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Schematic showing the solubility as a function of temperature and self-interaction strength for a ligand-binding protein with a deep level of supersaturation. The cellular concentration of many proteins is tuned to be close to the saturation concentration. Small impacts, such as a change in physical–chemical conditions, lead to stronger interactions among the proteins and therefore induce a phase transition.
