Droplet organelles?

EMBO Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 1603-1612

  Courchaine, Edward M ^a   Lu, Alice ^a   Neugebauer, Karla M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid liquid phase separation; low complexity domain; nuclear bodies; RNP granules

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; DROPLET ORGANELLE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84980413864     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201593517     Document Type: Review

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