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 …

[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 …

Deciphering how naturally occurring sequence features impact the phase behaviours of disordered prion-like domains

A Bremer, M Farag, WM Borcherds, I Peran… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prion-like low-complexity domains (PLCDs) have distinctive sequence grammars that
determine their driving forces for phase separation. Here we uncover the physicochemical …

The integral role of RNA in stress granule formation and function

D Campos-Melo, ZCE Hawley… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Stress granules (SGs) are phase-separated, membraneless, cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein
(RNP) assemblies whose primary function is to promote cell survival by condensing …

Multiphase coalescence mediates Hippo pathway activation

L Wang, K Choi, T Su, B Li, X Wu, R Zhang, JH Driskill… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The function of biomolecular condensates is often restricted by condensate dissolution.
Whether condensates can be suppressed without condensate dissolution is unclear. Here …

Properties and biological impact of RNA G-quadruplexes: from order to turmoil and back

P Kharel, G Becker, V Tsvetkov… - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Guanine-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-canonical four-stranded structures that can
be formed in guanine (G) rich nucleic acid sequences. A great number of G-rich sequences …

LncRNAs in human cancers: signal from noise

S Adnane, A Marino, E Leucci - Trends in cell biology, 2022 - cell.com
Given the biochemical reaction stochasticity, the mechanisms leading to conservation of
biological functions from noise are obscure. Pervasive transcription of nonconserved …

Stress granule homeostasis is modulated by TRIM21-mediated ubiquitination of G3BP1 and autophagy-dependent elimination of stress granules

C Yang, Z Wang, Y Kang, Q Yi, T Wang, Y Bai, Y Liu - Autophagy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Eukaryotic stress granules (SGs) are highly dynamic assemblies of untranslated mRNAs
and proteins that form through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) under cellular stress …

Liquid–liquid phase separation as an organizing principle of intracellular space: Overview of the evolution of the cell compartmentalization concept

IA Antifeeva, AV Fonin, AS Fefilova… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
At the turn of the twenty-first century, fundamental changes took place in the understanding
of the structure and function of proteins and then in the appreciation of the intracellular …

Deconstructing virus condensation

N Lopez, G Camporeale, M Salgueiro… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Viruses have evolved precise mechanisms for using the cellular physiological pathways for
their perpetuation. These virus-driven biochemical events must be separated in space and …