<i>β</i> -motifs and molecular flux promote amyloid nucleation at condensate interfaces
-prone segments. Second, varying segment rigidity and molecular supply rate organizes a non-equilibrium phase diagram with four interfacial growth morphologies, ranging from uniform wetting to fibrillar protrusions and inter-condensate bridging networks. Third, directional fibril elongation displays an inverse relationship with drift velocity, consistent with a mechanism in which higher transport rates to the interface favor planar saturation over directed tip incorporation. Together, these results support a picture in which condensate interfaces can act as kinetically favorable nucleation environments, sequence-encoded rigidity helps determine whether interfaces remain liquid-like or become fibrillar, and molecular flux emerges as an additional control axis in the model for condensate aging trajectories.
Authors
- Davit A. Potoyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5860-1699)
- Subhadip Biswas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3184-5295)
Institutions
- Iowa State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Published
- 2026-04-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.09.717507
- Primary Topic
- Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00