Subcompartmentalization of polyampholyte species in organelle-like condensates is promoted by charge pattern mismatch and strong excluded-volume interaction
2020
Polyampholyte field theory and explicit-chain molecular dynamics models of sequence-specific phase separation of a system with two intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) species indicate consistently that a substantial polymer excluded volume and a significant mismatch of the IDP sequence charge patterns can act in concert, but not in isolation, to demix the two IDP species upon condensation. This finding reveals an energetic-geometric interplay in a stochastic, ``fuzzy'' molecular recognition mechanism that may facilitate subcompartmentalization of membraneless organelles.
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