Nuclear dicing bodies were discovered in plants as subcellular droplets of a component of the Dicing complex, which is involved in microRNA production. Now they are revealed to be liquid–liquid phase-separated condensates with intrinsically disordered regions of the Dicing component SERRATE driving both phase separation and miRNA processing.
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Lee, S.C., Martienssen, R.A. Phase separation in plant miRNA processing. Nat Cell Biol 23, 5–6 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-020-00614-5
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