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Sequence Determinants of Intracellular Phase Separation by Complex Coacervation of a Disordered Protein.
Molecular cell - 7 Jul 2016
Pak Chi W, Kosno Martyna, Holehouse Alex S, Padrick Shae B, Mittal Anuradha, Ali Rustam, Yunus Ali A, Liu David R, Pappu Rohit V, Rosen Michael K
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Liquid-liquid phase separation, driven by collective interactions among multivalent and intrinsically disordered proteins, is thought to mediate the formation of membrane-less organelles in cells. Using parallel cellular and in vitro assays, we show that the Nephrin intracellular domain (NICD), a disordered protein, drives intracellular phase separation via complex coacervation, whereby the negatively charged...
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