RNA Controls PolyQ Protein Phase Transitions

Molecular Cell

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 220-230

  Zhang, Huaiying ^a,b   Elbaum Garfinkle, Shana ^b   Langdon, Erin M ^a   Taylor, Nicole ^b   Occhipinti, Patricia ^a   Bridges, Andrew A ^a   Brangwynne, Clifford P ^b   Gladfelter, Amy S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN WHI3; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLINE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EREMOTHECIUM; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; LIQUID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SEQUENCE; VISCOSITY; BUDDING YEAST; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW KINETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CYCLINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; ORGANELLES; PEPTIDES; PHASE TRANSITION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHEOLOGY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84944884155     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.09.017     Document Type: Article

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