Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Condensates formed by prion-like low-complexity domains have small-world network structures and interfaces defined by expanded conformations

  • Mina Farag,
  • Samuel R. Cohen,
  • Wade M. Borcherds,
  • Anne Bremer,
  • Tanja Mittag,
  • Rohit V. Pappu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35370-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The authors provide a physical description for condensates as complex fluids defined by small-world network structures for their interiors, and of interfaces featuring a preference of locally and globally expanded conformations.