Cajal bodies: Evolutionarily conserved nuclear biomolecular condensates with properties unique to plants.

ABSTRACT: Proper orchestration of the thousands of biochemical processes that are essential to the life of every cell requires highly organized cellular compartmentalization of dedicated microenvironments. There are 2 ways to create this intracellular segregation to optimize cellular function. One way is to create specific organelles, enclosed spaces bounded by lipid membranes that regulate macromolecular flux in and out of the compartment. A second way is via membraneless biomolecular condensates that form due to to liquid-liquid phase separation. Although research on these membraneless condensates has historically been performed using animal and fungal systems, recent studies have explored basic principles governing the assembly, properties, and functions of membraneless compartments in plants. In

SUBMITTER: Taliansky ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473218 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature