Solutes unmask differences in clustering versus phase separation of FET proteins

M Kar, LT Vogel, G Chauhan, S Felekyan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Phase separation and percolation contribute to phase transitions of multivalent
macromolecules. Contributions of percolation are evident through the viscoelasticity of …

Biomolecular phase separation through theoretical and computational microscope

R Kumar, DH Koo, YG Eom… - Bulletin of the Korean …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biomolecular phase separation is a vital mechanism for orchestrating biomolecules within
living cells. This crucial role has spurred an intense pursuit to comprehend the molecular …

Biomolecular Condensates Can Enhance Pathological RNA Clustering

TS Mahendran, GM Wadsworth, A Singh, PR Banerjee - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Intracellular aggregation of repeat expanded RNA has been implicated in many
neurological disorders. Here, we study the role of biomolecular condensates on irreversible …

Microscopic model for aging of biocondensates

HL Roy, PDL Rios - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21710, 2024 - arxiv.org
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless compartments in the cell that are involved in
a wide diversity of biological processes. These phase-separated droplets usually exhibit a …

Backbone-mediated weakening of pairwise interactions enables percolation in mimics of protein condensates

X Zeng, RV Pappu - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins with specific sequence grammars can be
drivers of phase separation and percolation that enable the formation of biomolecular …

Hierarchical structural organization in bioinspired peptide coacervate microdroplets

J Lim, S Gudlur, C Buchanan, QM Perrin, H Boyd… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
This study explores the dynamic and hierarchical structural organization of peptide
coacervate microdroplets at the meso-to atomic-scale resolution using a combination of …

Biomolecular condensates can enhance pathological RNA clustering

P Banerjee, TS Mahendran, G Wadsworth, A Singh - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Intracellular aggregation of repeat expanded RNA has been implicated in many
neurological disorders. Here, we study the role of biomolecular condensates on irreversible …