Stress granules, cellular structures essential for stress response, require poly(ADP-ribose) as a multivalent scaffold. Here, the authors show that disrupting poly(ADP-ribose) binding to PARP13 alters granule size, dynamics, and maturation, despite PARP13 lacking ADPribosyltransferase activity.
- Shang-Jung Cheng
- Temitope Gafaar
- Anthony K. L. Leung
