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20232026
most citedEmergence of multiphase condensates from a limited set of chemical building blocks

17 citations · 41 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.bio-ph2026

Co-condensation and multivalency enable acetylation-sensitive, concentration-robust assembly of BRD4 condensates

Yury Polyachenko, Hans-Frederick Watanabe, Alexei Korolev +1

Biomolecular condensates must assemble at specific locations and times inside living cells to perform their biological functions. However, it remains unclear whether condensate for…

cond-mat.soft2026

A thermodynamic metric quantitatively predicts disordered protein partitioning and multicomponent phase behavior

Zhuang Liu, Beijia Yuan, Mihir Rao +2

Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins mediate sequence-specific interactions underlying diverse cellular processes, including the formation of biomolecular condensate…

cond-mat.soft2025

When is Not Enough: Evaluating Simple Metrics for Predicting Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Wesley W. Oliver, William M. Jacobs, Michael A. Webb

Understanding and predicting the phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is of significant interest due to their role in many biological processes. However, effe…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Cooperation and competition of basepairing and electrostatic interactions in mixtures of DNA nanostars and polylysine

Gabrielle R. Abraham, Tianhao Li, Anna Nguyen +2

Phase separation in biomolecular mixtures can result from multiple physical interactions, which may act either complementarily or antagonistically. In the case of protein-nucleic a…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Dynamical phase transition in the growth of programmable polymorphic materials

Fan Chen, William M. Jacobs

The hallmark feature of polymorphic systems is their ability to assemble into many possible structures at the same thermodynamic state. Designer polymorphic materials can in princi…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 4 cited

Predicting Heteropolymer Phase Separation Using Two-Chain Contact Maps

Jessica Jin, Wesley Oliver, Michael A. Webb +1

Phase separation in polymer solutions often correlates with single-chain and two-chain properties, such as the single-chain radius of gyration, Rg, and the pairwise second virial c…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 11 cited

Predicting the morphology of multiphase biomolecular condensates from protein interaction networks

Tianhao Li, William M. Jacobs

Phase-separated biomolecular condensates containing proteins and RNAs can assemble into higher-order structures by forming thermodynamically stable interfaces between immiscible ph…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 17 cited

Emergence of multiphase condensates from a limited set of chemical building blocks

Fan Chen, William M. Jacobs

Biomolecules composed of a limited set of chemical building blocks can co-localize into distinct, spatially segregated compartments known as biomolecular condensates. While many co…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 7 cited

Competition between self-assembly and phase separation governs high-temperature condensation of a DNA liquid

Omkar Hegde, Tianhao Li, Anjali Sharma +3

In many biopolymer solutions, attractive interactions that stabilize finite-sized clusters at low concentrations also promote phase separation at high concentrations. Here we study…