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ArticleNature methods2025

Characterizing protein sequence determinants of nuclear condensates by high-throughput pooled imaging with CondenSeq.

Kalli Kappel, Daniel Strebinger, KeHuan K Edmonds, Samuel Chau-Duy-Tam Vo, Christopher M Vockley, Tridib Biswas, Samouil L Farhi, Rhiannon Macrae, Feng Zhang, Aviv Regev

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Article in Nature methods, 2025. 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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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Kalli KappelHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA. kappellab@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2129-199X
Daniel StrebingerHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8732-6414
KeHuan K EdmondsHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-2669
Samuel Chau-Duy-Tam VoHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6020-4716
Christopher M VockleyBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Tridib BiswasSpatial Technology Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3539-4751
Samouil L FarhiSpatial Technology Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1359-4568
Rhiannon MacraeHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7850-9056
Feng ZhangHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-7995
Aviv RegevBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. aviv.regev.sc@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-3158

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteHoward Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomolecular condensates organize numerous subcellular processes and have been implicated in diseases, including neurodegeneration and cancer. Protein sequences intrinsically encode their propensity to form condensates, but specific sequence features that regulate this behavior have not been systematically explored at scale. Here, we develop CondenSeq, a high-throughput pooled imaging with in situ sequencing approach to measure propensities of thousands of protein sequences to form nuclear condensates. Leveraging the large scale of these experiments, we evaluated the impacts of dozens of sequence features across a wide range of sequence contexts, identifying several features with highly consistent, context-independent effects and others with less-consistent effects. We also identified multiple classes of condensates and discovered distinct sequence properties that drive their formation. Our results provide a systematic overview of the relationships between protein sequences and nuclear condensate formation and establish a general approach for further dissecting these relationships at scale.

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Biomolecular CondensatesCell NucleusAmino Acid SequenceHumans

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PMCPMC12458759

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