3 papers
physics.bio-ph2026
Decoding molecular distributional codes through collective instabilities
Mason N. Rouches, Dongyang Li, Michael B. Elowitz +1
Biological information is often encoded in molecular variants that differ in just a few chemical traits, such as the number of phosphorylated sites or ubiquitin chain length, rathe…
q-bio.SC2025
Theoretical limits for sensing through phase separation
Henry Alston, Mason Rouches, Arvind Murugan +2
Biomolecular condensates form on timescales of seconds in cells upon environmental or compositional changes. Condensate formation is thus argued to act as a mechanism for sensing s…
physics.bio-ph2025
Protein-DNA Co-condensation is Prewetting to a Collapsed Polymer
Mason N. Rouches, Benjamin B. Machta
The three-dimensional organization of chromatin is thought to play an important role in controlling gene expression. Specificity in expression is achieved through the interaction o…