Translating Material Science into Biological Function

Robert M Vernon; Julie D Forman-Kay

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2019.06.021

Translating Material Science into Biological Function

Mol Cell. 2019 Jul 11;75(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.06.021.

Authors

Robert M Vernon¹, Julie D Forman-Kay²

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada.
² Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, ON M5S 1A8 Canada. Electronic address: forman@sickkids.ca.

PMID: 31299205
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.06.021

Abstract

In this issue of Molecular Cell, Simon et al. (2019) demonstrate that phase separation of an engineered intrinsically disordered protein can be used to control in vitro translation via the formation of artificial ribonucleoprotein granules.

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MeSH terms

Artificial Cells*
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins*
Materials Science
Organelles
Ribonucleoproteins

Substances

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Ribonucleoproteins