Short autoinhibitory sequences control phase separation of an essential bacterial transcription termination factor

Authors

• Emilia Krypotou, Yale University
• Kiersten M Ruff, Washington University in St. Louis
• Leah K McKinney, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Guy E Townsend II, Yale University
• Jue D Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Rohit V Pappu, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Eduardo A Groisman, Yale University

Journal

EMBO journal

Publication Date

6-1-2026

Volume

45

Issue

12

First Page

4124

Last Page

4152

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1038/s44318-026-00793-1

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Krypotou, E., Ruff, K.M., McKinney, L.K. et al. Short autoinhibitory sequences control phase separation of an essential bacterial transcription termination factor. EMBO J 45, 4124–4152 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-026-00793-1 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the data associated with this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data, but does not extend to the graphical or creative elements of illustrations, charts, or figures. This waiver removes legal barriers to the re-use and mining of research data. According to standard scholarly practice, it is recommended to provide appropriate citation and attribution whenever technically possible.

Recommended Citation

Krypotou, Emilia; Ruff, Kiersten M; McKinney, Leah K; Townsend, Guy E II; Wang, Jue D; Pappu, Rohit V; and Groisman, Eduardo A, "Short autoinhibitory sequences control phase separation of an essential bacterial transcription termination factor." EMBO journal. 45, 12. 4124 - 4152. (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/6939

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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