Nature Communications (Nov 2022)
Phase separation modulates the assembly and dynamics of a polarity-related scaffold-signaling hub
- Wei Tan,
- Sihua Cheng,
- Yingying Li,
- Xiao-Yang Li,
- Ning Lu,
- Jingxian Sun,
- Guiyue Tang,
- Yujiao Yang,
- Kezhu Cai,
- Xuefei Li,
- Xijun Ou,
- Xiang Gao,
- Guo-Ping Zhao,
- W. Seth Childers,
- Wei Zhao
Affiliations
- Wei Tan
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Sihua Cheng
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yingying Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiao-Yang Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ning Lu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jingxian Sun
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guiyue Tang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yujiao Yang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Kezhu Cai
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xuefei Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xijun Ou
- Department of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Xiang Gao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guo-Ping Zhao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- W. Seth Childers
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
- Wei Zhao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35000-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
The polarization of distinct scaffold-signaling hubs at opposite cell poles constitutes the basis of asymmetric cell division. Here, the authors show that phase separation serves as a general mechanism to regulate the assembly and dynamics of a new-pole scaffold-signaling hub.