Publications by authors named "Yusuke Yoritaka"
Article Synopsis
- Membrane-less organelles are crucial in eukaryotic cells and can be artificially created to develop new cellular functions, but their properties are not well understood, especially in plants.
- Researchers built model artificial condensates using specific proteins in rice cells and discovered ways to alter properties like location, mobility, and size.
- They also created hybrid condensates with different characteristics by combining proteins and successfully modified these artificial organelles in transgenic Arabidopsis plants, offering insights into designing synthetic membrane-less organelles for plant research.
OsJAZ2 protein has a propensity to form condensates, possibly by multivalent interactions, and can be used to construct artificial compartments in plant cells. Eukaryotic cells contain various membraneless organelles, which are compartments consisting of proteinaceous condensates formed by phase separation. Such compartments are attractive for bioengineering and synthetic biology, because they can modify cellular function by the enrichment of molecules of interest and providing an orthogonal reaction system.
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