Mechanisms and Consequences of Macromolecular Phase Separation

Cell

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1067-1079

  Bergeron Sandoval, Louis Philippe ^a   Safaee, Nozhat ^a   Michnick, Stephen W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COLLOID; DEQUALINIUM; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL BODY; MACROMOLECULE; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COLLOIDS; CYTOPLASM; DEQUALINIUM; HUMANS; ORGANELLES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84975138897     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.026     Document Type: Review

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