Hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases

DM Wilson, MR Cookson, L Van Den Bosch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Decades of research have identified genetic factors and biochemical pathways involved in
neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). We present evidence for the following eight hallmarks …

Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

O-GlcNAcylation determines the translational regulation and phase separation of YTHDF proteins

Y Chen, R Wan, Z Zou, L Lao, G Shao, Y Zheng… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant internal mRNA nucleotide
modification in mammals, regulating critical aspects of cell physiology and differentiation …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of stress granule assembly and disassembly

S Hofmann, N Kedersha, P Anderson… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Stress granules (SGs) are membrane-less ribonucleoprotein (RNP)-based cellular
compartments that form in the cytoplasm of a cell upon exposure to various environmental …

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 …

Phase separation by low complexity domains promotes stress granule assembly and drives pathological fibrillization

A Molliex, J Temirov, J Lee, M Coughlin, AP Kanagaraj… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Stress granules are membrane-less organelles composed of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs)
and RNA. Functional impairment of stress granules has been implicated in amyotrophic …

RNA self-assembly contributes to stress granule formation and defining the stress granule transcriptome

B Van Treeck, DSW Protter… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Stress granules are higher order assemblies of nontranslating mRNAs and proteins that
form when translation initiation is inhibited. Stress granules are thought to form by protein …

A new phase of networking: the molecular composition and regulatory dynamics of mammalian stress granules

SR Millar, JQ Huang, KJ Schreiber, YC Tsai… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stress granules (SGs) are cytosolic biomolecular condensates that form in response to
cellular stress. Weak, multivalent interactions between their protein and RNA constituents …

Structural and hydrodynamic properties of an intrinsically disordered region of a germ cell-specific protein on phase separation

JP Brady, PJ Farber, A Sekhar, YH Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Membrane encapsulation is frequently used by the cell to sequester biomolecules and
compartmentalize their function. Cells also concentrate molecules into phase-separated …

The disordered P granule protein LAF-1 drives phase separation into droplets with tunable viscosity and dynamics

S Elbaum-Garfinkle, Y Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
P granules and other RNA/protein bodies are membrane-less organelles that may assemble
by intracellular phase separation, similar to the condensation of water vapor into droplets …