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Nucleolar Stress-Induced Membrane-Less Organelles: Proteome Analysis through the Prism of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation

Version 1 : Received: 30 April 2023 / Approved: 30 April 2023 / Online: 30 April 2023 (05:18:24 CEST)

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Mokin, Y.I.; Gavrilova, A.A.; Fefilova, A.S.; Kuznetsova, I.M.; Turoverov, K.K.; Uversky, V.N.; Fonin, A.V. Nucleolar- and Nuclear-Stress-Induced Membrane-Less Organelles: A Proteome Analysis through the Prism of Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 11007. Mokin, Y.I.; Gavrilova, A.A.; Fefilova, A.S.; Kuznetsova, I.M.; Turoverov, K.K.; Uversky, V.N.; Fonin, A.V. Nucleolar- and Nuclear-Stress-Induced Membrane-Less Organelles: A Proteome Analysis through the Prism of Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 11007.

Abstract

Radical changes in the idea of the organization of the intracellular space that occurred in the early 2010-s made it possible to consider the formation and functioning of the so-called membrane-less organelles (MLOs) based on a single physical principle: the liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of biopolymers. Weak nonspecific inter- and intramolecular interactions of disordered polymers, primarily of intrinsically disordered proteins and RNA, play a central role in the initiation and regulation of these processes. On the other hand, in some cases, the "maturation" of MLOs can be accompanied by the "liquid-gel” phase transition, where other types of interactions can play a significant role in reorganization of their structure. In this work, we conducted a bioinformatics analysis of the propensity of the proteomes of two membrane-less organelles formed in response to stress in the same compartment, nucleolus, for spontaneous phase separation and looked at their intrinsic disorder predispositions. These nucleolar MLOs, amyloid bodies (A-bodies) formed in the response to acidosis and heat shock and nuclear stress bodies (nSBs), are characterized by the partially overlapping composition, but show different functional activities and morphologies. We show that the proteomes of these nucleolar biocondensates are differently enriched in proteins, many of with high potential for spontaneous LLPS that correlates with different morphology and function of these organelles. The results of these analyses allowed us to evaluate the role of weak interactions in the formation and functioning of these important organelles.

Keywords

amyloid bodies; intrinsically disordered protein; liquid-liquid phase separation; membrane-less organelle; nuclear stress bodies; nucleolar biomolecular condensates

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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