[HTML][HTML] Modulating biomolecular condensates: a novel approach to drug discovery

DM Mitrea, M Mittasch, BF Gomes, IA Klein… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
In the past decade, membraneless assemblies known as biomolecular condensates have
been reported to play key roles in many cellular functions by compartmentalizing specific …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid–liquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a novel principle for explaining the precise spatial
and temporal regulation in living cells. LLPS compartmentalizes proteins and nucleic acids …

The proteostasis network and its decline in ageing

MS Hipp, P Kasturi, FU Hartl - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Ageing is a major risk factor for the development of many diseases, prominently including
neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease. A hallmark …

[HTML][HTML] Intermolecular interactions underlie protein/peptide phase separation irrespective of sequence and structure at crowded milieu

M Poudyal, K Patel, L Gadhe, AS Sawner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as a crucial biological phenomenon
underlying the sequestration of macromolecules (such as proteins and nucleic acids) into …

The LC3-conjugation machinery specifies the loading of RNA-binding proteins into extracellular vesicles

AM Leidal, HH Huang, T Marsh, T Solvik, D Zhang… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Traditionally viewed as an autodigestive pathway, autophagy also facilitates cellular
secretion; however, the mechanisms underlying these processes remain unclear. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Protein condensation diseases: therapeutic opportunities

M Vendruscolo, M Fuxreiter - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Condensed states of proteins, including liquid-like membraneless organelles and solid-like
aggregates, contribute in fundamental ways to the organisation and function of the cell …

Amyloid-type protein aggregation and prion-like properties of amyloids

D Willbold, B Strodel, GF Schröder, W Hoyer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review will focus on the process of amyloid-type protein aggregation. Amyloid fibrils are
an important hallmark of protein misfolding diseases and therefore have been investigated …

Probing and engineering liquid-phase organelles

D Bracha, MT Walls, CP Brangwynne - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Cells compartmentalize their intracellular environment to orchestrate countless
simultaneous biochemical processes. Many intracellular tasks rely on membrane-less …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …