Chinese Academy of Sciences
The phenomenon of “liquid-liquid” phase separation (LLPS) of biological macromolecules in living cells regulates many cell activities.
DNA LLPS manipulates many important processes such as gene transcription, translation, and chromosome high-level structure assembly. Abnormity of DNA LLPS causes oncogene expression, genome inactivation, uncontrolled transcription activation and other cellular processes, which are directly related to fatal diseases.
Recently, a research group led by Prof. LI Guohui from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. MAO Zongwan’s group from Sun Yat-Sen University, revealed the molecular mechanism of ruthenium complex induced DNA phase separation in living cells.
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A research team led by professor YU Shuhong at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has reported a new class of heteronanostructures they term axial superlattice nanowires (ASLNWs), which allow large lattice-mismatch tolerance and thus vast material combinations. The research article entitled One-Dimensional Superlattice Heterostructure Library was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society on May 12th.