Biomolecular condensates mediate dynamic compartmentalization of cellular processes. The multivalent interactions that underlie biomolecular condensation are often promoted by intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) within proteins. Although the role...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Sep 19, 2025
Phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids into biomolecular condensates contributes to the regulation of cellular compartmentalization in membrane-less environments. A key parameter controlling the onset of biomolecular condensate formation is t...
BACKGROUND: Proteins self-organize in dynamic cellular environments by assembling into reversible biomolecular condensates through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). These condensates can comprise single or multiple proteins, with different roles...
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless organelles that can concentrate hundreds of different proteins in cells to operate essential biological functions. However, accurate identification of their components remains challenging and biased towards p...
Biomolecular condensates help cells organise their content in space and time. Cells harbour a variety of condensate types with diverse composition and many are likely yet to be discovered. Here, we develop a methodology to predict the composition of ...
Biomolecular condensates are proposed to cause diseases, such as cancer and neurodegeneration, by concentrating proteins at abnormal subcellular loci. Imaging-based compound screens have been used to identify small molecules that reverse or promote b...
Diverse mechanisms have been described for selective enrichment of biomolecules in membrane-bound organelles, but less is known about mechanisms by which molecules are selectively incorporated into biomolecular assemblies such as condensates that lac...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jun 10, 2022
Protein self-assembly is one of the formation mechanisms of biomolecular condensates. However, most phase-separating systems (PS) demand multiple partners in biological conditions. In this study, we divided PS proteins into two groups according to th...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Sep 1, 2025
Kinked- sheets are short peptide motifs that appear as distortions in strands and often mediate formation of reversible amyloid fibrils in prion-like proteins. Standard methods for assigning secondary structures cannot distinguish these esoteric mo...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 13, 2025
Phase separation is an important mechanism to generate certain biomolecular condensates and organize the cell interior. Condensate formation and function remain incompletely understood due to difficulties in visualizing the condensate interior at hig...
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