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ArticleMolecular cell2025

Transcriptome-wide mRNP condensation precedes stress granule formation and excludes new mRNAs.

Hendrik Glauninger, Jared A M Bard, Caitlin J Wong Hickernell, Karen M Velez, Edo M Airoldi, Weihan Li, Robert H Singer, Sneha Paul, Jingyi Fei, Tobin R Sosnick and 2 more

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Article in Molecular cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed.

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12 authors.

Hendrik GlauningerGraduate Program in Biophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jared A M BardDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Caitlin J Wong HickernellDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Karen M VelezDepartment of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Edo M AiroldiFox School of Business and Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Weihan LiDepartment of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY, USA.
Robert H SingerDepartment of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY, USA; Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY, USA.
Sneha PaulDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jingyi FeiDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Tobin R SosnickDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Edward W J WallaceSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Electronic address: edward.wallace@ed.ac.uk.
D Allan DrummondDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: dadrummond@uchicago.edu.

Funding

Kinetic studies of protein foldingR01GM055694 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI SOSNICK, TOBIN R · 2001 to 2022
$7.6M
Function and Regulation of Stress-Induced Adaptive CondensatesR35GM144278 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI David Allan Drummond · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Following mRNA from birth to death at single-molecule resolutionR35GM136296 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SINGER, ROBERT H · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
Studies of the function of membrane and soluble proteins and their biophysical properties.R35GM148233 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Tobin R Sosnick · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
Spatial coordination of cytosolic and mitochondrial translationR00GM148788 · NIGMS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI Weihan Li · 2025 to 2026
$498k
Understanding mRNA Condensation and Its Role in Translational Control during StressF30ES032665 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI GLAUNINGER, HENDRIK · 2021 to 2025
$264k
Spatial coordination of cytosolic and mitochondrial translationK99GM148788 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI LI, WEIHAN · 2023 to 2024
$250k
Investigating the adaptive role of heat-induced biomolecular condensates in translational regulationF31ES033554 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI WONG, CAITLIN · 2021 to 2023
$140k
NIEHS NIH HHS F30 ES032665NIEHS NIH HHS F31 ES033554NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM148788NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM148788NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM055694NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136296NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM144278NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM148233Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress-induced messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) condensation is conserved across eukaryotes, resulting in stress granule formation under intense stresses, yet the mRNA composition and function of these condensates remain unclear. Exposure of ribosome-free mRNA following stress is thought to cause condensation and stress granule formation through mRNA-sequence-dependent interactions, leading to disproportionate condensation of long mRNAs. Here, we show that, by contrast, virtually all mRNAs condense in response to multiple stresses in budding yeast with minor length dependence and often without stress granule formation. New transcripts escape mRNP condensation, enabling their selective translation. Inhibiting translation initiation causes formation of mRNP condensates distinct from stress granules and processing bodies (P bodies), and these translation-initiation-inhibited condensates (TIICs) are omnipresent, even in unstressed cells. Stress-induced mRNAs are excluded from TIICs due to the timing of their expression, indicating determinants of escape that are independent of sequence. Together, our results reveal a previously undetected level of translation-linked molecular organization and stress-responsive regulation.

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Cytoplasmic GranulesRibonucleoproteinsRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsStress GranulesTranscriptomeGene Expression Regulation, FungalPeptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalProcessing BodiesProtein BiosynthesisStress, Physiologicalmessenger ribonucleoproteinRibonucleoproteinsRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinsbiomolecular condensationcondensatesmRNP granulesstress granulesstress responseTIICstranslational regulationtranslation initiation

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