-like organelle that performs numerous cellular functions, including
motility, sensing, and signaling. The base of the cilium contains a selective barrier that …

Automated tilt series alignment and tomographic reconstruction in IMOD

DN Mastronarde, SR Held - Journal of structural biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Automated tomographic reconstruction is now possible in the IMOD software package,
including the merging of tomograms taken around two orthogonal axes. Several …

mTORC1 controls phase separation and the biophysical properties of the cytoplasm by tuning crowding

M Delarue, GP Brittingham, S Pfeffer, IV Surovtsev… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Macromolecular crowding has a profound impact on reaction rates and the physical
properties of the cell interior, but the mechanisms that regulate crowding are poorly …

TomoTwin: generalized 3D localization of macromolecules in cryo-electron tomograms with structural data mining

G Rice, T Wagner, M Stabrin, O Sitsel, D Prumbaum… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryogenic-electron tomography enables the visualization of cellular environments in
extreme detail, however, tools to analyze the full amount of information contained within …

The eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle is liquid-like and exhibits dynamic reorganization

ESF Rosenzweig, B Xu, LK Cuellar… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Approximately 30%–40% of global CO 2 fixation occurs inside a non-membrane-
bound organelle called the pyrenoid, which is found within the chloroplasts of most …

NMR-based methods for protein analysis

Y Hu, K Cheng, L He, X Zhang, B Jiang… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a well-established method for
analyzing protein structure, interaction, and dynamics at atomic resolution and in various …

Cryo-electron microscopy methodology: current aspects and future directions

R Danev, H Yanagisawa, M Kikkawa - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a powerful structure determination
technique. Its most prolific branch is single particle analysis (SPA), a method being used in a …

Stimulated emission depletion microscopy

H Blom, J Widengren - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Despite its short history, diffraction-unlimited fluorescence microscopy techniques have
already made a substantial imprint in the biological sciences. In this review, we describe …