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Clusters of bacterial RNA polymerase are biomolecular condensates that assemble through liquid–liquid phase separation
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Significance: Bacterial cells are small and were long thought to have little to no internal structure. However, advances in microscopy have revealed that bacteria do indeed contain subcellular compartments. But how these compartments form has remained a mystery. Recent progress in larger, more complex eukaryotic cells has identified a novel mechanism for intracellular organization known as liquid–liquid phase separation. This process causes certain types of molecules to concentrate within distinct compartments inside the cell. Here, we demonstrate that the same process also occurs in bacteria. This work, together with a growing body of literature, suggests that liquid–liquid phase separation is a common mechanism for intracellular organization in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
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- Ladouceur, A.-M., Parmar, B. S., Biedzinski, S., Wall, J., Tope, S. G., Cohn, D., Kim, A., Soubry, N., Reyes-Lamothe, R., & Weber, S. C.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2020-07-16
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 31
- Pages
- 18540-18549
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W3043530209
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 109
- FWCI
- 16.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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