Soft active aggregates: mechanics, dynamics and self-assembly of liquid-like intracellular protein bodies

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The disordered P granule protein LAF-1 drives phase separation into droplets with tunable viscosity and dynamics (2015, background): “The liquid-like properties of P granules could facilitate their function as intracellular RNA microreactors, concentrating and colocalizing specific molecules, which nonetheless remain mobile within the droplet (25, 38).”
Phase Transition of a Disordered Nuage Protein Generates Environmentally Responsive Membraneless Organelles (2015, background): “Ddx4 Organelles Are Phase-Separated Droplets Membraneless organelles such as the nucleolus, nuclear speckles, Cajal bodies, P bodies, and stress granules share many properties (Brangwynne, 2011; Phair and Misteli, 2000).”
Nonequilibrium physics in biology (2019, background): “Other compartments have been found to similarly form liquid-like droplets (Brangwynne, 2011).”