Cellular functions of eukaryotic RNA helicases and their links to human diseases

KE Bohnsack, S Yi, S Venus, E Jankowsky… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
RNA helicases are highly conserved proteins that use nucleoside triphosphates to bind or
remodel RNA, RNA–protein complexes or both. RNA helicases are classified into the DEAD …

Roles of mRNA poly (A) tails in regulation of eukaryotic gene expression

LA Passmore, J Coller - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, poly (A) tails are present on almost every mRNA. Early experiments led to the
hypothesis that poly (A) tails and the cytoplasmic polyadenylate-binding protein (PABPC) …

Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing

S Alberti, AA Hyman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless intracellular assemblies that often form via
liquid− liquid phase separation and have the ability to concentrate biopolymers. Research …

RNA contributions to the form and function of biomolecular condensates

C Roden, AS Gladfelter - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensation partitions cellular contents and has important roles in stress
responses, maintaining homeostasis, development and disease. Many nuclear and …

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 …

DEAD-box ATPases are global regulators of phase-separated organelles

M Hondele, R Sachdev, S Heinrich, J Wang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The ability of proteins and nucleic acids to undergo liquid–liquid phase separation has
recently emerged as an important molecular principle of how cells rapidly and reversibly …

P-bodies: composition, properties, and functions

Y Luo, Z Na, SA Slavoff - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Processing bodies (P-bodies) are cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules primarily
composed of translationally repressed mRNAs and proteins related to mRNA decay …

Stress-triggered phase separation is an adaptive, evolutionarily tuned response

JA Riback, CD Katanski, JL Kear-Scott, EV Pilipenko… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
In eukaryotic cells, diverse stresses trigger coalescence of RNA-binding proteins into stress
granules. In vitro, stress-granule-associated proteins can demix to form liquids, hydrogels …

[HTML][HTML] Formation, function, and pathology of RNP granules

N Ripin, R Parker - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules are diverse membrane-less organelles that form through
multivalent RNA-RNA, RNA-protein, and protein-protein interactions between RNPs. RNP …

Emerging roles for intermolecular RNA-RNA interactions in RNP assemblies

B Van Treeck, R Parker - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Eukaryotic cells contain large assemblies of RNA and protein, referred to as
ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules, which include cytoplasmic P-bodies, stress granules, and …