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ArticleNature communications2025

Selective phase separation of transcription factors is driven by orthogonal molecular grammar.

Mark D Driver, Patrick R Onck

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Current Challenges of Transcription Compartmentalization Research.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. The Polymers of Life: Exploring Cellular Function Through Polymer Concepts.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mark D DriverZernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, 9746AG, Groningen, Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8329-888X
Patrick R OnckZernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, Groningen, 9746AG, Groningen, Netherlands. p.r.onck@rug.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5632-9727

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 847675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein production is critically dependent on gene transcription rates, which are regulated by RNA polymerase and a large collection of different transcription factors (TFs). How these transcription factors selectively address different genes is only partially known. Recent discoveries show that the differential condensation of separate TF families through phase separation may contribute to selectivity. Here we address this by conducting phase separation studies on six TFs from three different TF families with residue-scale coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Our exploration of ternary TF phase diagrams reveals four dominant sticker motifs and two orthogonal driving forces that dictate the resultant condensate morphology, pointing to sequence-dependent orthogonal molecular grammar as a generic molecular mechanism that drives selective transcriptional condensation in gene expression.

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Transcription FactorsMolecular Dynamics SimulationPhase SeparationTranscription, GeneticTranscription Factors

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PMID40164612
PMCPMC11958648

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