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 …

The nucleolus as a multiphase liquid condensate

DLJ Lafontaine, JA Riback, R Bascetin… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
The nucleolus is the most prominent nuclear body and serves a fundamentally important
biological role as a site of ribonucleoprotein particle assembly, primarily dedicated to …

Competing protein-RNA interaction networks control multiphase intracellular organization

DW Sanders, N Kedersha, DSW Lee, AR Strom… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) mediates formation of membraneless condensates
such as those associated with RNA processing, but the rules that dictate their assembly …

Physical principles underlying the complex biology of intracellular phase transitions

JM Choi, AS Holehouse… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Many biomolecular condensates appear to form via spontaneous or driven processes that
have the hallmarks of intracellular phase transitions. This suggests that a common …

On the role of phase separation in the biogenesis of membraneless compartments

A Musacchio - The EMBO journal, 2022 - embopress.org
Molecular mechanistic biology has ushered us into the world of life's building blocks,
revealing their interactions in macromolecular complexes and inspiring strategies for …

Composition-dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation

JA Riback, L Zhu, MC Ferrolino, M Tolbert, DM Mitrea… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Intracellular bodies such as nucleoli, Cajal bodies and various signalling assemblies
represent membraneless organelles, or condensates, that form via liquid–liquid phase …

Biomolecular condensates in the nucleus

BR Sabari, A Dall'Agnese, RA Young - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Nuclear processes such as DNA replication, transcription, and RNA processing each
depend on the concerted action of many different protein and RNA molecules. How …

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 …

Nucleation landscape of biomolecular condensates

SF Shimobayashi, P Ronceray, DW Sanders… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
All structures within living cells must form at the right time and place. This includes
condensates such as the nucleolus, Cajal bodies and stress granules, which form via liquid …

Biomolecular phase separation: from molecular driving forces to macroscopic properties

GL Dignon, RB Best, J Mittal - Annual review of physical …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Biological phase separation is known to be important for cellular organization, which has
recently been extended to a new class of biomolecules that form liquid-like droplets …