ArticleNature cell biology2026
RNA-specific local translation is patterned by condensates for multinucleate cell growth.
Article in Nature cell biology, 2026. 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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- Progress toward linking single-molecule behavior and condensate material properties.Current opinion in structural biology · 2026Review
- RNA Promotes Synapsin Condensates That Organize Synaptic Vesicles in Live Neurons and Enable Localized Translation in Reconstituted System.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- A phase oscillator model of cell cycles reveals nuclear density control in a branched fungal network.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Excess p50 induces Arp1-dependent dynactin clusters containing the assembly factor VezA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Polymers of Life: Exploring Cellular Function Through Polymer Concepts.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- DEAD-box ATPase-marked condensates coordinate compartmentalized translation and antibiotic persistence.Science advances · 2026Article
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Abstract
Coordination between growth and nuclear division is a common cell feature. In some syncytia, nuclei divide asynchronously throughout the cell but growth occurs only at discrete locations, raising the question how the processes are locally regulated and globally coordinated. In the syncytial fungus Ashbya gossypii, both cell cycle progression and hyphal elongation require condensates formed by the protein Whi3 in complex with distinct mRNA species. Here we show that Whi3 condensates are enriched for translation regulators and are associated with local, spatially patterned translation of specific target RNAs near nuclei and growth sites. Whi3-RNA condensates can both promote and repress mRNA translation in an RNA- and condensate size-dependent manner in vitro. Condensate interfaces are sites of translation, tunable by condensate composition, RNA valency and protein charge state in vitro. Together, these data suggest that Whi3 condensates can generate a continuum of translation states that vary depending on the subcellular location and resident RNA sequences.
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