I have not found a good definition of interchromatin granule clusters. Beginning concerns are: 1) the clusters have non membrane bounds, this presents a perfect opportunity for misconceptions. Here are some predictions:
- inerchromatin granule clusters behave like lipid droplets (begin perhaps irregularly shaped but finally ends up roundish.
- Variations in the granularity of interchromatin granule clusters, coarse, fine, symmetrically placed, numerous and also scarce, large and small.
- Numerous protein-protein- protein-RNA interactions
- Abundance of different proteins, at various times, some of which can form oligomers such as SPOP (which can make 25-mers) and the degree of oligomerization may depend upon the concentration of protein in the interchromatin granule cluster.
- The cluster itself has boundaries that are clearly demarkated regardless of the number and size of structures with those boundaries.
- SPOP dimers help organize higher order structures within the interchromatin granules clusters and other places