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SOURCES — llps-nuclear-bodies (Track 2, academic)

All raster imagery is openly licensed: CC0 or CC-BY only. No CC BY-SA, no non-open figures. PDB atomic coordinates are public domain (RCSB Protein Data Bank) and were rendered for these graphics with a self-written matplotlib C-alpha trace renderer (infographics-build/render_pdb.py). No micrograph was fabricated.

Kept

1. PDB 2P1B — nucleophosmin (NPM1) core domain, pentamer
2. Source: RCSB Protein Data Bank, entry 2P1B (Lee et al., crystal structure of the nucleoplasmin-like core domain of nucleophosmin).
3. License: public-domain coordinates.
4. Used in: llps-nuclear-bodies-molecular-cascade.png, panels 1 and 3 (side and top views).

5. Attribution line on graphic: "PDB 2P1B · public-domain coordinates, rendered for this graphic"

6. PDB 5W3N — hnRNP A2 low-complexity domain, assembled fibril

7. Source: RCSB Protein Data Bank, entry 5W3N (Lu et al., atomic structure of the hnRNPA2 low-complexity domain).
8. License: public-domain coordinates.
9. Used in: llps-nuclear-bodies-molecular-cascade.png, panel 2.

10. Attribution line on graphic: "PDB 5W3N · public-domain coordinates, rendered for this graphic"

11. Main antinuclear antibody patterns on immunofluorescence

12. Source: Wikimedia Commons, File:Main antinuclear antibody patterns on immunofluorescence.png
13. Authors: Al-Mughales JA (2022); minor edits by Mikael Häggström, M.D.
14. License: CC BY 4.0.
15. Used in: llps-nuclear-bodies-cellular-scene.png, panel 1. Shows speckled, homogeneous, mixed, nucleolar, centromere and peripheral nuclear staining patterns in human cells.
16. Attribution line on graphic: "Al-Mughales JA (2022) · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0"

Rejected

• PLOS Biology 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003775, Fig. 1 (polyphosphate-driven condensates in E. coli; CC BY 4.0) — rejected: bacterial system, wrong biological context for nuclear bodies.
• Murthy et al., Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 2019 (FUS LCD droplet fusion micrographs) — rejected: not open access; no CC-BY license available.
• Cells review PMC13565447, Figs. 1–2 (CC BY 4.0) — rejected: figure download blocked by publisher bot protection; figures were schematic composites rather than primary micrographs.
• Wikimedia Commons File:NucleolusNCc.jpg — rejected: CC BY-SA 4.0 (share-alike not permitted).
• Wikimedia Commons File:DL20240202 NCL-in-T98G.tif — rejected: CC BY-SA 4.0 (share-alike not permitted).

Imagery gaps

• No openly licensed (CC0/CC-BY) micrograph of liquid-like droplet fusion in a eukaryotic nucleus was found; the molecular panels therefore rely on real protein structures and the cellular panel on real nuclear-body immunofluorescence rather than droplet micrographs.