Search Results - "Deniz, Ashok A"
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Reentrant Phase Transitions and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Membraneless Organelles
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (01-05-2018)“…Compartmentalization of biochemical components, interactions, and reactions is critical for the function of cells. While intracellular partitioning of…”
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Reentrant Phase Transition Drives Dynamic Substructure Formation in Ribonucleoprotein Droplets
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (11-09-2017)“…Intracellular ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules are membrane‐less droplet organelles that are thought to regulate posttranscriptional gene expression. While…”
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Modulation of allostery by protein intrinsic disorder
Published in Nature (London) (20-06-2013)“…Single-molecule FRET is used to examine how an intrinsically disordered protein, the adenovirus E1A oncoprotein, interacts with two different protein partners…”
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Self-interaction of NPM1 modulates multiple mechanisms of liquid–liquid phase separation
Published in Nature communications (26-02-2018)“…Nucleophosmin (NPM1) is an abundant, oligomeric protein in the granular component of the nucleolus with roles in ribosome biogenesis. Pentameric NPM1 undergoes…”
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Physical Chemistry of Cellular Liquid‐Phase Separation
Published in Chemistry : a European journal (17-04-2019)“…Compartmentalization of biochemical processes is essential for cell function. Although membrane‐bound organelles are well studied in this context, recent work…”
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Nucleophosmin integrates within the nucleolus via multi-modal interactions with proteins displaying R-rich linear motifs and rRNA
Published in eLife (02-02-2016)“…The nucleolus is a membrane-less organelle formed through liquid-liquid phase separation of its components from the surrounding nucleoplasm. Here, we show that…”
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Interplay of α-synuclein binding and conformational switching probed by single-molecule fluorescence
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-04-2009)“…We studied the coupled binding and folding of α-synuclein, an intrinsically disordered protein linked with Parkinson's disease. Using single-molecule…”
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FRET-based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices
Published in eLife (29-03-2021)“…Single-molecule FRET (smFRET) has become a mainstream technique for studying biomolecular structural dynamics. The rapid and wide adoption of smFRET…”
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Coupling of binding and differential subdomain folding of the intrinsically disordered transcription factor CREB
Published in FEBS letters (01-04-2023)“…The cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB) contains a basic leucine zipper motif (bZIP) that forms a coiled coil structure upon dimerization and…”
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Divalent cations can control a switch-like behavior in heterotypic and homotypic RNA coacervates
Published in Scientific reports (21-08-2019)“…Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of RNA-protein complexes plays a major role in the cellular function of membraneless organelles (MLOs). MLOs are…”
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Single-molecule biophysics: at the interface of biology, physics and chemistry
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (06-01-2008)“…Single-molecule methods have matured into powerful and popular tools to probe the complex behaviour of biological molecules, due to their unique abilities to…”
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Topological Considerations in Biomolecular Condensation
Published in Biomolecules (Basel, Switzerland) (11-01-2023)“…Biomolecular condensation and phase separation are increasingly understood to play crucial roles in cellular compartmentalization and spatiotemporal regulation…”
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Reentrant DNA shells tune polyphosphate condensate size
Published in Nature communications (26-10-2024)“…The inorganic biopolymer polyphosphate (polyP) occurs in all domains of life and affects myriad cellular processes. A longstanding observation is polyP’s…”
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natively unfolded yeast prion monomer adopts an ensemble of collapsed and rapidly fluctuating structures
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-02-2007)“…The yeast prion protein Sup35 is a translation termination factor, whose activity is modulated by sequestration into a self-perpetuating amyloid. The…”
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Spatial and functional arrangement of Ebola virus polymerase inside phase-separated viral factories
Published in Nature communications (13-07-2023)“…Ebola virus (EBOV) infection induces the formation of membrane-less, cytoplasmic compartments termed viral factories, in which multiple viral proteins gather…”
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Conserved features of intermediates in amyloid assembly determine their benign or toxic states
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-07-2012)“…Some amyloid-forming polypeptides are associated with devastating human diseases and others provide important biological functions. For both, oligomeric…”
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Counteracting chemical chaperone effects on the single-molecule α-synuclein structural landscape
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-10-2012)“…Protein structure and function depend on a close interplay between intrinsic folding energy landscapes and the chemistry of the protein environment. Osmolytes…”
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Protocol for preparing cyclic-phospholipid decanoate and glyceryl-didecanoate-phosphate-containing vesicles
Published in STAR protocols (20-09-2024)“…Cyclic-phospholipids-based vesicles can play a role in facilitating the chemical evolution of protocells from the structurally simple to the functionally more…”
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Forced Folding of a Disordered Protein Accesses an Alternative Folding Landscape
Published in Chemphyschem (12-01-2015)“…Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are involved in diverse cellular functions. Many IDPs can interact with multiple binding partners, resulting in their…”
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Percolation physics and density transition frameworks converge in biomolecular condensation
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