Small molecules for modulating protein driven liquid-liquid phase separation in treating neurodegenerative disease

RJ Wheeler, HO Lee, I Poser, A Pal, T Doeleman… - 2019 - europepmc.org
… implicated in disease, suggesting that modulation of phase transitions could be a possible
phase behaviour of stress granule proteins in the cytoplasm could be a novel route to treat

Small molecules as potent biphasic modulators of protein liquid-liquid phase separation

WM Babinchak, BK Dumm, S Venus, S Boyko… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
modulation of phase behavior by small molecules and demonstrate that this modulatory
capacity extends to a number of proteins… of cells treated with bis-ANS revealed that the molecule

[HTML][HTML] The role of liquid-liquid phase separation in the disease pathogenesis and drug development

Y Zhang, C Jin, X Xu, J Guo, L Wang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2024 - Elsevier
… provide new strategies for disease treatment. There are several … vivo by modulating membrane
LLPS with extracellular DNA … In this study, the release rate of small molecule drugs can be …

[HTML][HTML] Small molecules in regulating protein phase separation: Regulating protein phase separation by small molecules

S Li, Y Wang, L Lai - Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
modulate biological condensates are summarized and discussed. Possible strategies to
accelerate the discovery of more liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS)-regulating small … to treat

Cyclic dipeptide‐based small molecules modulate zinc‐mediated liquidliquid phase separation of tau

M Ramesh, C Balachandra, P Baruah… - Journal of Peptide …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… of SMMs on phase-separated droplets, tau–Zn LLPS was induced (10 min) and treated with
… The quantification of droplet size revealed the increased size in Zn treated samples to 2.26-…

Liquidliquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
… reduces hnRNPA2 phase separation and destabilizes the … of small ubiquitin-like modifiers
(SUMOs) that modulate cellular … protein being released and nuclear bodies being separated

Liquidliquid phase separation drives cellular function and dysfunction in cancer

S Mehta, J Zhang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
… field while also opening up new avenues for investigating disease pathology and treatment.
driven by intrinsically disordered histone tails. LLPS of chromatin can be modulated by post-…

[HTML][HTML] The Burgeoning Significance of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in the Pathogenesis and Therapeutics of Cancers

WX Xu, Q Qu, HH Zhuang, XQ Teng… - … Journal of Biological …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… a process known as liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) to … molecule drug treatment, RNA
interference, and DNA editing. … that small molecule drug treatment can effectively modulate

Liquidliquid phase separation in human health and diseases

B Wang, L Zhang, T Dai, Z Qin, H Lu, L Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
… We highlight important findings regarding the mechanisms underlying LLPS-modulated
receptors, could be selectively disrupted by the treatment of an anti-HIV drug elvitegravir (EVG). …

Role of liquidliquid phase separation in cancer: Mechanisms and therapeutic implications

X Li, Z Yu - Cancer Innovation, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… is expanding, cancer treatment based on phase separation is just … small molecules be
designed to precisely regulate phase … microbiota through phase separation modulation could offer …