A guide to membraneless organelles and their various roles in gene regulation

T Hirose, K Ninomiya, S Nakagawa… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Membraneless organelles (MLOs) are detected in cells as dots of mesoscopic size. By
undergoing phase separation into a liquid-like or gel-like phase, MLOs contribute to …

Mammalian stress granules and P bodies at a glance

CL Riggs, N Kedersha, P Ivanov… - Journal of cell …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Stress granules (SGs) and processing bodies (PBs) are membraneless ribonucleoprotein-
based cellular compartments that assemble in response to stress. SGs and PBs form …

[PDF][PDF] 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 …

[PDF][PDF] Competing protein-RNA interaction networks control multiphase intracellular organization

DW Sanders, N Kedersha, DSW Lee, AR Strom… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) mediates formation of membraneless condensates
such as those associated with RNA processing, but the rules that dictate their assembly …

[HTML][HTML] The role of TDP-43 mislocalization in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

TR Suk, MWC Rousseaux - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2020 - Springer
Since its discovery as a primary component in cytoplasmic aggregates in post-mortem tissue
of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), TAR DNA Binding Protein 43 kDa (TDP …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of stress granule assembly and disassembly

S Hofmann, N Kedersha, P Anderson… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Stress granules (SGs) are membrane-less ribonucleoprotein (RNP)-based cellular
compartments that form in the cytoplasm of a cell upon exposure to various environmental …

RNA editing with CRISPR-Cas13

DBT Cox, JS Gootenberg, OO Abudayyeh, B Franklin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Nucleic acid editing holds promise for treating genetic disease, particularly at the RNA level,
where disease-relevant sequences can be rescued to yield functional protein products. Type …

RNA targeting with CRISPR–Cas13

OO Abudayyeh, JS Gootenberg, P Essletzbichler… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
RNA has important and diverse roles in biology, but molecular tools to manipulate and
measure it are limited. For example, RNA interference,, can efficiently knockdown RNAs, but …

Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease

Y Shin, CP Brangwynne - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Living cells contain distinct subcompartments to facilitate spatiotemporal
regulation of biological reactions. In addition to canonical membrane-bound organelles such …

Principles and properties of stress granules

DSW Protter, R Parker - Trends in cell biology, 2016 - cell.com
Stress granules are assemblies of untranslating messenger ribonucleoproteins (mRNPs)
that form from mRNAs stalled in translation initiation. Stress granules form through …