Polar Positioning of Phase-Separated Liquid Compartments in Cells Regulated by an mRNA Competition Mechanism

Cell

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1572-1584.e16

  Saha, Shambaditya ^a   Weber, Christoph A ^b   Nousch, Marco ^c   Adame Arana, Omar ^b   Hoege, Carsten ^a   Hein, Marco Y ^d   Osborne Nishimura, Erin ^e   Mahamid, Julia ^d   Jahnel, Marcus ^a   Jawerth, Louise ^a,b   Pozniakovski, Andrej ^a   Eckmann, Christian R ^c   Jülicher, Frank ^b   Hyman, Anthony A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MRNA BINDING PROTEIN MEX 5; P GRANULE PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN PGL 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MEX-5 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PGL-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL GRANULE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT CELL; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA BINDING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84986247611     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.006     Document Type: Article

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