Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

A modular tool to query and inducibly disrupt biomolecular condensates

  • Carmen N. Hernández-Candia,
  • Sarah Pearce,
  • Chandra L. Tucker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22096-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Here, the authors present DisCo (Disassembly of Condensates), a method that allows the fast, inducible, and specific disruption of tagged condensates in mammalian cells. DisCo uses chemical dimerizers to induce the recruitment of a ligand into condensates leading to condensate disassembly.