Assemblages: Functional units formed by cellular phase separation

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 579-588

  Toretsky, Jeffrey A ^a   Wright, Peter E ^b,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology ^*  (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASMIC STRUCTURES; HUMANS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PORE; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84906877425     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201404124     Document Type: Review

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