Intracellular production of hydrogels and synthetic RNA granules by multivalent enhancers
Hideki Nakamura, Albert A. Lee, Ali Sobhi Afshar, Shigeki Watanabe, Elmer Rho, Shiva Razavi, Allister Suarez, Yu‐Chun Lin, Makoto Tanigawa, Brian Huang, Robert DeRose, Diana Bobb, William Hong, Sandra B. Gabelli, John I. Goutsias, Takanari Inoue
The paper develops iPOLYMER, a method to induce protein-based hydrogels in living cells, mimicking RNA granules by sequestering polyadenine-containing nucleotides.
Nature Materials · Nov 6, 2017Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology