[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

Molecular mechanisms of TDP-43 misfolding and pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Prasad, V Bharathi, V Sivalingam… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a versatile RNA/DNA binding protein involved in
RNA-related metabolism. Hyper-phosphorylated and ubiquitinated TDP-43 deposits act as …

Molecular interactions underlying liquid− liquid phase separation of the FUS low-complexity domain

AC Murthy, GL Dignon, Y Kan, GH Zerze… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
The low-complexity domain of the RNA-binding protein FUS (FUS LC) mediates liquid−
liquid phase separation (LLPS), but the interactions between the repetitive SYGQ-rich …

The molecular language of membraneless organelles

E Gomes, J Shorter - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Eukaryotic cells organize their intracellular components into organelles that can be
membrane-bound or membraneless. A large number of membraneless organelles, including …

FUS and TDP-43 phases in health and disease

B Portz, BL Lee, J Shorter - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The distinct prion-like domains (PrLDs) of FUS and TDP-43, modulate phase transitions that
result in condensates with a range of material states. These assemblies are implicated in …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation of FUS is suppressed by its nuclear import receptor and arginine methylation

M Hofweber, S Hutten, B Bourgeois, E Spreitzer… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cytoplasmic FUS aggregates are a pathological hallmark in a subset of patients with
frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A key step that is …

Phosphorylation of the FUS low‐complexity domain disrupts phase separation, aggregation, and toxicity

Z Monahan, VH Ryan, AM Janke, KA Burke… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Neuronal inclusions of aggregated RNA‐binding protein fused in sarcoma (FUS) are
hallmarks of ALS and frontotemporal dementia subtypes. Intriguingly, FUS's nearly …

Cytoplasmic TDP-43 de-mixing independent of stress granules drives inhibition of nuclear import, loss of nuclear TDP-43, and cell death

F Gasset-Rosa, S Lu, H Yu, C Chen, Z Melamed, L Guo… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
While cytoplasmic aggregation of TDP-43 is a pathological hallmark of amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, how aggregates form and what drives its nuclear …

Nuclear-import receptors reverse aberrant phase transitions of RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains

L Guo, HJ Kim, H Wang, J Monaghan, F Freyermuth… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) with prion-like domains (PrLDs) phase transition to functional
liquids, which can mature into aberrant hydrogels composed of pathological fibrils that …

Poly (ADP-ribose) prevents pathological phase separation of TDP-43 by promoting liquid demixing and stress granule localization

L McGurk, E Gomes, L Guo, J Mojsilovic-Petrovic… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), cytoplasmic
aggregates of hyperphosphorylated TDP-43 accumulate and colocalize with some stress …