A framework for understanding the functions of biomolecular condensates across scales

AS Lyon, WB Peeples, MK Rosen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are found throughout eukaryotic cells, including in the nucleus, in
the cytoplasm and on membranes. They are also implicated in a wide range of cellular …

Generic nature of the condensed states of proteins

M Fuxreiter, M Vendruscolo - Nature cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Proteins undergoing liquid–liquid phase separation are being discovered at an increasing
rate. Since at the high concentrations present in the cell most proteins would be expected to …

TRIM37 controls cancer-specific vulnerability to PLK4 inhibition

F Meitinger, M Ohta, KY Lee, S Watanabe, RL Davis… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Centrosomes catalyse the formation of microtubules needed to assemble the mitotic spindle
apparatus. Centrosomes themselves duplicate once per cell cycle, in a process that is …

Kinase regulation by liquid–liquid phase separation

TP López-Palacios, JL Andersen - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is emerging as a mechanism of spatiotemporal
regulation that could answer long-standing questions about how order is achieved in …

A subcellular map of the human kinome

H Zhang, X Cao, M Tang, G Zhong, Y Si, H Li, F Zhu… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The human kinome comprises 538 kinases playing essential functions by catalyzing protein
phosphorylation. Annotation of subcellular distribution of the kinome greatly facilitates …

EML4‐ALK biology and drug resistance in non‐small cell lung cancer: a new phase of discoveries

M Elshatlawy, J Sampson, K Clarke… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) can be driven to oncogenic activity by different types of
mutational events such as point‐mutations, for example F1174L in neuroblastoma, and …

Phase‐separated foci of EML4‐ALK facilitate signalling and depend upon an active kinase conformation

J Sampson, MW Richards, J Choi, AM Fry… - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Variants of the oncogenic EML4‐ALK fusion protein contain a similar region of ALK
encompassing the kinase domain, but different portions of EML4. Here, we show that EML4 …

Polo-like kinase 4's critical role in cancer development and strategies for Plk4-targeted therapy

X Zhang, C Wei, H Liang, L Han - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Polo-like kinases (Plks) are critical regulatory molecules during the cell cycle process. This
family has five members: Plk1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Plk4 has been identified as a master regulator …

Centrosomal organization of Cep152 provides flexibility in Plk4 and procentriole positioning

C Sullenberger, D Kong, P Avazpour… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - rupress.org
Centriole duplication is a high-fidelity process driven by Polo-like kinase 4 (Plk4) and a few
conserved initiators. Dissecting how Plk4 and its receptors organize within centrosomes is …

Centrosome amplification and aneuploidy driven by the HIV-1-induced Vpr•VprBP•Plk4 complex in CD4+ T cells

JE Park, TS Kim, Y Zeng, M Mikolaj, J Il Ahn… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
HIV-1 infection elevates the risk of developing various cancers, including T-cell lymphoma.
Whether HIV-1-encoded proteins directly contribute to oncogenesis remains unknown. We …