P-Body BPoD
Membrane-less compartments within cells known as condensates contain concentrated molecules, and interact but are discrete from each other by virtue of phase-separation. Condensates are emerging as important regulators of cellular biochemistry. This study of condensates using live and super resolution imaging in fruit fly egg production, divulges the formation of a distinct kind of (processing) P-body condensate associated with the membrane of the protein transporting and folding organelle, the endoplasmic reticulum
Read the published research article here
Image captured with Leica Microsystems microscopy
Image from work by Samantha N Milano and colleagues
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter CollegeCity University of New York New York NY, USA
Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in EMBO Reports, December 2024
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