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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2023

Quantification of Surface Tension Effects and Nucleation-and-Growth Rates during Self-Assembly of Biological Condensates.

Zsuzsa Sárkány, Fernando Rocha, Anna Bratek-Skicki, Peter Tompa, Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro, Pedro M Martins

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Zsuzsa SárkányIBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, 4150-180, Portugal.
Fernando RochaLEPABE - Laboratory for Process Engineering Environment Biotechnology and Energy, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal.
Anna Bratek-SkickiJerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, Krakow, PL30239, Poland.
Peter TompaVIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnology, Brussels, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium.
Sandra Macedo-RibeiroIBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, 4150-180, Portugal.
Pedro M MartinsIBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, 4150-180, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6908-1828
Universidade do Porto · PTVrije Universiteit Brussel · BE

Funding

Biotechnology and Energy 2021/43/B/ST8/01900COMPETE 2020-Operational Programme for Competitiveness and InternationalizationEuropean Union's Horizon 952334FEDER-Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento RegionalInstitute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences UIDB/00511/2020Laboratory for Process Engineering, EnvironmentNational Science Center, PolandPortugal 2020 POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007274Portugal 2020 POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031323Portugal 2020 PTDC/MED-FAR/31323/2017Portugal 2020 PTDC/QUI-COL/2444/2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid-solid and liquid-liquid phase separation (PS) drives the formation of functional and disease-associated biological assemblies. Principles of phase equilibrium are here employed to derive a general kinetic solution that predicts the evolution of the mass and size of biological assemblies. Thermodynamically, protein PS is determined by two measurable concentration limits: the saturation concentration and the critical solubility. Due to surface tension effects, the critical solubility can be higher than the saturation concentration for small, curved nuclei. Kinetically, PS is characterized by the primary nucleation rate constant and a combined rate constant accounting for growth and secondary nucleation. It is demonstrated that the formation of a limited number of large condensates is possible without active mechanisms of size control and in the absence of coalescence phenomena. The exact analytical solution can be used to interrogate how the elementary steps of PS are affected by candidate drugs.

Indexed as

ProteinsSurface TensionProteinsbiological condensatesliquid-liquid phase separationnucleation-and-growthprotein aggregationsurface tension

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PMID37279376
PMCPMC10427409
OpenAlexW4379600557

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