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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cell. 2015 Oct 15;60(2):220–230. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.09.017

Figure 7. RNAs control protein phase separation to pattern cytosol in Ashbya.

Figure 7

Model for linking biophysical properties of droplets to differences in cell function. We hypothesize that more viscous Whi3 droplets formed with CLN3 mRNA are adjacent to nuclei for controlling nuclear division timing and less viscous Whi3 droplets formed with BNI1 mRNA are at new branch sites or growth tips to establish polarity sites.