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The material properties of a bacterial-derived biomolecular condensate tune biological function in natural and synthetic systems

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  • Keren Lasker

    (Stanford University School of Medicine
    The Scripps Research Institute)

  • Steven Boeynaems

    (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  • Vinson Lam

    (University of California San Diego)

  • Daniel Scholl

    (The Scripps Research Institute)

  • Emma Stainton

    (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  • Adam Briner

    (The University of Queensland)

  • Maarten Jacquemyn

    (KU Leuven)

  • Dirk Daelemans

    (KU Leuven)

  • Ashok Deniz

    (The Scripps Research Institute)

  • Elizabeth Villa

    (University of California San Diego
    University of California San Diego)

  • Alex S. Holehouse

    (Washington University in St. Louis
    Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Aaron D. Gitler

    (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  • Lucy Shapiro

    (Stanford University School of Medicine)

Abstract

Intracellular phase separation is emerging as a universal principle for organizing biochemical reactions in time and space. It remains incompletely resolved how biological function is encoded in these assemblies and whether this depends on their material state. The conserved intrinsically disordered protein PopZ forms condensates at the poles of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, which in turn orchestrate cell-cycle regulating signaling cascades. Here we show that the material properties of these condensates are determined by a balance between attractive and repulsive forces mediated by a helical oligomerization domain and an expanded disordered region, respectively. A series of PopZ mutants disrupting this balance results in condensates that span the material properties spectrum, from liquid to solid. A narrow range of condensate material properties supports proper cell division, linking emergent properties to organismal fitness. We use these insights to repurpose PopZ as a modular platform for generating tunable synthetic condensates in human cells.

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  • Keren Lasker & Steven Boeynaems & Vinson Lam & Daniel Scholl & Emma Stainton & Adam Briner & Maarten Jacquemyn & Dirk Daelemans & Ashok Deniz & Elizabeth Villa & Alex S. Holehouse & Aaron D. Gitler & , 2022. "The material properties of a bacterial-derived biomolecular condensate tune biological function in natural and synthetic systems," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-15, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-33221-z
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33221-z
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