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ReviewFASEB bioAdvances2025

Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation: Mechanisms, Roles, and Implications in Cellular Function and Disease.

Dikesh Kumar Thakur, Sonal Padole, Tapati Sarkar, Somasundaram Arumugam, Shiladitya Chattopadhyay

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Review in FASEB bioAdvances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 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

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. TDP-43 Aggregation: The Healthy-Toxic Balance of the Prion-Like Domain.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Dikesh Kumar ThakurDepartment of Biopharmaceuticals National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Kolkata (NIPER Kolkata) Kolkata India.
Sonal PadoleDepartment of Biopharmaceuticals National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Kolkata (NIPER Kolkata) Kolkata India.
Tapati SarkarDepartment of Biological Sciences Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville Tennessee USA.
Somasundaram ArumugamDepartment of Biopharmaceuticals National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Kolkata (NIPER Kolkata) Kolkata India.
Shiladitya ChattopadhyayDepartment of Biopharmaceuticals National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Kolkata (NIPER Kolkata) Kolkata India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3026-8131

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid-liquid phase separation is a basic biophysical process that creates essential membraneless organelles that support different cellular activities, including chromatin organization and gene expression. The malfunction of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) plays a critical role in numerous diseases, such as neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), which involve TDP-43 and Tau, various cancers that utilize SPOP and YAP/TAZ proteins, and viral infections where pathogens use LLPS to replicate and avoid immune detection. This review brings together the fast-growing knowledge about LLPS across multiple scientific fields. The paper examines the physiological functions of LLPS along with its disease pathogenesis mechanisms and presents various experimental techniques (e.g., advanced microscopy, FRAP, FCS) for its investigation. It introduces new therapeutic approaches such as PTM modulation, small molecules like 1,6-hexanediol and Lipoamide, and advanced genetic tools including CRISPR and PROTACs like PSETAC, which also explores diagnostic applications. The thorough integration of knowledge presented here is essential to connect separate scientific findings while propelling research forward and turning LLPS discoveries into new biomedical developments.

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biomolecular condensatescancerliquid–liquid phase separationMembraneless organellesmethods to study LLPSneurodegenerative diseasesvirus

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PMID41268324
PMCPMC12628088

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