The Centrosome Is a Selective Condensate that Nucleates Microtubules by Concentrating Tubulin.

By Jeffrey B. Woodruff, Beatriz Ferreira Gomes, P. Widlund, J. Mahamid, A. Honigmann, Anthony A. Hyman. Cell, 2017

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Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Disease. (2019, methodology): “Examples of membraneless compartments are the nucleolus (50, 107) in the nucleus or centrosomes (155) in the cytoplasm of cells.”
Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease (2017, background): “Reaction-controlled assembly also appears to play a role in the centrosome, where cycles of reactivity associated with localized kinase activity drive centrosomal proteins to condense around a single centriole, preventing the formation of multiple centrosomes that could promote mitotic defects (121,”
A molecular grammar governing the driving forces for phase separation of prion-like RNA binding proteins (2018, unknown): “, 2016; Protter and Parker, 2016), or coiled-coil proteins (Woodruff et al., 2017).”
OpenCell: proteome-scale endogenous tagging enables the cartography of human cellular organization (2022, background): “…compartmentsforwhichbiomolecularconden-sationhasbeenproposedtoplayanimportant role(Fig.5G),namelyP-bodies( 64 ), stress granules ( 59 ), centrosome ( 65 ), cell junctions ( 66 ), and the interface between cell surface and actin cytoskeleton ( 67 ).”