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    Cook K, Tsopurashvili E, Needham J, Thompson S, Cristea I. Restructured membrane contacts rewire organelles for human cytomegalovirus infection. Nat Commun. 2022;13(1):4720. PMCID: PMC9366835
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    Diegmiller R, Doherty C, Stern T, Alsous J, Shvartsman S. Size scaling in collective cell growth. Development. 2021;148(18). PMCID: PMC8489028
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    Wei M-T, Chang Y-C, Shimobayashi S, Shin Y, Strom A, Brangwynne C. Nucleated transcriptional condensates amplify gene expression. Nat Cell Biol. 2020;22(10):1187–1196. PMCID: 3343696
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    Kichuk T, Carrasco-López C, Avalos J. Lights up on organelles: Optogenetic tools to control subcellular structure and organization. WIREs Mech Dis. 2021;13(1):e1500. PMID: 32715616
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    Riback J, Zhu L, Ferrolino M, Tolbert M, Mitrea D, Sanders D, Wei M-T, Kriwacki R, Brangwynne C. Composition-dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation. Nature. 2020;581(7807):209–214. PMCID: PMC7733533
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    Wang L, Jonikas M. The pyrenoid. Curr Biol. 2020;30(10):R456-R458. PMID: 32428480
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    Trcek T, Douglas T, Grosch M, Yin Y, Eagle W, Gavis E, Shroff H, Rothenberg E, Lehmann R. Sequence-Independent Self-Assembly of Germ Granule mRNAs into Homotypic Clusters. Mol Cell. 2020;78(5):941–950.e12. PMCID: PMC7325742
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    Sanders D, Kedersha N, Lee D, Strom A, Drake V, Riback J, Bracha D, Eeftens J, Iwanicki A, Wang A, Wei M-T, Whitney G, Lyons S, Anderson P, Jacobs W, Ivanov P, Brangwynne C. Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization. Cell. 2020;181(2):306–324.e28. PMCID: PMC7816278
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    Bracha D, Walls M, Brangwynne C. Probing and engineering liquid-phase organelles. Nat Biotechnol. 2019;37(12):1435–1445. PMCID: 7434221
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    Zhao E, Suek N, Wilson M, Dine E, Pannucci N, Gitai Z, Avalos J, Toettcher J. Light-based control of metabolic flux through assembly of synthetic organelles. Nat Chem Biol. 2019;15(6):589–597. PMCID: PMC6755918
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    Cristea I, Lilley K. Editorial overview: Untangling proteome organization in space and time. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2019;48:A1-A4. PMID: 30782346
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    Cook K, Cristea I. Location is everything: protein translocations as a viral infection strategy. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2019;48:34–43. PMCID: PMC6382524
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    Dine E, Gil A, Uribe G, Brangwynne C, Toettcher J. Protein Phase Separation Provides Long-Term Memory of Transient Spatial Stimuli. Cell Syst. 2018;6(6):655–663.e5. PMCID: PMC6023754
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    Hammer S, Avalos J. Harnessing yeast organelles for metabolic engineering. Nat Chem Biol. 2017;13(8):823–832. PMID: 28853733
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    Dine E, Toettcher J. Optogenetic Reconstitution for Determining the Form and Function of Membraneless Organelles. Biochemistry. 2018;57(17):2432–2436. PMCID: PMC5972035
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    Wei M-T, Elbaum-Garfinkle S, Holehouse A, Chen C, Feric M, Arnold C, Priestley R, Pappu R, Brangwynne C. Phase behaviour of disordered proteins underlying low density and high permeability of liquid organelles. Nat Chem. 2017;9(11):1118–1125. PMCID: PMC9719604
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    Taylor N, Elbaum-Garfinkle S, Vaidya N, Zhang H, Stone H, Brangwynne C. Biophysical characterization of organelle-based RNA/protein liquid phases using microfluidics. Soft Matter. 2016;12(45):9142–9150. PMCID: PMC6724727
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    Beltran P, Mathias R, Cristea I. A Portrait of the Human Organelle Proteome In Space and Time during Cytomegalovirus Infection. Cell Syst. 2016;3(4):361–373.e6. PMCID: PMC5083158
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    Mackinder L, Meyer M, Mettler-Altmann T, Chen V, Mitchell M, Caspari O, Rosenzweig E, Pallesen L, Reeves G, Itakura A, Roth R, Sommer F, Geimer S, Mühlhaus T, Schroda M, Goodenough U, Stitt M, Griffiths H, Jonikas M. A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon-concentrating organelle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016;113(21):5958–63. PMCID: PMC4889370
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    Zhang H, Elbaum-Garfinkle S, Langdon E, Taylor N, Occhipinti P, Bridges A, Brangwynne C, Gladfelter A. RNA Controls PolyQ Protein Phase Transitions. Mol Cell. 2015;60(2):220–30. PMCID: PMC5221516
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    Feric M, Broedersz C, Brangwynne C. Soft viscoelastic properties of nuclear actin age oocytes due to gravitational creep. Sci Rep. 2015;5:16607. PMCID: PMC4649616
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