Membraneless organelles are liquid condensates, which form through liquid-liquid phase separation. Recent advances show that phase separation is essential for cellular homeostasis by regulating basic cellular processes, including transcription and si...
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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is one of the mechanisms mediating the compartmentalization of macromolecules (proteins and nucleic acids) in cells, forming biomolecular condensates or membraneless organelles. Consequently, the systematic ident...
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...