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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9088
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation [NNF14CC0001]
- Danish Council for Independent Research
- Danish Cancer Society
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Program for Career Development [626832]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PP00P3_150690/1]
- MLS Program of the Life Science Zurich Graduate School
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research [PI Jiri Lukas] Funding Source: researchfish
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PP00P3_150690] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Intrinsically disordered proteins can phase separate from the soluble intracellular space, and tend to aggregate under pathological conditions. The physiological functions and molecular triggers of liquid demixing by phase separation are not well understood. Here we show in vitro and in vivo that the nucleic acid-mimicking biopolymer poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) nucleates intracellular liquid demixing. PAR levels are markedly induced at sites of DNA damage, and we provide evidence that PAR-seeded liquid demixing results in rapid, yet transient and fully reversible assembly of various intrinsically disordered proteins at DNA break sites. Demixing, which relies on electrostatic interactions between positively charged RGG repeats and negatively charged PAR, is amplified by aggregation-prone prion-like domains, and orchestrates the earliest cellular responses to DNA breakage. We propose that PAR-seeded liquid demixing is a general mechanism to dynamically reorganize the soluble nuclear space with implications for pathological protein aggregation caused by derailed phase separation.
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