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Relating the Biogenesis and Function of P Bodies in Drosophila to Human Disease.

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Wilby, Elise L 

Abstract

Drosophila has been a premier model organism for over a century and many discoveries in flies have furthered our understanding of human disease. Flies have been successfully applied to many aspects of health-based research spanning from behavioural addiction, to dysplasia, to RNA dysregulation and protein misfolding. Recently, Drosophila tissues have been used to study biomolecular condensates and their role in multicellular systems. Identified in a wide range of plant and animal species, biomolecular condensates are dynamic, non-membrane-bound sub-compartments that have been observed and characterised in the cytoplasm and nuclei of many cell types. Condensate biology has exciting research prospects because of their diverse roles within cells, links to disease, and potential for therapeutics. In this review, we will discuss processing bodies (P bodies), a conserved biomolecular condensate, with a particular interest in how Drosophila can be applied to advance our understanding of condensate biogenesis and their role in disease.

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Peer reviewed: True


Funder: BBSRC DTP scholarship

Keywords

Drosophila, biomolecular condensates, processing bodies, translational regulation, Animals, Humans, Drosophila, Processing Bodies, Cell Nucleus, Cytoplasm, RNA

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2073-4425
2073-4425

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14

Publisher

MDPI AG
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (200734/Z/16/Z)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (2274380)