Osmotic Stress Triggers Phase Separation

Sumit Majumder; Ankur Jain

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2020.09.001

Osmotic Stress Triggers Phase Separation

Mol Cell. 2020 Sep 17;79(6):876-877. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.09.001.

Authors

Sumit Majumder¹, Ankur Jain²

Affiliations

¹ Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: ajain@wi.mit.edu.

PMID: 32946761
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.09.001

Abstract

In this issue of Molecular Cell, Jalihal et al. (2020) show that cell volume changes upon osmotic stress result in rapid and reversible condensation of numerous multivalent proteins.

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MeSH terms

Cell Size
Osmotic Pressure
Proteins*

Substances

Proteins