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ArticleNature chemical biology2025

Programmable solid-state condensates for spatiotemporal control of mammalian gene expression.

Yukai Wang, Jian Jiang, Qiqi Xiong, Shichao Li, Jiawei Shao, Mingqi Xie, An-Ping Zeng

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Yukai Wang *School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7859-463X
Jian Jiang *School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1922-7489
Qiqi XiongSchool of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Shichao LiWestlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China.
Jiawei ShaoCenter for Regenerative and Aging Medicine, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of School of Medicine and International School of Medicine, International Institutes of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Yiwu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3213-3575
Mingqi XieCenter of Synthetic Biology and Integrated Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. xiemingqi@westlake.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5657-532X
An-Ping ZengCenter of Synthetic Biology and Integrated Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. zenganping@westlake.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9768-7096

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Engineering of nuclear condensates with chemically inducible gene switches is highly desired but challenging for precise and on-demand regulation of mammalian gene expression. Here, we harness the phase-separation capability of biomolecular condensates and describe a versatile strategy to chemically program ligand-dependent gene expression at various stages of interest. By engineering synthetic anchor proteins capable of tethering various genetically encoded condensate structures toward different cellular compartments or gene products of interest, inducible regulation of transcriptional and translational activities was achieved at different endogenous and episomal loci using the same sets of anchor proteins and synthetic solid-state condensates. Using such a holistic condensate-based strategy, we not only achieved regulation performances comparing favorably to state-of-the-art strategies described for CRISPR-Cas9 activity and transcriptional silencing but further showed that chemically inducible retention of mRNA molecules into engineered condensate structures within the nucleus can become a remarkably efficient alternative for translational regulation.

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Biomolecular CondensatesGene Expression RegulationAnimalsCell NucleusCRISPR-Cas SystemsHEK293 CellsHeLa CellsHumansRNA, MessengerRNA, Messenger

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PMID40087540
PMCPMC12394073

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