Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Research Highlight
  • Published:

MOLECULAR ENGINEERING

Artificial biomolecular condensates

Nature Methods volume 16, page 23 (2019)Cite this article

Subjects

Synthetic small molecules can form liquid-phase condensates and simultaneously sequester intracellular enzymes.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on SpringerLink
  • Instant access to the full article PDF.

USD 39.95

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Research papers

  • Boija, A. et al. Transcription factors activate genes through the phase-separation capacity of their activation domains. Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.042 (2018).

  • Feng, Z., Wang, H. & Xu, B. Instructed assembly of peptides for intracellular enzyme sequestration. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 16433–16437 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Nature Methods http://www.nature.com/nmeth

    Lei Tang

Authors
  1. Lei Tang
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Lei Tang.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Tang, L. Artificial biomolecular condensates. Nat Methods 16, 23 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0288-4

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Version of record:

  • Issue date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0288-4

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing