학위논문(석사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 의과대학 의과학과, 2023. 8. 장성호.Our group has recently demonstrated that the proteins synaptophysin (Syph) and synapsin (Syn) can undergo a process called liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), resulting in the clustering of small synaptic-like microvesicles within living non-neuronal cells, resembling synaptic vesicle (SV) clusters. Despite the absence of direct physical interactions between Syph and Syn, the mechanism underlying their coacervation, or the formation of droplet-like clusters, has remained elusive. Here, I propose that multivalent electrostatic pi-cation interactions play a primary role in their coacervation. The C-terminal region (Ct) of Syph contains ten repeated sequences, with nine starting with tyrosin...