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eLife
A virus-encoded protein suppresses methylation of the viral genome through its interaction with AGO4 in the Cajal body
Molecular cell
A Prion-based Thermosensor in Plants
Jill Bouchard
Contributing editor, Condensates.com
Here's a commentary about a Nature article from earlier this year on the phase separation of a thermosensor in plants.
Nucleic acids research
PML nuclear bodies and chromatin dynamics: catch me if you can!
Nucleic acids research
Structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genome and predictions of the human interactome
Biophysical journal
Coupled Membrane Lipid Miscibility and Phosphotyrosine-Driven Protein Condensation Phase Transitions
Jill Bouchard
Contributing editor, Condensates.com
Cool--protein droplets on membranes cause lipids to phase separate too!
iScience
Fasnall Induces Atypically Transient Stress Granules Independently of FASN Inhibition
Biochemistry Biokhimiia
Amyloid and Amyloid-Like Aggregates: Diversity and the Term Crisis
Jill Bouchard
Contributing editor, Condensates.com
Do you have a protein that may or may not form aggregates in membraneless organelles? This paper might serve as a nice resource to compare all known instances of potential amyloid formation.
Development (Cambridge, England)
PLP-1 is essential for germ cell development and germline gene silencing in C
Jill Bouchard
Contributing editor, Condensates.com
Are you interested in signalling pathways that affect germ granules? Well this protein, and potentially its orthologs, controls germline gene silencing.
Experimental & molecular medicine
The role of TDP-43 propagation in neurodegenerative diseases: integrating insights from clinical and experimental studies
Jill Bouchard
Contributing editor, Condensates.com
This review briefly mentions how phase separation plays a role in TDP-43's prion-like propagation.
Cell reports
Phase-Separated Transcriptional Condensates Accelerate Target-Search Process Revealed by Live-Cell Single-Molecule Imaging
Nature communications
Active coacervate droplets as a model for membraneless organelles and protocells
Molecular plant
Unraveling the 3D Genome Architecture in Plants: Present and Future
Jill Bouchard
Contributing editor, Condensates.com
It's not surprising to me that this review discusses phase separation as part of the current knowledge about chromatin organization in plants. Check it out to find out more.
Nature communications
ATP hydrolysis by yeast Hsp104 determines protein aggregate dissolution and size in vivo
Jill Bouchard
Contributing editor, Condensates.com
Interesting, it looks like both stress granules and Q-bodies play a role in sequestering misfolded proteins during starvation.
Journal of molecular biology
Hofmeister Ions Modulate the Autocatalytic Amyloidogenesis of an Intrinsically Disordered Functional Amyloid Domain via Unusual Biphasic Kinetics
Current opinion in structural biology
How do intrinsically disordered protein regions encode a driving force for liquid-liquid phase separation?
Nov
03
MPI: Collective processes in non-equilibrium systems (winter term 2020/21)
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Nov
03
Johns Hopkins Chemistry Seminars–Fibrillization and Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of the Tau Peptide
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Nov
09
Online-Meeting: EXPLORING THE DRUGGABILITY of SARS-CoV-2
Monday, November 9, 2020
Nov
11
VIRTUAL: RNA at the Bench and Bedside II
Wednesday, November 11, 2020