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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2023

Advanced imaging techniques for studying protein phase separation in living cells and at single-molecule level.

Gemechu Mekonnen, Nathalie Djaja, Xincheng Yuan, Sua Myong

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Client-scaffold interactions suppress aggregation of a client protein in model condensates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gemechu MekonnenProgram in Cellular Molecular Developmental Biology and Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Nathalie DjajaProgram in Cellular Molecular Developmental Biology and Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Xincheng YuanProgram in Cellular Molecular Developmental Biology and Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Sua MyongProgram in Cellular Molecular Developmental Biology and Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Electronic address: smyong1@jhu.edu.

Funding

Cellular and Molecular BiologyT32GM141804 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI John Kim · 2021 to 2026
$5.1M
Defining the Role of Poly ADP-ribose in Biomolecular Condensation in ALS and FTLDRF1AG071326 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LEUNG, ANTHONY K L, MYONG, SUA · 2020 to 2020
$2.6M
Molecular Assembly and Disassembly of RNA-Protein Complexes Implicated in ALS/FTDRF1NS113636 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MYONG, SUA · 2019 to 2019
$2.0M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG071326NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM141804NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS113636
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions are essential for cell function and survival. These interactions facilitate the formation of ribonucleoprotein complexes and biomolecular condensates via phase separation. Such assembly is involved in transcription, splicing, translation and stress response. When dysregulated, proteins and RNA can undergo irreversible aggregation which can be cytotoxic and pathogenic. Despite technical advances in investigating biomolecular condensates, achieving the necessary spatiotemporal resolution to deduce the parameters that govern their assembly and behavior has been challenging. Many laboratories have applied advanced microscopy methods for imaging condensates. For example, single molecule imaging methods have enabled the detection of RNA-protein interaction, protein-protein interaction, protein conformational dynamics, and diffusional motion of molecules that report on the intrinsic molecular interactions underlying liquid-liquid phase separation. This review will outline advances in both microscopy and spectroscopy techniques which allow single molecule detection and imaging, and how these techniques can be used to probe unique aspects of biomolecular condensates.

Indexed as

MicroscopyProtein ConformationAssembly dynamicsBiomolecular condensateFluidityLLPSNucleationSingle molecule approachesSpatiotemporal resolution

Identifiers

PMID37523989
PMCPMC10528199

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