Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry

F Sheehan, D Sementa, A Jain, M Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry seeks to mimic the ability of life forms to
use conserved sets of building blocks and chemical reactions to achieve a bewildering array …

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 …

[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 …

Biomolecular phase separation: from molecular driving forces to macroscopic properties

GL Dignon, RB Best, J Mittal - Annual review of physical …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Biological phase separation is known to be important for cellular organization, which has
recently been extended to a new class of biomolecules that form liquid-like droplets …

Biomolecular condensates and cancer

A Boija, IA Klein, RA Young - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant transformation is characterized by dysregulation of diverse cellular processes that
have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies, but only …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and their “mysterious”(meta) physics

VN Uversky - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recognition of the natural abundance and functional importance of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs), and protein hybrids that contain both intrinsically disordered protein regions …

Phase separation as a missing mechanism for interpretation of disease mutations

B Tsang, I Pritišanac, SW Scherer, AM Moses… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
It is unclear how disease mutations impact intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs),
which lack a stable folded structure. These mutations, while prevalent in disease, are …

Conformational dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins regulate biomolecular condensate chemistry

A Abyzov, M Blackledge, M Zweckstetter - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Motions in biomolecules are critical for biochemical reactions. In cells, many biochemical
reactions are executed inside of biomolecular condensates formed by ultradynamic …

Multiphase complex coacervate droplets

T Lu, E Spruijt - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation plays an important role in cellular organization. Many
subcellular condensed bodies are hierarchically organized into multiple coexisting domains …