DCP5 Osmotic Stress Granule

Senses molecular crowding

A plant cytoplasmic protein granule that rapidly and reversibly assembles under hyperosmotic stress to reprogram the translatome and transcriptome.

Wang, Zhenyu · Zhang, Dan · Wang, Yichuan · Pan, Yajie · Qiu, Yuping · Men, Yongfan · Yan, Wei · Xiao, Zhina · Ruixue, Sun · Li, Wenyang · Huang, Hongda · Guo, Hongwei

Science 2024

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Rapidly and reversibly assembles under hyperosmolarity

Sequesters plenty of mRNA and regulatory proteins