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Schrumpfová PP, Vychodilová I, Hapala J, Schořová Š, Dvořáček V, Fajkus J. Telomere binding protein TRB1 is associated with promoters of translation machinery genes in vivo. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 90:189-206. [PMID: 26597966 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-015-0409-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Recently we characterised TRB1, a protein from a single-myb-histone family, as a structural and functional component of telomeres in Arabidopsis thaliana. TRB proteins, besides their ability to bind specifically to telomeric DNA using their N-terminally positioned myb-like domain of the same type as in human shelterin proteins TRF1 or TRF2, also possess a histone-like domain which is involved in protein-protein interactions e.g., with POT1b. Here we set out to investigate the genome-wide localization pattern of TRB1 to reveal its preferential sites of binding to chromatin in vivo and its potential functional roles in the genome-wide context. Our results demonstrate that TRB1 is preferentially associated with promoter regions of genes involved in ribosome biogenesis, in addition to its roles at telomeres. This preference coincides with the frequent occurrence of telobox motifs in the upstream regions of genes in this category, but it is not restricted to the presence of a telobox. We conclude that TRB1 shows a specific genome-wide distribution pattern which suggests its role in regulation of genes involved in biogenesis of the translational machinery, in addition to its preferential telomeric localization.
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- Petra Procházková Schrumpfová
- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, 61265, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, 61265, Brno, Czech Republic.
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RNA transcription modulates phase transition-driven nuclear body assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:E5237-45. [PMID: 26351690 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509317112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Nuclear bodies are RNA and protein-rich, membraneless organelles that play important roles in gene regulation. The largest and most well-known nuclear body is the nucleolus, an organelle whose primary function in ribosome biogenesis makes it key for cell growth and size homeostasis. The nucleolus and other nuclear bodies behave like liquid-phase droplets and appear to condense from the nucleoplasm by concentration-dependent phase separation. However, nucleoli actively consume chemical energy, and it is unclear how such nonequilibrium activity might impact classical liquid-liquid phase separation. Here, we combine in vivo and in vitro experiments with theory and simulation to characterize the assembly and disassembly dynamics of nucleoli in early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. In addition to classical nucleoli that assemble at the transcriptionally active nucleolar organizing regions, we observe dozens of "extranucleolar droplets" (ENDs) that condense in the nucleoplasm in a transcription-independent manner. We show that growth of nucleoli and ENDs is consistent with a first-order phase transition in which late-stage coarsening dynamics are mediated by Brownian coalescence and, to a lesser degree, Ostwald ripening. By manipulating C. elegans cell size, we change nucleolar component concentration and confirm several key model predictions. Our results show that rRNA transcription and other nonequilibrium biological activity can modulate the effective thermodynamic parameters governing nucleolar and END assembly, but do not appear to fundamentally alter the passive phase separation mechanism.
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Armistead J, Patel N, Wu X, Hemming R, Chowdhury B, Basra GS, Del Bigio MR, Ding H, Triggs-Raine B. Growth arrest in the ribosomopathy, Bowen-Conradi syndrome, is due to dramatically reduced cell proliferation and a defect in mitotic progression. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2015; 1852:1029-37. [PMID: 25708872 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2015.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Revised: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 02/14/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Bowen-Conradi syndrome (BCS) is a ribosomopathy characterized by severe developmental delay and growth failure that typically leads to death by one year of age. It is caused by a c.257A>G, p.D86G substitution in the ribosomal biogenesis protein, Essential for Mitotic Growth 1 (EMG1). We generated a knock-in of the D86G substitution in mice to characterize the effects of EMG1 deficiency, particularly in the brain, where EMG1 expression is high. Embryos homozygous for the mutation in Emg1 were small for gestational age with neural tube defects, and died between embryonic days 8.5 and 12.5. These embryos exhibited dramatically reduced cell proliferation, which we also detected in autopsy brain tissue and bone marrow of BCS patients, consistent with a requirement for high levels of EMG1 in tissues with rapid cell proliferation. In fibroblasts derived from the BCS mouse embryos, we detected a high proportion of binucleated cells, indicating that a mitotic defect underlies the growth arrest in BCS. These studies add to growing evidence of a link between ribosome biogenesis, mitotic progression, and brain development that is currently unexplored.
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- Joy Armistead
- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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Chapard C, Meraldi P, Gleich T, Bachmann D, Hohl D, Huber M. TRAIP is a regulator of the spindle assembly checkpoint. J Cell Sci 2014; 127:5149-56. [PMID: 25335891 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.152579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Accurate chromosome segregation during mitosis is temporally and spatially coordinated by fidelity-monitoring checkpoint systems. Deficiencies in these checkpoint systems can lead to chromosome segregation errors and aneuploidy, and promote tumorigenesis. Here, we report that the TRAF-interacting protein (TRAIP), a ubiquitously expressed nucleolar E3 ubiquitin ligase important for cellular proliferation, is localized close to mitotic chromosomes. Its knockdown in HeLa cells by RNA interference (RNAi) decreased the time of early mitosis progression from nuclear envelope breakdown (NEB) to anaphase onset and increased the percentages of chromosome alignment defects in metaphase and lagging chromosomes in anaphase compared with those of control cells. The decrease in progression time was corrected by the expression of wild-type but not a ubiquitin-ligase-deficient form of TRAIP. TRAIP-depleted cells bypassed taxol-induced mitotic arrest and displayed significantly reduced kinetochore levels of MAD2 (also known as MAD2L1) but not of other spindle checkpoint proteins in the presence of nocodazole. These results imply that TRAIP regulates the spindle assembly checkpoint, MAD2 abundance at kinetochores and the accurate cellular distribution of chromosomes. The TRAIP ubiquitin ligase activity is functionally required for the spindle assembly checkpoint control.
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- Christophe Chapard
- Service of Dermatology, Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Service of Dermatology, Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service of Dermatology, Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service of Dermatology, Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service of Dermatology, Lausanne University Hospital, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Sobol M, Yildirim S, Philimonenko VV, Marášek P, Castaño E, Hozák P. UBF complexes with phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in nucleolar organizer regions regardless of ongoing RNA polymerase I activity. Nucleus 2014; 4:478-86. [PMID: 24513678 PMCID: PMC3925692 DOI: 10.4161/nucl.27154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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To maintain growth and division, cells require a large-scale production of rRNAs which occurs in the nucleolus. Recently, we have shown the interaction of nucleolar phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) with proteins involved in rRNA transcription and processing, namely RNA polymerase I (Pol I), UBF, and fibrillarin. Here we extend the study by investigating transcription-related localization of PIP2 in regards to transcription and processing complexes of Pol I. To achieve this, we used either physiological inhibition of transcription during mitosis or inhibition by treatment the cells with actinomycin D (AMD) or 5,6-dichloro-1β-d-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole (DRB). We show that PIP2 is associated with Pol I subunits and UBF in a transcription-independent manner. On the other hand, PIP2/fibrillarin colocalization is dependent on the production of rRNA. These results indicate that PIP2 is required not only during rRNA production and biogenesis, as we have shown before, but also plays a structural role as an anchor for the Pol I pre-initiation complex during the cell cycle. We suggest that throughout mitosis, PIP2 together with UBF is involved in forming and maintaining the core platform of the rDNA helix structure. Thus we introduce PIP2 as a novel component of the NOR complex, which is further engaged in the renewed rRNA synthesis upon exit from mitosis.
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- Margarita Sobol
- Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR v.v.i.; Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus; Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR v.v.i.; Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus; Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR v.v.i.; Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus; Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR v.v.i.; Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus; Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR v.v.i.; Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus; Prague, Czech Republic; Biochemistry and Molecular Plant Biology Department; CICY; Mérida, México
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR v.v.i.; Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus; Prague, Czech Republic
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Yildirim S, Castano E, Sobol M, Philimonenko VV, Dzijak R, Venit T, Hozák P. Involvement of PIP2 in RNA Polymerase I transcription. J Cell Sci 2013; 126:2730-9. [DOI: 10.1242/jcs.123661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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RNA polymerase I (Pol I) transcription is essential for the cell cycle, growth, and overall protein synthesis in eukaryotes. We found that phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is a part of the protein complex on the active ribosomal promoter during the transcription. PIP2 makes a complex with Pol I and Pol I transcription factor UBF in the nucleolus. PIP2 depletion reduces Pol I transcription which can be rescued by the addition of exogenous PIP2. In addition, PIP2 also binds directly to the pre-rRNA processing factor, fibrillarin (Fib), and co-localizes with nascent transcripts in the nucleolus. PIP2 binding to UBF and Fib modulates their binding to DNA and RNA, respectively. In conclusion, PIP2 interacts with a subset of Pol I transcription machinery, and promotes Pol I transcription.
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Excision repair of BPDE-adducts in human lymphocytes: diminished capacity associated with ERCC1 C8092A (rs3212986) polymorphism. Arch Toxicol 2012. [PMID: 23203453 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-012-0986-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide (BPDE), a metabolite of Benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), is a high-risk factor for development of a number of cancers. DNA damage caused by BPDE is normally repaired by Nucleotide Excision Repair system of which ERCC1 exerts an important role. We investigated whether two single nucleotide polymorphisms in ERCC1 (C19007T; rs11615 and C8092A; rs3213986) affected the repair efficacy of BPDE-DNA adducts. We collected peripheral blood of 780 healthy individuals from the northeast of China and detected the genotypes of rs11615 and rs3213986. The amount of induced BPDE-DNA adducts in lymphocytes from 117 randomly selected participants was assessed by HPLC. Presence of BPDE-DNA adducts in nucleus of lymphocytes was visualized using the modified comet assay. ERCC1 and CAST (3' adjacent gene of ERCC1) mRNA expression levels were quantified after in vitro exposure to BPDE. We found that the minor A allele in rs3212986 was related to higher levels of BPDE-DNA adducts and holistic marking DNA damage (P < 0.01). Haplotype CA (rs11615 and rs3213986) was also associated with an elevated risk of high BPDE-DNA adduct levels (OR = 1.801, 95 % CI of OR 1.191-2.724). Interestingly, in participants with AA genotype for rs3213986, CAST mRNA level was decreased compared to individuals with the homozygous CC genotype. Our findings suggests that ERCC1 C8092A (rs3213986) is associated with a diminished capacity of repairing BPDE-DNA adducts and may be used as a valid biomarker to predict an individual's risk to develop cancer upon exposure to environmental carcinogens.
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Castanhole MMU, Pereira LLV, de Souza HV, Itoyama MM. Spermatogenesis of riffle bugs, Rhagovelia whitei and Rhagovelia sp (Veliidae), and backswimmers Martarega sp (Notonectidae). GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH 2012; 11:2003-20. [PMID: 22911585 DOI: 10.4238/2012.august.6.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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We examined the course of spermatogenesis and the meiotic chromosome complements in aquatic species of true bugs, Heteroptera. The chromosome complement of the Veliidae species was 2n = 39 (38A + X0) and 23 (22A + X0) in Rhagovelia whitei and Rhagovelia sp, respectively, and in the species of the Notonectidae (Martarega sp) it was 26 (22A + 2m + XY); all collected from the region of São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. An impressive characteristic of the first analysis was the size of the cells belonging to Martarega sp, which were six times larger than the same cells in Pentatomidae and twice as large as the cells in aquatic Heteroptera (Gerridae). Regarding spermatogenesis, all the species analyzed showed the same pattern: holocentric chromosomes and elongated spermatids with the chromatin distributed evenly along the head. The family Veliidae showed several bodies impregnated with silver nitrate at prophase, while the family Notonectidae displayed only one. The cells of Notonectidae also showed an evident and round body until the end of prophase I and in the family Veliidae the silver-impregnated bodies were disorganized, where the only region visualized was possibly that of the NOR. In metaphase, silver-stained regions were found at the periphery of all chromosomes in Veliidae and at the periphery of some chromosomes in Notonectidae. The spermatids of Veliidae showed a less silver-impregnated vesicle, while Notonectidae showed silver staining only in part of the nuclear membrane. Therefore, families of Heteroptera have some differences and features that can help identify and classify these species.
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- M M U Castanhole
- Laboratório de Citogenética e Molecular de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brasil
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Stępiński D. Nucleolin level in plant root meristematic cells under chilling stress and recovery. Micron 2012; 43:870-5. [PMID: 22483616 DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2012.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Revised: 02/27/2012] [Accepted: 02/28/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Nucleolin and its homologues are multifunctional proteins which reside mainly in nucleoli of yeast, animal and plant cells. Hence, they are generally implicated in many stages of ribosome biosynthesis. In this study nucleolin was identified in root meristematic cell nucleoli of soybean plants subjected to chilling stress, recovered after chilling and under control conditions with the use of the immunogold electron microscopy technique. Soybean nucleoli exhibited various metabolic activities under these conditions (Stępiński, 2004). Current studies showed that the level of nucleolin, expressed as a number of gold grains per μm(2), varied in particular subnucleolar regions in the soybean root meristematic cell nucleoli. Labeling density changed in these regions when plants were subjected to the given treatment. Most abundantly this protein was present in dense fibrillar component (DFC) around fibrillar centers (FCs) in the nucleoli of recovered plants, while in the nucleoli of stressed plants this region contained the lowest level of nucleolin. It can be supposed that nucleolin participates in ribosome biogenesis and its level is correlated with metabolic activity of soybean nucleoli - the more active nucleoli, the higher level of nucleolin and vice versa.
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- Dariusz Stępiński
- Department of Cytophysiology, University of Łódź, Pomorska 141/143, 90-236 Łódź, Poland.
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In the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode, the oocyte nucleolus disappears prior to fertilization. We have now investigated the re-formation of the nucleolus in the early embryo of this model organism by immunostaining for fibrillarin and DAO-5, a putative NOLC1/Nopp140 homolog involved in ribosome assembly. We find that labeled nucleoli first appear in somatic cells at around the 8-cell stage, at a time when transcription of the embryonic genome begins. Quantitative analysis of radial positioning showed the nucleolus to be localized at the nuclear periphery in a majority of early embryonic nuclei. At the ultrastructural level, the embryonic nucleolus appears to be composed of a relatively homogenous core surrounded by a crescent-shaped granular structure. Prior to embryonic genome activation, fibrillarin and DAO-5 staining is seen in numerous small nucleoplasmic foci. This staining pattern persists in the germline up to the ∼100-cell stage, until the P4 germ cell divides to give rise to the Z2/Z3 primordial germ cells and embryonic transcription is activated in this lineage. In the ncl-1 mutant, which is characterized by increased transcription of rDNA, DAO-5-labeled nucleoli are already present at the 2-cell stage. Our results suggest a link between the activation of transcription and the initial formation of nucleoli in the C. elegans embryo.
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Hernandez-Verdun D. Assembly and disassembly of the nucleolus during the cell cycle. Nucleus 2012; 2:189-94. [PMID: 21818412 DOI: 10.4161/nucl.2.3.16246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2011] [Revised: 04/28/2011] [Accepted: 05/02/2011] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The nucleolus is a large nuclear domain in which transcription, maturation and assembly of ribosomes take place. In higher eukaryotes, nucleolar organization in three sub-domains reflects the compartmentation of the machineries related to active or inactive transcription of the ribosomal DNA, ribosomal RNA processing and assembly with ribosomal proteins of the two (40S and 60S) ribosomal subunits. The assembly of the nucleoli during telophase/early G(1) depends on pre-existing machineries inactivated during prophase (the transcription machinery and RNP processing complexes) and on partially processed 45S rRNAs inherited throughout mitosis. In telophase, the 45S rRNAs nucleate the prenucleolar bodies and order the dynamics of nucleolar assembly. The assembly/disassembly processes of the nucleolus depend on the equilibrium between phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of the transcription machinery and on the RNP processing complexes under the control of the CDK1-cyclin B kinase and PP1 phosphatases. The dynamics of assembly/disassembly of the nucleolus is time and space regulated.
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Barros LAC, De Aguiar HJAC, Andrade-Souza V, Mariano CDSF, Delabie JHC, Pompolo SDG. Occurrence of pre-nucleolar bodies and 45S rDNA location on the chromosomes of the ant Mycocepurus goeldii (Forel) (Formicidae, Myrmicinae, Attini). Hereditas 2011; 149:50-4. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2011.02237.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Beguelini MR, Puga CC, Taboga SR, Morielle-Versute E. Ultrastructure of spermatogenesis in the white-lined broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus lineatus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Micron 2011; 42:586-99. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2011.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2010] [Revised: 02/11/2011] [Accepted: 02/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hernandez-Verdun D, Roussel P, Thiry M, Sirri V, Lafontaine DLJ. The nucleolus: structure/function relationship in RNA metabolism. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2010; 1:415-31. [PMID: 21956940 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The nucleolus is the ribosome factory of the cells. This is the nuclear domain where ribosomal RNAs are synthesized, processed, and assembled with ribosomal proteins. Here we describe the classical tripartite organization of the nucleolus in mammals, reflecting ribosomal gene transcription and pre-ribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) processing efficiency: fibrillar center, dense fibrillar component, and granular component. We review the nucleolar organization across evolution from the bipartite organization in yeast to the tripartite organization in humans. We discuss the basic principles of nucleolar assembly and nucleolar structure/function relationship in RNA metabolism. The control of nucleolar assembly is presented as well as the role of pre-existing machineries and pre-rRNAs inherited from the previous cell cycle. In addition, nucleoli carry many essential extra ribosomal functions and are closely linked to cellular homeostasis and human health. The last part of this review presents recent advances in nucleolar dysfunctions in human pathology such as cancer and virus infections that modify the nucleolar organization.
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- Danièle Hernandez-Verdun
- Nuclei and cell cycle, Institut Jacques Monod-UMR 7592 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, 75205 Paris cedex 13, France.
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Morielle-Souza A, Taboga SR, de Azeredo-Oliveira MTV. Ultrastructural analysis of the nucleolar aspects at spermiogenesis in triatomines (Heteroptera, Triatominae). Micron 2010; 41:791-6. [PMID: 20619665 DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2010.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2010] [Revised: 05/19/2010] [Accepted: 05/19/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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In this study the ultrastructural technique was used to analyze seminiferous tubule cells of the triatomine species Panstrongylus megistus, Rhodnius pallescens and Triatoma infestans. The data obtained provided evidence of the phenomenon known as persistence of the nucleolar material in initial spermatids at early differentiation. Our results confirmed the presence of the nucleolus and its products during spermiogenesis up to the formation of the axoneme and during spermatid elongation in all three species studied, similar to the process that takes place during cell division. In early spermatids, the nucleoli had a reticulate appearance and a well defined nucleolonema in P. megistus; showed a clear distinction between the fibrillar and the granular component in T. infestans; and had a compact aspect in R. pallescens. In this study, ultrastructural analyses at spermiogenesis indicated that these nucleolar products may represent RNP complexes that will probably be needed at early spermiogenesis when important changes such as chromatin condensation and acrosome and flagellum formation take place. Therefore, it was concluded from the ultrastructural analysis that the triatomine nucleolus does not totally disappear but remains as corpuscles that gather to form the next nucleolar cycle that in the case of meiosis, will be completed if fertilization occurs and a zygote is formed.
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- Alessandra Morielle-Souza
- São Paulo State University - UNESP/IBILCE, Department of Biology, Rua Cristóvão Colombo, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil.
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Castanhole MMU, Pereira LLV, de Souza HV, Valério JR, Barbosa LR, Itoyama MM. Meiotic chromosomes and nucleolar behavior in testicular cells of the grassland spittlebugs Deois flavopicta, Mahanarva fimbriolata and Notozulia entreriana (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha). Genet Mol Biol 2010; 33:244-52. [PMID: 21637477 PMCID: PMC3036850 DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572010005000025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2009] [Accepted: 11/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Spittlebugs annually infest pastures and cause severe damage, representing a serious problem for the tropical American beef cattle industry. Spittlebugs are an important biotic constraint to forage production and there is a lack of cytogenetic data for this group of insects. For these reasons, we conducted this work, in which the spermatogenesis and nucleolar behavior of Deois flavopicta, Mahanarva fimbriolata and Notozulia entreriana were studied. The males possessed testes in the shape of a “bunch of grapes”; a variable number of testicular lobes per individual and polyploid nuclei composed of several heteropycnotic bodies. A heteropycnotic area was located in the periphery of the nucleus (prophase I); the chiasmata were terminal or interstitial; metaphases I were circular or linear and anaphase showed late migration of the sex chromosome. The chromosome complement had 2n = 19, except for N. entreriana (2n = 15); the spermatids were round with heteropycnotic material in the center and elongated with conspicuos chromatin. The analysis of testes after silver nitrate staining showed polyploid nuclei with three large and three smaller nucleolar bodies. Early prophase cells had an intensely stained nucleolar body located close to the chromatin and another less evident body located away from the chromatin. The nucleolar bodies disintegrated during diplotene. Silver staining occurred in two autosomes, in terminal and subterminal locations, the latter probably corresponding to the nucleolus organizer regions (NORs). The spermatids were round with a round nucleolar body and silver staining was observed in the medial and posterior region of the elongated part of the spermatid head.
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- Márcia Maria Urbanin Castanhole
- Laboratório de Citogenética e Molecular de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho', São José do Rio Preto, SP Brazil
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Dvorácková M, Rossignol P, Shaw PJ, Koroleva OA, Doonan JH, Fajkus J. AtTRB1, a telomeric DNA-binding protein from Arabidopsis, is concentrated in the nucleolus and shows highly dynamic association with chromatin. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2010; 61:637-49. [PMID: 19947985 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.04094.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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AtTRB1, 2 and 3 are members of the SMH (single Myb histone) protein family, which comprises double-stranded DNA-binding proteins that are specific to higher plants. They are structurally conserved, containing a Myb domain at the N-terminus, a central H1/H5-like domain and a C-terminally located coiled-coil domain. AtTRB1, 2 and 3 interact through their Myb domain specifically with telomeric double-stranded DNA in vitro, while the central H1/H5-like domain interacts non-specifically with DNA sequences and mediates protein-protein interactions. Here we show that AtTRB1, 2 and 3 preferentially localize to the nucleus and nucleolus during interphase. Both the central H1/H5-like domain and the Myb domain from AtTRB1 can direct a GFP fusion protein to the nucleus and nucleolus. AtTRB1-GFP localization is cell cycle-regulated, as the level of nuclear-associated GFP diminishes during mitotic entry and GFP progressively re-associates with chromatin during anaphase/telophase. Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching and fluorescence loss in photobleaching, we determined the dynamics of AtTRB1 interactions in vivo. The results reveal that AtTRB1 interaction with chromatin is regulated at two levels at least, one of which is coupled with cell-cycle progression, with the other involving rapid exchange.
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- Martina Dvorácková
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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Nayyar VK, Shire K, Frappier L. Mitotic chromosome interactions of Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) and human EBNA1-binding protein 2 (EBP2). J Cell Sci 2009; 122:4341-50. [PMID: 19887584 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.060913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) protein enables the stable persistence of Epstein-Barr virus episomal genomes during latent infection, in part by tethering the episomes to the cellular chromosomes in mitosis. A host nucleolar protein, EBNA1-binding protein 2 (EBP2), has been shown to be important for interactions between EBNA1 and chromosomes in metaphase and to associate with metaphase chromosomes. Here, we examine the timing of the chromosome associations of EBNA1 and EBP2 through mitosis and the regions of EBNA1 that mediate the chromosome interactions at each stage of mitosis. We show that EBP2 is localized to the nucleolus until late prophase, after which it relocalizes to the chromosome periphery, where it remains throughout telophase. EBNA1 is associated with chromosomes early in prophase through to telophase and partially colocalizes with chromosomal EBP2 in metaphase through to telophase. Using EBNA1 deletion mutants, the chromosome association of EBNA1 at each stage of mitosis was found to be mediated mainly by a central glycine-arginine region, and to a lesser degree by N-terminal sequences. These sequence requirements for chromosome interaction mirrored those for EBP2 binding. Our results suggest that interactions between EBNA1 and chromosomes involve at least two stages, and that the contribution of EBP2 to these interactions occurs in the second half of mitosis.
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- Vipra Kapur Nayyar
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A8
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Li N, Yuan K, Yan F, Huo Y, Zhu T, Liu X, Guo Z, Yao X. PinX1 is recruited to the mitotic chromosome periphery by Nucleolin and facilitates chromosome congression. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2009; 384:76-81. [PMID: 19393617 PMCID: PMC7983530 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.04.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2009] [Accepted: 04/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mitotic chromosome movements are orchestrated by interactions between spindle microtubules and chromosomes. It is well known that kinetochore is the major site where microtubule-chromosome attachment occurs. However, the functions of other domains of chromosome such as chromosome periphery have remained elusive. Our previous studies show that PinX1 distributes to chromosome periphery and kinetochore during mitosis, and harbors the microtubule binding activity. Here we report that PinX1 interacts with Nucleolin, a chromosome periphery protein, through its C-termini. Deconvolution microscopic analyses show PinX1 mainly co-localizes with Nucleolin at chromosome periphery in prometaphase. Moreover, depletion of Nucleolin abolishes chromosome periphery localizations of PinX1, suggesting a functional interrelationship between PinX1 and Nucleolin. Importantly, repression of PinX1 and Nucleolin abrogates chromosome segregation in real-time mitosis, validating the functional importance of PinX1-Nucleolin interaction. We propose PinX1 is recruited to chromosome periphery by Nucleolin and a complex of PinX1 and Nucleolin is essential for faithful chromosome congression.
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- Na Li
- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
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- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
- Department of Physiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
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- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
- Department of Physiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
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- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
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- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
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- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
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- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
- Department of Physiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
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- Anhui Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics and Chemical Biology and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Nanoscale, Hefei 230027, China
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Localization of Nopp140 within mammalian cells during interphase and mitosis. Histochem Cell Biol 2009; 132:129-40. [PMID: 19381672 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-009-0599-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/31/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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We investigated distribution of the nucleolar phosphoprotein Nopp140 within mammalian cells, using immunofluorescence confocal microscopy and immunoelectron microscopy. During interphase, three-dimensional image reconstructions of confocal sections revealed that nucleolar labelling appeared as several tiny spheres organized in necklaces. Moreover, after an immunogold labelling procedure, gold particles were detected not only over the dense fibrillar component but also over the fibrillar centres of nucleoli in untreated and actinomycin D-treated cells. Labelling was also consistently present in Cajal bodies. After pulse-chase experiments with BrUTP, colocalization was more prominent after a 10- to 15-min chase than after a 5-min chase. During mitosis, confocal analysis indicated that Nopp140 organization was lost. The protein dispersed between and around the chromosomes in prophase. From prometaphase to telophase, it was also detected in numerous cytoplasmic nucleolus-derived foci. During telophase, it reappeared in the reforming nucleoli of daughter nuclei. This strongly suggests that Nopp140 could be a component implicated in the early steps of pre-rRNA processing.
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Morielle-Souza A, de Azeredo-Oliveira MTV. Study of the nucleolar cycle and ribosomal RNA distribution during meiosis in triatomines (Triatominae, Heteroptera). Micron 2008; 39:1020-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2007.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2007] [Revised: 09/06/2007] [Accepted: 09/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Rubtsov NB, Karamisheva TV, Minina YM, Zhdanova NS. Three-dimensional organization of interphase fibroblast nuclei in two closely related shrew species (Sorex granarius and Sorex araneus) differing in the structures of their chromosome termini. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990519x08030024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Zharskaya OO, Barsukova AS, Zatsepina OV. Effect of roscovitine, a selective cyclin B-dependent kinase 1 inhibitor, on assembly of the nucleolus in mitosis. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2008; 73:411-9. [PMID: 18457570 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297908040056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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It is well known that at the beginning of mitosis the nucleolus disassembles but then reassembles at the end of mitosis. However, the mechanisms of these processes are still unclear. In the present work, we show for the first time that selective inhibition of cyclin B-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1) by roscovitine induces premature assembly of the nucleolus in mammalian cells in metaphase. Treatment of metaphase cells with roscovitine induces formation of structures in their cytoplasm that contain major proteins of the mature nucleolus participating in rRNA processing, such as B23/nucleophosmin, C23/nucleolin, fibrillarin, Nop52, as well as partially processed (immature) 46-45S pre-rRNA. This effect is reproducible in cells of various types; this indicates that general mechanisms regulate early stages of the nucleolus reassembly with CDK1 participation in mammalian cells. Based on our and literature data, we suggest that inactivation of the CDK1-cyclin B complex at the end of mitosis results in dephosphorylation of B23/nucleophosmin and C23/nucleolin; this facilitates their interaction with pre-rRNA and leads to formation of insoluble supramolecular complexes--nucleolus-derived foci.
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- O O Zharskaya
- Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia
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Svarcova O, Strejcek F, Petrovicova I, Avery B, Pedersen H, Lucas-Hahn A, Niemann H, Laurincik J, Maddox-Hyttel P. The role of RNA polymerase I transcription and embryonic genome activation in nucleolar development in bovine preimplantation embryos. Mol Reprod Dev 2008; 75:1095-103. [DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Caperta AD, Neves N, Viegas W, Pikaard CS, Preuss S. Relationships between transcription, silver staining, and chromatin organization of nucleolar organizers in Secale cereale. PROTOPLASMA 2007; 232:55-59. [PMID: 18157499 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-007-0277-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2007] [Accepted: 05/23/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) are composed of hundreds of rRNA genes, typically spanning several megabases. Cytologically, NORs include regions that are highly condensed and regions that are decondensed, the latter corresponding to regions at which associated proteins stain intensively with silver (Ag-NORs) and where active rRNA gene transcription is thought to occur. To test the relationship between rRNA gene activity, NOR silver staining, and rDNA (genes coding for rRNA) chromatin condensation, we used the DNA methyl-transferase inhibitor 5-azacytidine to evaluate the correlation between the epigenetic regulation of rRNA genes and NOR silver staining in the plant Secale cereale. Following 5-azacytidine treatment, we observed an increase in rRNA gene transcription as well as a reduction in the number of cells showing a significant difference in the size of the silver-stained domains in the two NORs. These transcriptional changes occurred concomitantly with an increase in nuclear and nucleolar size and were associated with the reallocation of most of the rDNA from perinucleolar heterochromatin into the nucleolus. Collectively, these results suggest that rRNA gene transcription, silver staining, and NOR decondensation are interrelated in S. cereale.
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- Ana D Caperta
- Centro Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisboa.
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Ma N, Matsunaga S, Takata H, Ono-Maniwa R, Uchiyama S, Fukui K. Nucleolin functions in nucleolus formation and chromosome congression. J Cell Sci 2007; 120:2091-105. [PMID: 17535846 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.008771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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A complex structure, designated the chromosome periphery, surrounds each chromosome during mitosis. Although several proteins have been shown to localize to the chromosome periphery, their functions during mitosis remain unclear. Here, we used a combination of high-resolution microscopy and RNA-interference-mediated depletion to study the functions of nucleolin, a nucleolar protein localized at the chromosome periphery, in interphase and mitosis. During mitosis, nucleolin was localized in the peripheral region including the vicinity of the outer kinetochore of chromosomes. Staining with an antibody specific for nucleolin phosphorylated by CDC2 revealed that nucleolin was also associated with the spindle poles from prometaphase to anaphase. Nucleolin depletion resulted in disorganization of the nucleoli at interphase. Furthermore, nucleolin-depleted cells showed a prolonged cell cycle with misaligned chromosomes and defects in spindle organization. The misaligned chromosomes showed syntelic kinetochore-microtubule attachments with reduced centromere stretching. Taken together, our results indicate that nucleolin is required for nucleolus formation, and is also involved in chromosome congression and spindle formation.
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- Nan Ma
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, Japan
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Negi SS, Olson MOJ. Effects of interphase and mitotic phosphorylation on the mobility and location of nucleolar protein B23. J Cell Sci 2006; 119:3676-85. [PMID: 16912078 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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B23 (or nucleophosmin, NPM) is a multifunctional protein involved in ribosome biogenesis, control of centrosome duplication and in sensing cellular stress. It is phosphorylated during interphase by casein kinase 2 (CK2) and during mitosis by cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK). In this study we have addressed the role of these phosphorylation events in the dynamics and location of protein B23. Mutation of the CK2 phosphorylation site to alanine results in slower recovery of the mutant compared with the wild-type protein as measured by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP). Immunofluorescence studies using an antibody against phosphorylated Thr199 revealed that B23 is phosphorylated at this CDK1 site at the start of mitosis and is dephosphorylated during anaphase. The CDK1-type phosphorylation sites are in the nucleic acid binding region of B23 and may contribute to its dissociation from the nucleolus during mitosis. A Thr to Glu mutant of the CDK1-type sites as well as other members of the nucleoplasmin family that lack the C-terminal nucleic-acid-binding region showed a greater mobility and/or faster recovery than wild-type B23.1, the longer variant. These results provide evidence that phosphorylation at these sites reduces the affinity of B23 for nucleolar components and might be a factor in regulating its location during the cell cycle.
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- Sandeep S Negi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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McCain J, Danzy L, Hamdi A, Dellafosse O, DiMario P. Tracking nucleolar dynamics with GFP-Nopp140 during Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis. Cell Tissue Res 2005; 323:105-15. [PMID: 16158326 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-0044-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2005] [Accepted: 06/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We expressed two green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged Nopp140 isoforms in transgenic Drosophila melanogaster to study nucleolar dynamics during oogenesis and early embryogenesis. Specifically, we wanted to test whether the quiescent oocyte nucleus stored maternal Nopp140 and then to determine precisely when nucleoli formed during embryogenesis. During oogenesis nurse cell nucleoli accumulated GFP-Nopp140 gradually such that posterior nurse cell nucleoli in egg chambers at stage 10 were usually brighter than the more anterior nurse cell nucleoli. Nucleoli within apoptotic nurse cells disassembled in stages 12 and 13, but not all GFP-Nopp140 entered the oocyte through inter-connecting cytoplasmic bridges. Oocytes, on the other hand, lost their nucleoli by stage 3, but GFP-Nopp140 gradually accumulated in oocyte nuclei during stages 8-13. Most oocyte nuclei at stage 10 stored GFP-Nopp140 uniformly, but many stage 10 oocytes accumulated GFP-Nopp140 in presumed endobodies or in multiple smaller spheres. All oocyte nuclei at stages 11-12 were uniformly labeled, and GFP-Nopp140 diffused to the cytoplasm upon nuclear disassembly in stage 13. GFP-Nopp140 reappeared during embryogenesis; initial nucleologenesis occurred in peripheral somatic nuclei during embryonic stage 13, one stage earlier than reported previously. These GFP-Nopp140-containing foci disassembled at the 13th syncytial mitosis, and a second nucleologenesis occurred in early stage 14. The resulting nucleoli occupied nuclear regions closest to the periphery of the embryos. Pole cells contained GFP-Nopp140 during the syncytial embryonic stages, but their nucleologenesis started at gastrulation.
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- Jennifer McCain
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 202 Life Sciences Building, Baton Rouge, 70803-1715, USA
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Saiwaki T, Kotera I, Sasaki M, Takagi M, Yoneda Y. In vivo dynamics and kinetics of pKi-67: transition from a mobile to an immobile form at the onset of anaphase. Exp Cell Res 2005; 308:123-34. [PMID: 15896774 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2005.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2004] [Revised: 04/02/2005] [Accepted: 04/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A cell proliferation marker protein, pKi-67, distributes to the chromosome periphery during mitosis and nucleolar heterochromatin in the interphase. We report here on the structural domains of pKi-67 that are required for its correct distribution. While both the LR domain and the conserved domain were involved in localization to the nucleolar heterochromatin, both the LR domain and the Ki-67 repeat domain were required for its distribution to the mitotic chromosome periphery. Using in vivo time-lapse microscopy, GFP-pKi-67 was dynamically tracked from the mitotic chromosome periphery to reforming nucleoli via prenucleolar bodies (PNBs). The signals in PNBs then moved towards and fused into the reforming nucleoli with a thin string-like fluorescence during early G1 phase. An analysis of the in vivo kinetics of pKi-67 using photobleaching indicated that the association of pKi-67 with chromatin was progressively altered from "loose" to "tight" after the onset of anaphase. These findings indicate that pKi-67 dynamically alters the nature of the interaction with chromatin structure during the cell cycle, which is closely related to the reformation process of the interphase nucleolar chromatin.
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- Takuya Saiwaki
- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Lorenzen JA, Bonacci BB, Palmer RE, Wells C, Zhang J, Haber DA, Goldstein AM, Mayer AN. Rbm19 is a nucleolar protein expressed in crypt/progenitor cells of the intestinal epithelium. Gene Expr Patterns 2005; 6:45-56. [PMID: 16027046 DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2005.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2005] [Revised: 05/10/2005] [Accepted: 05/11/2005] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Intestinal development and homeostasis rely on the coordination of proliferation and differentiation of the epithelium. To better understand this process, we are studying Rbm19, a gene expressed in the gut epithelium that is essential for intestinal morphogenesis and differentiation in the zebrafish (Development 130, 3917). Here we analyzed the expression of Rbm19 in several biological contexts that feature proliferation/differentiation cell fate decisions. In the undifferentiated embryonic gut tube, Rbm19 is expressed throughout the epithelium, but then becomes localized to the crypts of Lieberkühn of the adult intestine. Consistent with its expression in adult crypt/progenitor cells, expression is widespread in human colorectal carcinomas and dividing Caco-2 cells. Its expression in Caco-2 cells recapitulates the in vivo pattern, declining when the cells undergo confluence-induced arrest and differentiation. Rbm19 protein localizes to the nucleolus during interphase and to the perichromosomal sheath during mitosis, in accordance with the pattern described for other nucleolar proteins implicated in ribosome biogenesis. Interestingly, the loss of nucleolar rbm19, nucleolin/C23, and nucleophosmin/B23 in confluent Caco-2 cells did not signify loss of nucleoli as detected by electron microscopy. Taken together, these data point to the nucleolus as a possible locus for regulating the proliferation/differentiation cell fate decision in the intestinal epithelium.
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- James A Lorenzen
- Gastroenterology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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Kapoor P, Lavoie BD, Frappier L. EBP2 plays a key role in Epstein-Barr virus mitotic segregation and is regulated by aurora family kinases. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:4934-45. [PMID: 15923612 PMCID: PMC1140579 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.12.4934-4945.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2005] [Revised: 03/26/2005] [Accepted: 03/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genomes persist indefinitely in latently infected human cells, in part due to their ability to stably segregate during cell division. This process is mediated by the viral EBNA1 protein, which tethers the viral episomes to the cellular mitotic chromosomes. We have previously identified a mitotic chromosomal protein, human EBNA1 binding protein 2 (hEBP2), which binds to EBNA1 and enables EBNA1 to partition EBV-based plasmids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using an RNA silencing approach, we show that hEBP2 is essential for the proliferation of human cells and that repression of hEBP2 severely decreases the ability of EBNA1 and EBV-based plasmids to bind mitotic chromosomes. When expressed in yeast, hEBP2 undergoes the same cell cycle-regulated association with the mitotic chromatin as in human cells, and using yeast temperature-sensitive mutant strains, we found that the attachment of hEBP2 to mitotic chromosomes was dependent on the Ipl1 kinase. Both RNA silencing of the Ipl1 orthologue in human cells (Aurora B) and specific inhibition of the Aurora B kinase activity with a small molecule confirmed a role for this kinase in enabling hEBP2 binding to human mitotic chromosomes, suggesting that this kinase can regulate EBV segregation.
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- Priya Kapoor
- Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, 1 Kings College Circle, Toronto M5S 1A8, Canada
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Maddox-Hyttel P, Bjerregaard B, Laurincik J. Meiosis and embryo technology: renaissance of the nucleolus. Reprod Fertil Dev 2005; 17:3-14. [PMID: 15745627 DOI: 10.1071/rd04108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2004] [Accepted: 10/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The nucleolus is the site of rRNA and ribosome production. This organelle presents an active fibrillogranular ultrastructure in the oocyte during the growth of the gamete but, at the end of the growth phase, the nucleolus is transformed into an inactive remnant that is dissolved when meiosis is resumed at germinal vesicle breakdown. Upon meiosis, structures resembling the nucleolar remnant, now referred to as nucleolus precursor bodies (NPBs), are established in the pronuclei. These entities harbour the development of fibrillogranular nucleoli and re-establishment of nucleolar function in conjunction with the major activation of the embryonic genome. This so-called nucleologenesis occurs at a species-specific time of development and can be classified into two different models: one where nucleolus development occurs inside the NPBs (e.g. cattle) and one where the nucleolus is formed on the surface of the NPBs (e.g. pigs). A panel of nucleolar proteins with functions during rDNA transcription (topoisomerase I, RNA polymerase I and upstream binding factor) and early (fibrillarin) or late rRNA processing (nucleolin and nucleophosmin) are localised to specific compartments of the oocyte nucleolus and those engaged in late processing are, to some degree, re-used for nucleologenesis in the embryo, whereas the others require de novo embryonic transcription in order to be allocated to the developing nucleolus. In the oocyte, inactivation of the nucleolus coincides with the acquisition of full meiotic competence, a parameter that may be of importance in relation to in vitro oocyte maturation. In embryo, nucleologenesis may be affected by technological manipulations: in vitro embryo production apparently has no impact on this process in cattle, whereas in the pig this technology results in impaired nucleologenesis. In cattle, reconstruction of embryos by nuclear transfer results in profound disturbances in nucleologenesis. In conclusion, the nucleolus is an organelle of great importance for the developmental competence of oocytes and embryos and may serve as a morphological marker for the completion of oocyte growth and normality of activation of the embryonic genome.
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- Poul Maddox-Hyttel
- Department of Animal and Veterinary Basic Sciences, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Groennegaardsvej 7, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Bubulya PA, Prasanth KV, Deerinck TJ, Gerlich D, Beaudouin J, Ellisman MH, Ellenberg J, Spector DL. Hypophosphorylated SR splicing factors transiently localize around active nucleolar organizing regions in telophase daughter nuclei. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 167:51-63. [PMID: 15479736 PMCID: PMC2172523 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200404120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Upon completion of mitosis, daughter nuclei assemble all of the organelles necessary for the implementation of nuclear functions. We found that upon entry into daughter nuclei, snRNPs and SR proteins do not immediately colocalize in nuclear speckles. SR proteins accumulated in patches around active nucleolar organizing regions (NORs) that we refer to as NOR-associated patches (NAPs), whereas snRNPs were enriched at other nuclear regions. NAPs formed transiently, persisting for 15–20 min before dissipating as nuclear speckles began to form in G1. In the absence of RNA polymerase II transcription, NAPs increased in size and persisted for at least 2 h, with delayed localization of SR proteins to nuclear speckles. In addition, SR proteins in NAPs are hypophosphorylated, and the SR protein kinase Clk/STY colocalizes with SR proteins in NAPs, suggesting that phosphorylation releases SR proteins from NAPs and their initial target is transcription sites. This work demonstrates a previously unrecognized role of NAPs in splicing factor trafficking and nuclear speckle biogenesis.
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- Paula A Bubulya
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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Dimario PJ. Cell and Molecular Biology of Nucleolar Assembly and Disassembly. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2004; 239:99-178. [PMID: 15464853 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(04)39003-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Nucleoli disassemble in prophase of the metazoan mitotic cycle, and they begin their reassembly (nucleologenesis) in late anaphase?early telophase. Nucleolar disassembly and reassembly were obvious to the early cytologists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and although this has lead to a plethora of literature describing these events, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms regulating nucleolar assembly and disassembly has expanded immensely just within the last 10-15 years. We briefly survey the findings of nineteenth-century cytologists on nucleolar assembly and disassembly, followed by the work of Heitz and McClintock on nucleolar organizers. A primer review of nucleolar structure and functions precedes detailed descriptions of modern molecular and microscopic studies of nucleolar assembly and disassembly. Nucleologenesis is concurrent with the reinitiation of rDNA transcription in telophase. The perichromosomal sheath, prenucleolar bodies, and nucleolar-derived foci serve as repositories for nucleolar processing components used in the previous interphase. Disassembly of the perichromosomal sheath along with the dynamic movements and compositional changes of the prenucleolar bodies and nucleolus-derived foci coincide with reactivation of rDNA synthesis within the chromosomal nucleolar organizers during telophase. Nucleologenesis is considered in various model organisms to provide breadth to our understanding. Nucleolar disassembly occurs at the onset of mitosis primarily as a result of the mitosis-specific phosphorylation of Pol I transcription factors and processing components. Although we have learned much regarding nucleolar assembly and disassembly, many questions still remain, and these questions are as vibrant for us today as early questions were for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cytologists.
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- Patrick J Dimario
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1715, USA
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Zatsepina O, Baly C, Chebrout M, Debey P. The step-wise assembly of a functional nucleolus in preimplantation mouse embryos involves the cajal (coiled) body. Dev Biol 2003; 253:66-83. [PMID: 12490198 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2002.0865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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After fertilization, ribosomal RNA synthesis is silenced during a period which depends on the species. Data concerning the reassembly of a functional nucleolus remain scarce. We have examined by immunocytochemistry, Western blots, and BrUTP microinjection the dynamics of major nucleolar proteins during the first cycles of mouse embryogenesis, in relation to rDNA transcription sites and coilin, a marker of Cajal bodies. We show that: (1) the reinitiation of rDNA transcription occurs at the two-cell stage, 44-45 h after hCG injection (hphCG), at the surface of the nucleolar precursor bodies (NPBs), where the RNA polymerase I (pol I) transcription complex is recruited 4-5 h before; (2) the NPBs are not equal in their ability to support recruitment of pol I and rDNA transcription; (3) maternally inherited fibrillarin undergoes a dynamic redistribution during the second cell stage, together with coilin, leading to the assembly of the Cajal body around 40 hphCG; and (4) the pol I complex is first recruited to the Cajal body before reaching its rDNA template. We also find that fibrillarin and B23 are both directly assembled around NPBs prior to ongoing pre-rRNA synthesis. Altogether, our results reveal a role of the Cajal bodies in the building of a functional nucleolus.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Nucleolus
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics
- Coiled Bodies
- DNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- Embryo, Mammalian/metabolism
- Embryo, Mammalian/ultrastructure
- Embryonic Development
- Female
- Genomic Imprinting
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Nuclear Proteins/chemistry
- Nuclear Proteins/genetics
- Pregnancy
- RNA Polymerase I/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal/biosynthesis
- Transcription, Genetic
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- Olga Zatsepina
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119992, Moscow, Russia
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Lerch-Gaggl A, Haque J, Li J, Ning G, Traktman P, Duncan SA. Pescadillo is essential for nucleolar assembly, ribosome biogenesis, and mammalian cell proliferation. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:45347-55. [PMID: 12237316 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m208338200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Mutation of the zebrafish pescadillo gene blocks expansion of a number of tissues in the developing embryo, suggesting roles for its gene product in controlling cell proliferation. We report that levels of the pescadillo protein increase in rodent hepatocytes as they enter the cell cycle. Pescadillo protein localizes to distinct substructures of the interphase nucleus including nucleoli, the site of ribosome biogenesis. During mitosis pescadillo closely associates with the periphery of metaphase chromosomes and by late anaphase is associated with nucleolus-derived foci and prenucleolar bodies. Blastomeres in mouse embryos lacking pescadillo arrest at morula stages of development, the nucleoli fail to differentiate and accumulation of ribosomes is inhibited. We propose that in mammalian cells pescadillo is essential for ribosome biogenesis and nucleologenesis and that disruption to its function results in cell cycle arrest.
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- Alexandra Lerch-Gaggl
- Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
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Gao S, Scott RE. P2P-R protein overexpression restricts mitotic progression at prometaphase and promotes mitotic apoptosis. J Cell Physiol 2002; 193:199-207. [PMID: 12384997 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.10163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mitotic cells show a tenfold increase in immunoreactive P2P-R protein. During mitosis, the distribution of P2P-R protein also changes from a primary nucleolar localization in interphase cells to the periphery of chromosome in mitotic cells. These findings suggest that P2P-R might serve a functional role in mitosis. To test this possibility, human Saos2 cells were stably transfected with P2P-R DNA constructs and the biological effects of P2P-R overexpression were evaluated. Overexpression of near full-length P2P-R was found to have paradoxical effects on the relationship between proliferation and mitosis in the nine Saos2 cell clones that were studied. A significant repression in the population doubling rates was observed in all nine clones even though a significant increase in the frequency of easily detached cells with a mitotic morphology was apparent. Flow cytometric analysis confirmed that greater than two thirds of the cells with a mitotic morphology had a 4n DNA content. Confocal microscopy further established that 85% of the mitotic cell population had prometaphase characteristics suggesting that P2P-R overexpression restricts mitotic progression at prometaphase. Many cells with a mitotic morphology also showed signs of apoptosis with prominent cell surface blebs. Confocal microscopy confirmed that 25-40% of such mitotic cells were apoptotic with chromosomal abnormalities and cell surface blebbing. In association with mitotic apoptosis, P2P-R protein appears to dissociate from the periphery of chromosomes and localize in the cytoplasm and in cell surface blebs. The presence of P2P-R in cell surface blebs was confirmed by analysis of highly enriched populations of apoptotic cell surface blebs wherein Western blotting documented the presence of 250 kDa P2P-R. These results therefore suggest that P2P-R overexpression promotes both prometaphase arrest in mitosis and mitotic apoptosis.
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- Sizhi Gao
- Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis TN 38163, Tennessee, USA
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Björk P, Baurén G, Jin S, Tong YG, Bürglin TR, Hellman U, Wieslander L. A novel conserved RNA-binding domain protein, RBD-1, is essential for ribosome biogenesis. Mol Biol Cell 2002; 13:3683-95. [PMID: 12388766 PMCID: PMC129975 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-03-0138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2002] [Revised: 06/18/2002] [Accepted: 07/22/2002] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Synthesis of the ribosomal subunits from pre-rRNA requires a large number of trans-acting proteins and small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein particles to execute base modifications, RNA cleavages, and structural rearrangements. We have characterized a novel protein, RNA-binding domain-1 (RBD-1), that is involved in ribosome biogenesis. This protein contains six consensus RNA-binding domains and is conserved as to sequence, domain organization, and cellular location from yeast to human. RBD-1 is essential in Caenorhabditis elegans. In the dipteran Chironomus tentans, RBD-1 (Ct-RBD-1) binds pre-rRNA in vitro and anti-Ct-RBD-1 antibodies repress pre-rRNA processing in vivo. Ct-RBD-1 is mainly located in the nucleolus in an RNA polymerase I transcription-dependent manner, but it is also present in discrete foci in the interchromatin and in the cytoplasm. In cytoplasmic extracts, 20-30% of Ct-RBD-1 is associated with ribosomes and, preferentially, with the 40S ribosomal subunit. Our data suggest that RBD-1 plays a role in structurally coordinating pre-rRNA during ribosome biogenesis and that this function is conserved in all eukaryotes.
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- Petra Björk
- Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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The nucleolus is a large nuclear domain and the site of ribosome biogenesis. It is also at the parting of the ways of several cellular processes, including cell cycle progression, gene silencing, and ribonucleoprotein complex formation. Consequently, a functional nucleolus is crucial for cell survival. Recent investigations of nucleolar assembly during the cell cycle and during embryogenesis have provided an integrated view of the dynamics of this process. Moreover, they have generated new ideas about cell cycle control of nucleolar assembly, the dynamics of the delivery of the RNA processing machinery, the formation of prenucleolar bodies, the role of precursor ribosomal RNAs in stabilizing the nucleolar machinery and the fact that nucleolar assembly is completed by cooperative interactions between chromosome territories. This has opened a new area of research into the dynamics of nuclear organization and the integration of nuclear functions.
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- Danièle Hernandez-Verdun
- CNRS, Université Paris VI, Université Paris VII, Institut Jacques Monod, 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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Gao S, Witte MM, Scott RE. P2P-R protein localizes to the nucleolus of interphase cells and the periphery of chromosomes in mitotic cells which show maximum P2P-R immunoreactivity. J Cell Physiol 2002; 191:145-54. [PMID: 12064457 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.10084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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P2P-R is a nuclear protein that can bind both p53 and Rb1. Its functions include roles in the control of RNA metabolism, apoptosis, and p53-dependent transcription. The expression of P2P-R also is repressed in G1 arrested terminally differentiated cells. The current studies therefore evaluated if P2P-R undergoes cell cycle-associated changes in its abundance and/or localization. Western blots show that relative to G0 quiescent cells, P2P-R protein levels are higher in populations of G2/M cells prepared by the physiological parasynchronization technique of serum deprivation followed by serum stimulation. More striking is the > 10-fold enrichment of P2P-R protein in specimens of highly purified mitotic cells prepared by the mitotic shake-select technique, or by synchrony with the mitotic spindle disruption agents nocodazole or vinblastine. These changes in P2P-R protein occur without a concomitant change in P2P-R mRNA expression suggesting that P2P-R immunoreactivity increases during mitosis. Confocal microscopy next established the localization of P2P-R to nucleoli in interphase cells and at the periphery of chromosomes in mitotic cells that lack nucleoli. The high levels of P2P-R localized to the periphery of chromosomes in mitotic cells suggest that P2P-R shares characteristics with other nucleolar proteins that associate with the periphery of chromosomes during mitosis. These include: nucleolin, B23, Ki67, and fibrillarin.
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- Sizhi Gao
- Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis 38163, USA
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Utama B, Kennedy D, Ru K, Mattick JS. Isolation and characterization of a new nucleolar protein, Nrap, that is conserved from yeast to humans. Genes Cells 2002; 7:115-32. [PMID: 11895476 DOI: 10.1046/j.1356-9597.2001.00507.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The nucleolus is the site of rRNA synthesis and processing in eukaryotic cells, but its composition remains poorly understood. RESULTS We have identified a novel nucleolar RNA-associated protein (Nrap) which is highly conserved from yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to human, with homologues in mouse, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Arabidopsis thaliana, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and other species. In the mouse, we have found that Nrap is ubiquitously expressed and is specifically localized in the nucleolus. We have also identified splice variants in human and mouse, and defined the intron-exon structure of the human Nrap gene. Nrap is inherited into daughter nuclei by associating with the condensed chromosomes during mitosis. RNase treatment of permeabilized cells indicated that the nucleolar localization of Nrap is RNA dependent. The effects of actinomycin D, cycloheximide and 5,6-dichloro-beta-d-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole on Nrap expression and distribution in cultured cells suggest that Nrap is associated with the pre-rRNA transcript. CONCLUSIONS Nrap is a large nucleolar protein (of more than 1000 amino acids), and is a new class of protein with new structural and functional motifs. Nrap appears to be associated with ribosome biogenesis by interacting with pre-rRNA primary transcript.
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- Budi Utama
- Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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Baran V, Vignon X, LeBourhis D, Renard JP, Fléchon JE. Nucleolar changes in bovine nucleotransferred embryos. Biol Reprod 2002; 66:534-43. [PMID: 11804972 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.2.534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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This study focused on nucleolar changes in bovine embryos reconstructed from enucleated mature oocytes fused with blastomeres of morulae or with cultured, serum unstarved bovine fetal skin fibroblasts (embryonic vs. somatic cloning). The nucleotransferred (NT) embryos were collected and fixed at time intervals of 1-2 h (early 1-cell stage), 10-15 h (late 1-cell stage), 22-24 h (2-cell stage), 37-38 h (4-cell stage), 40-41 h (early 8-cell stage), 47-48 h (late 8-cell stage), and 55 h (16-cell stage) after fusion. Immunocytochemistry by light and electron microscopy was used for structure-function characterization of nucleolar components. Antibodies against RNA, protein B23, protein C23, and fibrillarin were applied. In addition, DNA was localized by the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) technique, and the functional organization of chromatin was determined with the nick-translation immunogold approach. The results show that fully reticulated (active) nucleoli observed in donor cells immediately before fusion as well as in the early 1-cell stage after fusion were progressively transformed into nucleolar bodies displaying decreasing numbers of vacuoles from the 2- to 4-cell stage in both types of reconstructed embryos. At the late 8-cell stage, morphological signs of resuming nucleolar activity were detected. Numerous new small vacuoles appeared, and chromatin blocks reassociated with the nucleolar body. During this period, nick-translation technique revealed numerous active DNA sites in the periphery of chromatin blocks associated with the nucleolar body. Fully reticulated nucleoli were again observed as early as the 16-cell stage of embryonic cloned embryos. In comparison, the embryos obtained by fetal cloning displayed a lower tendency to develop, mainly during the first cell cycle and during the period of presumed reactivation. Correlatively, the changes in nucleolar morphology (desegregation and rebuilding) were at least delayed in many somatic NT embryos in comparison with the embryonic NT group. It is concluded that complete reprogramming of rRNA gene expression is part of the general nuclear reprogramming necessary for development after NT.
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- V Baran
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Biologie du Développement et Biotechnologies, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Olson MOJ, Hingorani K, Szebeni A. Conventional and nonconventional roles of the nucleolus. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2002; 219:199-266. [PMID: 12211630 PMCID: PMC7133188 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(02)19014-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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As the most prominent of subnuclear structures, the nucleolus has a well-established role in ribosomal subunit assembly. Additional nucleolar functions, not related to ribosome biogenesis, have been discovered within the last decade. Built around multiple copies of the genes for preribosomal RNA (rDNA), nucleolar structure is largely dependent on the process of ribosome assembly. The nucleolus is disassembled during mitosis at which time preribosomal RNA transcription and processing are suppressed; it is reassembled at the end of mitosis in part from components preserved from the previous cell cycle. Expression of preribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) is regulated by the silencing of individual rDNA genes via alterations in chromatin structure or by controlling RNA polymerase I initiation complex formation. Preribosomal RNA processing and posttranscriptional modifications are guided by a multitude of small nucleolar RNAs. Nearly completed ribosomal subunits are exported to the cytoplasm by an established nuclear export system with the aid of specialized adapter molecules. Some preribosomal and nucleolar components are transiently localized in Cajal bodies, presumably for modification or assembly. The nonconventional functions of nucleolus include roles in viral infections, nuclear export, sequestration of regulatory molecules, modification of small RNAs, RNP assembly, and control of aging, although some of these functions are not well established. Additional progress in defining the mechanisms of each step in ribosome biogenesis as well as clarification of the precise role of the nucleolus in nonconventional activities is expected in the next decade.
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- Mark O J Olson
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216, USA
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Schickling O, Stegh AH, Byrd J, Peter ME. Nuclear localization of DEDD leads to caspase-6 activation through its death effector domain and inhibition of RNA polymerase I dependent transcription. Cell Death Differ 2001; 8:1157-68. [PMID: 11753564 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2001] [Revised: 07/03/2001] [Accepted: 07/04/2001] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The death effector domain (DED) is a protein/protein interaction domain only found in proteins that are involved in apoptosis signaling. DEDD is a novel apoptosis signaling molecule that carries an N-terminal DED with complete sequence identity between the murine, rat, bovine and human domains. We previously identified two nuclear localization signals (NLS) responsible for DEDDs nuclear localization when transiently expressed. Using a new anti-DEDD antibody that allows us to stain endogenous DEDD in immunofluorescence microscopy we now detect a significant amount of DEDD in nucleoli of all cells tested. When overexpressed, DEDD localizes to nucleoli-like structures, activates caspase-6 and specifically inhibits RNA polymerase I (Pol I) dependent transcription in vivo as shown by blockage of BrUTP incorporation. The DED in DEDD is sufficient for its DNA binding, caspase-6 activating and Pol I specific transcriptional repressor activity. We have identified a third NLS in DEDD and only mutation of all three NLS generated a protein, DEDD Delta NLS1-3, that mainly localized to the cytoplasm. This protein no longer induced apoptosis, indicating that in contrast to other DED proteins, such as FADD, caspase-8 or c-FLIP, DEDD induces apoptosis from within the nucleus. This effect is abolished when specific point mutations are made within the DED. The DED in DEDD therefore represents a novel domain that is structurally similar to other DEDs but functionally different from classical DEDs found in FADD or caspase-8.
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- O Schickling
- The Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, 924 E 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois, IL 60637, USA
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Verheggen C, Le Panse S, Almouzni G, Hernandez-Verdun D. Maintenance of nucleolar machineries and pre-rRNAs in remnant nucleolus of erythrocyte nuclei and remodeling in Xenopus egg extracts. Exp Cell Res 2001; 269:23-34. [PMID: 11525636 DOI: 10.1006/excr.2001.5304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The nuclear functions in erythrocytes are almost completely extinct. There is no RNA polymerase I transcription, although a remnant nucleolar structure is still present. The remnant nucleolus of Xenopus laevis erythrocytes maintains a morphologically organized structure, nearly exclusively fibrillar. In this inactive nucleolar remnant, we revealed the presence of a modified form of transcription factor UBF. Several proteins of the processing machinery such as fibrillarin, nucleolin and B23/NO38, snoRNAs U3 and U8, and partially processed preribosomal RNAs colocalized in these remnant structures. Attempts to reprogram these erythrocyte nuclei in Xenopus egg extract showed that import of several nucleolar proteins was induced while the nucleolar remnant was disorganized. UBF became abundant and showed a necklace-like distribution on the decondensed ribosomal genes. Fibrillarin, nucleolin, and snoRNAs U3 and U8, also largely imported from the extract, were associated in large prenuclear bodies scattered in the nucleoplasm. B23/NO38 was present in different small bodies formed only in the most decondensed nuclei. In these remodeled erythrocyte nuclei, there was no imported preribosomal RNA and the initial presence of a residual nucleolar structure containing several partners of ribosome biogenesis was not sufficient to promote reassembly of newly imported nucleolar machineries. These nuclei, which reproduce the early events of nucleogenesis are also transcriptionally silent and thus compare to the early embryonic nuclei of Xenopus laevis.
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- C Verheggen
- Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592, Paris, France
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Dranovsky A, Vincent I, Gregori L, Schwarzman A, Colflesh D, Enghild J, Strittmatter W, Davies P, Goldgaber D. Cdc2 phosphorylation of nucleolin demarcates mitotic stages and Alzheimer's disease pathology. Neurobiol Aging 2001; 22:517-28. [PMID: 11445251 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-4580(00)00248-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Nucleolin is a major multifunctional nuclear phosphoprotein that is phosphorylated by Cdc2 kinase in mitosis and that participates in a number of cellular processes. The monoclonal antibody TG-3 generated against neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) found in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is highly specific for mitotic cells in culture. We here demonstrate that phosphorylation of nucleolin by Cdc2 kinase generates the TG-3 epitope. The unique pool of TG-3 immunoreactive nucleolin appears abruptly during the prophase. It is associated with chromosomes through the metaphase and it gradually disappears during separation of chromosomes and exit from mitosis. In the brain, nucleolin was localized not only to nuclei but also to neuronal cytoplasm, and it is a marker for early NFT. In patients with AD, Cdc2 phosphorylated nucleolin was present in NFT. These findings suggest that phosphorylation of nucleolin by Cdc2 kinase is a critical event and the point of convergence of two distinct pathways, mitosis and neurodegeneration.
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- A Dranovsky
- Medical Scientist Training Program, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Baran V, Brochard V, Renard JP, Flechon JE. Nopp 140 involvement in nucleologenesis of mouse preimplantation embryos. Mol Reprod Dev 2001; 59:277-84. [PMID: 11424213 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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As it was shown earlier, resumption of rRNA transcription in early mouse embryo is localized in the peripheral region of nucleolus precursor body/NPB/during the two-cell stage. Recently, nucleolar phosphoprotein Nopp140 was presented to shuttle between the nucleolus and cytoplasm as chaperone of snoRNPs. Nopp140 interacts with RNA polymerase I in nucleolus and also accumulates in CBs, suggesting a pathway between the two organelles. The aim of the study was to describe the changing location of Nopp140 during the first cleavage stages of mouse embryos and its re-location after inhibition of rRNA synthesis with actinomycin D. Light microscope immunocytochemical staining showed Nopp140 in the periphery of NPBs before activation of rDNA transcription and in addition confirmed its localization in CBs. Immunolabelling with antibodies against RNA Pol I and UBF gave co-localization of these proteins, implicating that Nopp140 may actively participate to rDNA transcription. We suggest that fundamental differences in molecular organization of rDNA synthesis and postranscriptional processes between cycling somatic and pre-implantation embryonic cells may be in selective transport of transcription and/or processing-complexes of proteins to the nucleolar organizer regions (NOR). Mol. Reprod. Dev. 59:277-284, 2001.
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- V Baran
- Institute of Animal Physiology, SAS, Kosice, Slovakia.
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Savino TM, Gébrane-Younès J, De Mey J, Sibarita JB, Hernandez-Verdun D. Nucleolar assembly of the rRNA processing machinery in living cells. J Cell Biol 2001; 153:1097-110. [PMID: 11381093 PMCID: PMC2174343 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.153.5.1097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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To understand how nuclear machineries are targeted to accurate locations during nuclear assembly, we investigated the pathway of the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) processing machinery towards ribosomal genes (nucleolar organizer regions [NORs]) at exit of mitosis. To follow in living cells two permanently transfected green fluorescence protein-tagged nucleolar proteins, fibrillarin and Nop52, from metaphase to G1, 4-D time-lapse microscopy was used. In early telophase, fibrillarin is concentrated simultaneously in prenucleolar bodies (PNBs) and NORs, whereas PNB-containing Nop52 forms later. These distinct PNBs assemble at the chromosome surface. Analysis of PNB movement does not reveal the migration of PNBs towards the nucleolus, but rather a directional flow between PNBs and between PNBs and the nucleolus, ensuring progressive delivery of proteins into nucleoli. This delivery appeared organized in morphologically distinct structures visible by electron microscopy, suggesting transfer of large complexes. We propose that the temporal order of PNB assembly and disassembly controls nucleolar delivery of these proteins, and that accumulation of processing complexes in the nucleolus is driven by pre-rRNA concentration. Initial nucleolar formation around competent NORs appears to be followed by regroupment of the NORs into a single nucleolus 1 h later to complete the nucleolar assembly. This demonstrates the formation of one functional domain by cooperative interactions between different chromosome territories.
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- Institut Curie/Section de Recherche, UMR 146, 91405 Orsay, France
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Dundr M, Misteli T, Olson MO. The dynamics of postmitotic reassembly of the nucleolus. J Cell Biol 2000; 150:433-46. [PMID: 10931858 PMCID: PMC2175201 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.150.3.433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2000] [Accepted: 06/09/2000] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Mammalian cell nucleoli disassemble at the onset of M-phase and reassemble during telophase. Recent studies showed that partially processed preribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) is preserved in association with processing components in the perichromosomal regions (PRs) and in particles called nucleolus-derived foci (NDF) during mitosis. Here, the dynamics of nucleolar reassembly were examined for the first time in living cells expressing fusions of the processing-related proteins fibrillarin, nucleolin, or B23 with green fluorescent protein (GFP). During telophase the NDF disappeared with a concomitant appearance of material in the reforming nuclei. Prenucleolar bodies (PNBs) appeared in nuclei in early telophase and gradually disappeared as nucleoli formed, strongly suggesting the transfer of PNB components to newly forming nucleoli. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) showed that fibrillarin-GFP reassociates with the NDF and PNBs at rapid and similar rates. The reentry of processing complexes into telophase nuclei is suggested by the presence of pre-rRNA sequences in PNBs. Entry of specific proteins into the nucleolus approximately correlated with the timing of processing events. The mitotically preserved processing complexes may be essential for regulating the distribution of components to reassembling daughter cell nucleoli.
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- Miroslav Dundr
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Mississippi 39216
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Mississippi 39216
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The bovine papillomavirus E2 transactivator protein is a multifunctional protein that activates viral transcription, cooperates in initiation of viral DNA replication, and is required for long-term episomal maintenance of viral genomes. We have shown previously that the E2 transactivator protein and bovine papillomavirus type 1 genomes are associated with mitotic chromosomes and have proposed that E2 links the genomes to cellular chromosomes to ensure segregation to daughter nuclei. In this study, we show that E2 is associated with cellular chromosomes at all stages of mitosis. We also further map the regions of E2 that are required for this association. The transactivation domain of E2 is necessary and sufficient to mediate the interaction with mitotic chromosomes; the DNA binding domain, and the flexible hinge region that separates the two domains, is not required. Furthermore, mutation of previously identified phosphorylation sites (serine residues 235, 298, and 301) has no effect on the ability of the E2 protein to bind mitotic chromosomes.
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- N Bastien
- Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0455, USA
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