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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024

Enzyme-Responsive DNA Condensates.

Juliette Bucci, Layla Malouf, Diana A Tanase, Nada Farag, Jacob R Lamb, Roger Rubio-Sánchez, Serena Gentile, Erica Del Grosso, Clemens F Kaminski, Lorenzo Di Michele and 1 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Internal Phase Separation in Synthetic DNA Condensates.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Juliette BucciDepartment of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome 00133, Italy.
Layla MaloufDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0009-0008-5358-3306
Diana A TanaseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
Nada FaragDepartment of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome 00133, Italy.
Jacob R LambDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.
Roger Rubio-SánchezDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-5574-5809
Serena GentileDepartment of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome 00133, Italy.
Erica Del GrossoDepartment of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome 00133, Italy.
Clemens F KaminskiDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-5194-0962
Lorenzo Di MicheleDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-1458-9747
Francesco RicciDepartment of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome 00133, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4941-8646

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane-less compartments and organelles are widely acknowledged for their role in regulating cellular processes, and there is an urgent need to harness their full potential as both structural and functional elements of synthetic cells. Despite rapid progress, synthetically recapitulating the nonequilibrium, spatially distributed responses of natural membrane-less organelles remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate that the activity of nucleic-acid cleaving enzymes can be localized within DNA-based membrane-less compartments by sequestering the respective DNA or RNA substrates. Reaction-diffusion processes lead to complex nonequilibrium patterns, dependent on enzyme concentration. By arresting similar dynamic patterns, we spatially organize different substrates in concentric subcompartments, which can be then selectively addressed by different enzymes, demonstrating spatial distribution of enzymatic activity. Besides expanding our ability to engineer advanced biomimetic functions in synthetic membrane-less organelles, our results may facilitate the deployment of DNA-based condensates as microbioreactors or platforms for the detection and quantitation of enzymes and nucleic acids.

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DNABiomolecular CondensatesRNADNARNA

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PMID39503320
PMCPMC11583213

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