Functional equivalence of germ plasm organizers

Beyond the Transport Function of Import Receptors: What’s All the FUS about?

(2018) Sofya Mikhaleva et al.   CELL

rbpms2 functions in Balbiani body architecture and ovary fate

(2018) Odelya H. Kaufman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Tdrd6a Regulates the Aggregation of Buc into Functional Subcellular Compartments that Drive Germ Cell Specification

(2018) Elke F. Roovers et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The LOTUS domain is a conserved DEAD-box RNA helicase regulator essential for the recruitment of Vasa to the germ plasm and nuage

(2017) Mandy Jeske et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The wisdom of crowds: regulating cell function through condensed states of living matter

(2017) Simon Alberti   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Microtubule-actin crosslinking factor 1 (Macf1) domain function in Balbiani body dissociation and nuclear positioning

(2017) Matias Escobar-Aguirre et al.   PLoS Genetics

Emergence and evolution of an interaction between intrinsically disordered proteins

(2017) Greta Hultqvist et al.   eLife

The contribution of intrinsically disordered regions to protein function, cellular complexity, and human disease

(2016) M. Madan Babu   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Multiplicity of Buc copies in Atlantic salmon contrasts with loss of the germ cell determinant in primates, rodents and axolotl

(2016) Adrijana Škugor et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Amyloid-like Self-Assembly of a Cellular Compartment

(2016) Elvan Boke et al.   CELL

Polar Positioning of Phase-Separated Liquid Compartments in Cells Regulated by an mRNA Competition Mechanism

(2016) Shambaditya Saha et al.   CELL

The new (dis)order in RNA regulation

(2016) Aino I. Järvelin et al.   Cell Communication and Signaling

Open questions in the study of de novo genes: what, how and why

(2016) Aoife McLysaght et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

A Concentration-Dependent Liquid Phase Separation Can Cause Toxicity upon Increased Protein Expression

(2016) Benedetta Bolognesi et al.   Cell Reports

Spatial patterning of P granules by RNA-induced phase separation of the intrinsically-disordered protein MEG-3

(2016) Jarrett Smith et al.   eLife

The evolution of insect germline specification strategies

(2016) Honghu Quan et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Kinesin-1 interacts with Bucky ball to form germ cells and is required to pattern the zebrafish body axis

(2015) P. D. Campbell et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A functional Bucky ball-GFP transgene visualizes germ plasm in living zebrafish

(2015) Stephan Riemer et al.   GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS

RNA Controls PolyQ Protein Phase Transitions

(2015) Huaiying Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Phase Transition of a Disordered Nuage Protein Generates Environmentally Responsive Membraneless Organelles

(2015) Timothy J. Nott et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Specifying and protecting germ cell fate

(2015) Susan Strome et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Structure ofDrosophilaOskar reveals a novel RNA binding protein

(2015) Na Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Crystal Structure of the Drosophila Germline Inducer Oskar Identifies Two Domains with Distinct Vasa Helicase- and RNA-Binding Activities

(2015) Mandy Jeske et al.   Cell Reports

Respective Functions of Two Distinct Siwi Complexes Assembled during PIWI-Interacting RNA Biogenesis in Bombyx Germ Cells

(2015) Kazumichi M. Nishida et al.   Cell Reports

Promiscuous interactions and protein disaggregases determine the material state of stress-inducible RNP granules

(2015) Sonja Kroschwald et al.   eLife

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions

(2014) Christopher J. Oldfield et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Biology

(2014) Anthony A. Hyman et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

RNA Clamping by Vasa Assembles a piRNA Amplifier Complex on Transposon Transcripts

(2014) Jordi Xiol et al.   CELL

Next generation mothers: Maternal control of germline development in zebrafish

(2014) Roland Dosch   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Oocyte polarity requires a Bucky ball-dependent feedback amplification loop

(2014) A. E. Heim et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Assemblages: Functional units formed by cellular phase separation

(2014) Jeffrey A. Toretsky et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Zebrafish vasa is required for germ-cell differentiation and maintenance

(2014) Odelya Hartung et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary relationship of two ancient protein superfolds

(2014) José Arcadio Farías-Rico et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

The DEAD-box helicase Vasa: Evidence for a multiplicity of functions in RNA processes and developmental biology

(2013) Paul Lasko   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Localisation of RNAs into the Germ Plasm of Vitellogenic Xenopus Oocytes

(2013) Sarbjit Nijjar et al.   PLoS One

Protein Interactions in Xenopus Germ Plasm RNP Particles

(2013) Sarbjit Nijjar et al.   PLoS One

From Sequence and Forces to Structure, Function, and Evolution of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

(2013) Julie D. Forman-Kay et al.   STRUCTURE

Cell-free Formation of RNA Granules: Low Complexity Sequence Domains Form Dynamic Fibers within Hydrogels

(2012) Masato Kato et al.   CELL

Cell-free Formation of RNA Granules: Bound RNAs Identify Features and Components of Cellular Assemblies

(2012) Tina W. Han et al.   CELL

Computational and informatics strategies for identification of specific protein interaction partners in affinity purification mass spectrometry experiments

(2012) Alexey I. Nesvizhskii   PROTEOMICS

Intrinsically disordered proteins: a 10-year recap

(2012) Peter Tompa   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Efficient mutation identification in zebrafish by microarray capturing and next generation sequencing

(2011) Franck Bontems et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Evolution and disorder

(2011) Celeste J Brown et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The DEAD-box RNA helicase Vasa functions in embryonic mitotic progression in the sea urchin

(2011) M. Yajima et al.   DEVELOPMENT

P granules extend the nuclear pore complex environment in theC. elegansgerm line

(2011) Dustin L. Updike et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

PGL proteins self associate and bind RNPs to mediate germ granule assembly inC. elegans

(2011) Momoyo Hanazawa et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Attributes of short linear motifs

(2011) Norman E. Davey et al.   Molecular BioSystems

RNA Granules in Germ Cells

(2011) E. Voronina et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

PONDR-FIT: A meta-predictor of intrinsically disordered amino acids

(2010) Bin Xue et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

Vasa genes: Emerging roles in the germ line and in multipotent cells

(2010) Eric A. Gustafson et al.   BIOESSAYS

LOTUS, a new domain associated with small RNA pathways in the germline

(2010) Isabelle Callebaut et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

OST-HTH: a novel predicted RNA-binding domain

(2010) Vivek Anantharaman et al.   Biology Direct

A conserved germline multipotency program

(2010) C. E. Juliano et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Targeting and Anchoring Tudor in the Pole Plasm of the Drosophila Oocyte

(2010) Joël Anne   PLoS One

Building RNA–protein granules: insight from the germline

(2010) Alexey L. Arkov et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Microtubule Actin Crosslinking Factor 1 Regulates the Balbiani Body and Animal-Vegetal Polarity of the Zebrafish Oocyte

(2010) Tripti Gupta et al.   PLoS Genetics

Bucky Ball Organizes Germ Plasm Assembly in Zebrafish

(2009) Franck Bontems et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ectopic expression of Cvh (Chicken Vasa homologue) mediates the reprogramming of chicken embryonic stem cells to a germ cell fate

(2009) Fabrice Lavial et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The molecular machinery of germ line specification

(2009) Ben Ewen-Campen et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Germline P Granules Are Liquid Droplets That Localize by Controlled Dissolution/Condensation

(2009) C. P. Brangwynne et al.   SCIENCE

Visualisation and Quantification of Morphogen Gradient Formation in the Zebrafish

(2009) Steven A Harvey et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The actin-binding protein Lasp promotes Oskar accumulation at the posterior pole of the Drosophila embryo

(2008) R. Suyama et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Bucky ball functions in Balbiani body assembly and animal–vegetal polarity in the oocyte and follicle cell layer in zebrafish

(2008) Florence L. Marlow et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The C. elegans SYS-1 Protein Is a Bona Fide β-Catenin

(2008) Jing Liu et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL