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Using Solution NMR to Characterize Biomolecular Condensates Under Biphasic Conditions
Published on: April 17, 2026
Databases of liquid-liquid phase separation proteins and condensates
Carlos Pintado-Grima1, Michał Burdukiewicz2, Salvador Ventura3
1Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina and Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain.
Abstract:
Protein liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and the formation of biomolecular condensates are increasingly recognized as important in both cellular physiology and pathology. However, the computational databases developed to catalog LLPS-associated proteins differ significantly in scope, curation strategies, evidence models, and annotation granularity. Here, we compare the main LLPS databases, discuss what each resource captures well, where role definitions and evidence models diverge, which metadata remain limited, and how these differences affect data interpretation and reuse. We argue that future resources should prioritize interoperable vocabularies, explicit data origin, condition-aware annotations, and stronger integration with region-level, structural, and mutational information.
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