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Mills J, Tessari A, Anastas V, Kumar DS, Rad NS, Lamba S, Cosentini I, Reers A, Zhu Z, Miles WO, Coppola V, Cocucci E, Magliery TJ, Shive H, Davies AE, Rizzotto L, Croce CM, Palmieri D. Nucleolin acute degradation reveals novel functions in cell cycle progression and division in TNBC. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.17.599429. [PMID: 38948867 PMCID: PMC11212942 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.17.599429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
Abstract
Nucleoli are large nuclear sub-compartments where vital processes, such as ribosome assembly, take place. Technical obstacles still limit our understanding of the biological functions of nucleolar proteins in cell homeostasis and cancer pathogenesis. Since most nucleolar proteins are essential, their abrogation cannot be achieved through conventional approaches. Additionally, the biological activities of many nucleolar proteins are connected to their physiological concentration. Thus, artificial overexpression might not fully recapitulate their endogenous functions. Proteolysis-based approaches, such as the Auxin Inducible Degron (AID) system paired with CRISPR/Cas9 knock-in gene-editing, have the potential to overcome these limitations, providing unprecedented characterization of the biological activities of endogenous nucleolar proteins. We applied this system to endogenous nucleolin (NCL), one of the most abundant nucleolar proteins, and characterized the impact of its acute depletion on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) cell behavior. Abrogation of endogenous NCL reduced proliferation and caused defective cytokinesis, resulting in bi-nucleated tetraploid cells. Bioinformatic analysis of patient data, and quantitative proteomics using our experimental NCL-depleted model, indicated that NCL levels are correlated with the abundance of proteins involved in chromosomal segregation. In conjunction with its effects on sister chromatid dynamics, NCL abrogation enhanced the anti-proliferative effects of chemical inhibitors of mitotic modulators such as the Anaphase Promoting Complex. In summary, using the AID system in combination with CRISPR/Cas9 for endogenous gene editing, our findings indicate a novel role for NCL in supporting the completion of the cell division in TNBC models, and that its abrogation could enhance the therapeutic activity of mitotic-progression inhibitors.
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- Joseph Mills
- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, 02155, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Current address: Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, 70118, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Chemistry Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology, The Ohio State University-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology, The Ohio State University-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Current address: Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Current address: Division of Oncological Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, 97239, Portland, OR, USA
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- Gene Editing Shared Resource, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
- Gene Editing Shared Resource, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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Castro-Cruz A, Echeverría OM, Juárez-Chavero S, Sánchez-Sánchez L, Torres-Ramírez N, Vázquez-Nin GH, Muñoz-Velasco I, Escobar ML. Transcriptional activity and splicing factors are preserved during physiological apoptosis. J Struct Biol 2022; 214:107884. [PMID: 35908727 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2022.107884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Apoptosis is the best-known programmed cell death that maintains tissue homeostasis in eukaryotic cells. The morphological characteristics include nuclear and cytoplasmic contraction and cytoplasmic blebbing, its biochemical hallmarks include caspase protease activity and DNA fragmentation. In rat ovaries, cell death is a normal process that occurs throughout the organism's life. Granulosa cells, the more abundant cell type forming the ovarian follicles, are eliminated via different routes of cell death. Most granulosa cells are eliminated through apoptotic cell death. In this work, we analyzed the behavior of nuclear components throughout the apoptotic process and determined how they are regionalized and conserved during follicular atresia in rat ovaries. Apoptosis was detected based on caspase-3 activity and DNA fragmentation using the TUNEL technique. We identified the transcription markers H3ac and RNA Pol II, and splicing factor SC35 by immunodetection. The nucleolar components were analyzed via light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy through immunodetection of the proteins nucleolin and nucleophosmin-1. The nuclear ultrastructure was analyzed using standard contrast and preferential ribonucleoprotein contrast. Our results demonstrate that during the progression of apoptosis, chromatin is remodeled to constitute apoptotic bodies; transcription and spliceosome elements are reorganized along with the nucleolar components. Additionally, the splicing and transcription factors are segregated into specific territories inside the apoptotic bodies, suggesting that transcriptional elements are reorganized during the apoptotic process. Our results indicate that apoptotic bodies not only are compacted, and chromatin degraded but all the nuclear components are progressively reorganized during cell elimination; moreover, the transcriptional components are preserved.
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- A Castro-Cruz
- Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Col. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Col. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Col. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Biología Molecular del Cáncer, UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Lab. 6, 2do piso, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa, 09230 México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Col. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Col. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Col. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Col. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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Cancer Stem Cells and Nucleolin as Drivers of Carcinogenesis. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2021; 14:ph14010060. [PMID: 33451077 PMCID: PMC7828541 DOI: 10.3390/ph14010060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cancer, one of the most mortal diseases worldwide, is characterized by the gain of specific features and cellular heterogeneity. Clonal evolution is an established theory to explain heterogeneity, but the discovery of cancer stem cells expanded the concept to include the hierarchical growth and plasticity of cancer cells. The activation of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and its molecular players are widely correlated with the presence of cancer stem cells in tumors. Moreover, the acquisition of certain oncological features may be partially attributed to alterations in the levels, location or function of nucleolin, a multifunctional protein involved in several cellular processes. This review aims at integrating the established hallmarks of cancer with the plasticity of cancer cells as an emerging hallmark; responsible for tumor heterogeneity; therapy resistance and relapse. The discussion will contextualize the involvement of nucleolin in the establishment of cancer hallmarks and its application as a marker protein for targeted anticancer therapies
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Lyu G, Zong L, Zhang C, Huang X, Xie W, Fang J, Guan Y, Zhang L, Ni T, Gu J, Tao W. Metastasis-related methyltransferase 1 (Merm1) represses the methyltransferase activity of Dnmt3a and facilitates RNA polymerase I transcriptional elongation. J Mol Cell Biol 2019; 11:78-90. [PMID: 30535232 DOI: 10.1093/jmcb/mjy023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Stimulatory regulators for DNA methyltransferase activity, such as Dnmt3L and some Dnmt3b isoforms, affect DNA methylation patterns, thereby maintaining gene body methylation and maternal methylation imprinting, as well as the methylation landscape of pluripotent cells. Here we show that metastasis-related methyltransferase 1 (Merm1), a protein deleted in individuals with Williams-Beuren syndrome, acts as a repressive regulator of Dnmt3a. Merm1 interacts with Dnmt3a and represses its methyltransferase activity with the requirement of the binding motif for S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Functional analysis of gene regulation revealed that Merm1 is capable of maintaining hypomethylated rRNA gene bodies and co-localizes with RNA polymerase I in the nucleolus. Dnmt3a recruits Merm1, and in return, Merm1 ensures the binding of Dnmt3a to hypomethylated gene bodies. Such interplay between Dnmt3a and Merm1 facilitates transcriptional elongation by RNA polymerase I. Our findings reveal a repressive factor for Dnmt3a and uncover a molecular mechanism underlying transcriptional elongation of rRNA genes.
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- Guoliang Lyu
- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetics Engineering & Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai0, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Yan Y, Du Y, Wang G, Li K. Non-structural protein 1 of H3N2 influenza A virus induces nucleolar stress via interaction with nucleolin. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17761. [PMID: 29259342 PMCID: PMC5736645 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18087-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The nucleolus is a stress sensor associated with cell cycle progression and a central hub for the replication of pathogenic RNA viruses. However, the role of nucleolus in influenza A virus infection has not been well studied. Here we show that the interaction between NS1 protein of influenza A/Shantou/602/06 (H3N2) and nucleolin, a ubiquitous protein of nucleolus repressed RNA Pol I-dependent transcription via establishing hyper-methylation in the UCE of rRNA gene promoter. NS1 expressed cells showed significant association of ribosomal proteins with MDM2, and p53 accumulation, suggesting induced nucleolar stress. Disruption of the interaction of NS1 with nucleolin or overexpression of nucleolin in NS1 expressed cells revived RNA Pol I-dependent transcription, indicating nucleolin could be one target for NS1 to repress rRNA synthesis of host cells. Our present study suggests that NS1 protein of H3N2 could induce nucleolar stress based on epigenetic alteration of rRNA gene promoter via interaction with nucleolin.
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- Yinxia Yan
- Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology of Guangdong Province, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology of Guangdong Province, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology of Guangdong Province, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology of Guangdong Province, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China.
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Matheson TD, Kaufman PD. The p150N domain of chromatin assembly factor-1 regulates Ki-67 accumulation on the mitotic perichromosomal layer. Mol Biol Cell 2016; 28:21-29. [PMID: 27807046 PMCID: PMC5221625 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e16-09-0659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Revised: 10/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Chromatin assembly factor 1 (CAF-1) deposits histones during DNA synthesis. The p150 subunit of human CAF-1 contains an N-terminal domain (p150N) that is dispensable for histone deposition but promotes the localization of specific loci (nucleolar-associated domains [NADs]) and proteins to the nucleolus during interphase. One of the p150N-regulated proteins is proliferation antigen Ki-67, whose depletion also decreases the nucleolar association of NADs. Ki-67 is also a fundamental component of the perichromosomal layer (PCL), a sheath of proteins surrounding condensed chromosomes during mitosis. We show here that a subset of p150 localizes to the PCL during mitosis and that p150N is required for normal levels of Ki-67 accumulation on the PCL. This activity requires the sumoylation-interacting motif within p150N, which is also required for the nucleolar localization of NADs and Ki-67 during interphase. In this manner, p150N coordinates both interphase and mitotic nuclear structures via Ki67.
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- Timothy D Matheson
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605
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Matheson TD, Kaufman PD. Grabbing the genome by the NADs. Chromosoma 2016; 125:361-71. [PMID: 26174338 PMCID: PMC4714962 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-015-0527-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Revised: 06/19/2015] [Accepted: 06/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The regions of the genome that interact frequently with the nucleolus have been termed nucleolar-associated domains (NADs). Deep sequencing and DNA-fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) experiments have revealed that these domains are enriched for repetitive elements, regions of the inactive X chromosome (Xi), and several RNA polymerase III-transcribed genes. NADs are often marked by chromatin modifications characteristic of heterochromatin, including H3K27me3, H3K9me3, and H4K20me3, and artificial targeting of genes to this area is correlated with reduced expression. It has therefore been hypothesized that NAD localization to the nucleolar periphery contributes to the establishment and/or maintenance of heterochromatic silencing. Recently published studies from several multicellular eukaryotes have begun to reveal the trans-acting factors involved in NAD localization, including the insulator protein CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF), chromatin assembly factor (CAF)-1 subunit p150, several nucleolar proteins, and two long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). The mechanisms by which these factors coordinate with one another in regulating NAD localization and/or silencing are still unknown. This review will summarize recently published studies, discuss where additional research is required, and speculate about the mechanistic and functional implications of genome organization around the nucleolus.
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- Timothy D Matheson
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01605, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01605, USA.
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Lim KH, Park JJ, Gu BH, Kim JO, Park SG, Baek KH. HAUSP-nucleolin interaction is regulated by p53-Mdm2 complex in response to DNA damage response. Sci Rep 2015; 5:12793. [PMID: 26238070 PMCID: PMC4523935 DOI: 10.1038/srep12793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
HAUSP (herpes virus-associated ubiquitin specific protease, known as ubiquitin specific protease 7), one of DUBs, regulates the dynamics of the p53 and Mdm2 network in response to DNA damage by deubiquitinating both p53 and its E3 ubiquitin ligase, Mdm2. Its concerted action increases the level of functional p53 by preventing proteasome-dependent degradation of p53. However, the protein substrates that are targeted by HAUSP to mediate DNA damage responses in the context of the HAUSP-p53-Mdm2 complex are not fully identified. Here, we identified nucleolin as a new substrate for HAUSP by proteomic analysis. Nucleolin has two HAUSP binding sites in its N- and C-terminal regions, and the mutation of HAUSP interacting peptides on nucleolin disrupts their interaction and it leads to the increased level of nucleolin ubiquitination. In addition, HAUSP regulates the stability of nucleolin by removing ubiquitin from nucleolin. Nucleolin exists as a component of the HAUSP-p53-Mdm2 complex, and both Mdm2 and p53 are required for the interaction between HAUSP and nucleolin. Importantly, the irradiation increases the HAUSP-nucleolin interaction, leading to nucleolin stabilization significantly. Taken together, this study reveals a new component of the HAUSP-p53-Mdm2 complex that governs dynamic cellular responses to DNA damage.
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- Key-Hwan Lim
- Department of Biomedical Science, CHA University, Bundang CHA General Hospital, Gyeonggi-Do 463-400, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, CHA University, Bundang CHA General Hospital, Gyeonggi-Do 463-400, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, CHA University, Bundang CHA General Hospital, Gyeonggi-Do 463-400, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, CHA University, Bundang CHA General Hospital, Gyeonggi-Do 463-400, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Ajou University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do 443-749, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, CHA University, Bundang CHA General Hospital, Gyeonggi-Do 463-400, Republic of Korea
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Mateos J, Landeira-Abia A, Fafián-Labora JA, Fernández-Pernas P, Lesende-Rodríguez I, Fernández-Puente P, Fernández-Moreno M, Delmiro A, Martín MA, Blanco FJ, Arufe MC. iTRAQ-based analysis of progerin expression reveals mitochondrial dysfunction, reactive oxygen species accumulation and altered proteostasis. Stem Cell Res Ther 2015; 6:119. [PMID: 26066325 PMCID: PMC4487579 DOI: 10.1186/s13287-015-0110-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2014] [Revised: 10/14/2014] [Accepted: 06/04/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Nuclear accumulation of a mutant form of the nuclear protein Lamin-A, called Progerin (PG) or Lamin AΔ50, occurs in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) or Progeria, an accelerated aging disease. One of the main symptoms of this genetic disorder is a loss of sub-cutaneous fat due to a dramatic lipodystrophy. METHODS We stably induced the expression of human PG and GFP -Green Fluorescent Protein- as control in 3T3L1 cells using a lentiviral system to study the effect of PG expression in the differentiation capacity of this cell line, one of the most used adipogenic models. Quantitative proteomics (iTRAQ) was done to study the effect of the PG accumulation. Several of the modulated proteins were validated by immunoblotting and real-time PCR. Mitochondrial function was analyzed by measurement of a) the mitochondrial basal activity, b) the superoxide anion production and c) the individual efficiency of the different complex of the respiratory chain. RESULTS We found that over-expression PG by lentiviral gene delivery leads to a decrease in the proliferation rate and to defects in adipogenic capacity when compared to the control. Quantitative proteomics analysis showed 181 proteins significantly (p<0.05) modulated in PG-expressing preadipocytes. Mitochondrial function is impaired in PG-expressing cells. Specifically, we have detected an increase in the activity of the complex I and an overproduction of Superoxide anion. Incubation with Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) scavenger agents drives to a decrease in autophagic proteolysis as revealed by LC3-II/LC3-I ratio. CONCLUSION PG expression in 3T3L1 cells promotes changes in several Biological Processes, including structure of cytoskeleton, lipid metabolism, calcium regulation, translation, protein folding and energy generation by the mitochondria. Our data strengthen the contribution of ROS accumulation to the premature aging phenotype and establish a link between mitochondrial dysfunction and loss of proteostasis in HGPS.
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- Jesús Mateos
- Grupo de Proteómica-ProteoRed/Plataforma PBR2-ISCIII, Servicio de Reumatología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Grupo de Proteómica-ProteoRed/Plataforma PBR2-ISCIII, Servicio de Reumatología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Cellular Therapy and Medicine Regenerative Group, Department of Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Cellular Therapy and Medicine Regenerative Group, Department of Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
- Rheumatology Division, CIBER-BBN/ISCII, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Cellular Therapy and Medicine Regenerative Group, Department of Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Grupo de Proteómica-ProteoRed/Plataforma PBR2-ISCIII, Servicio de Reumatología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Rheumatology Division, CIBER-BBN/ISCII, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
- Grupo de Genómica, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Laboratorio de Enfermedades Mitocondriales, Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i + 12), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723, Madrid, E-28041, Spain.
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- Laboratorio de Enfermedades Mitocondriales, Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre (i + 12), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), U723, Madrid, E-28041, Spain.
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- Grupo de Proteómica-ProteoRed/Plataforma PBR2-ISCIII, Servicio de Reumatología, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
- Rheumatology Division, CIBER-BBN/ISCII, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Cellular Therapy and Medicine Regenerative Group, Department of Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas, Universidade da Coruña, As Xubias, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
- Rheumatology Division, CIBER-BBN/ISCII, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, 15006, A Coruña, Spain.
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Durut N, Sáez-Vásquez J. Nucleolin: dual roles in rDNA chromatin transcription. Gene 2015; 556:7-12. [PMID: 25225127 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2014] [Revised: 09/08/2014] [Accepted: 09/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Nucleolin is a major nucleolar protein conserved in all eukaryotic organisms. It is a multifunctional protein involved in different cellular aspects like chromatin organization and stability, DNA and RNA metabolism, assembly of ribonucleoprotein complexes, cytokinesis, cell proliferation and stress response. The multifunctionality of nucleolin is linked to its tripartite structure, post-translational modifications and its ability of shuttling from and to the nucleolus/nucleoplasm and cytoplasm. Nucleolin has been now studied for many years and its activities and properties have been described in a number of excellent reviews. Here, we overview the role of nucleolin in RNA polymerase I (RNAPI) transcription and describe recent results concerning its functional interaction with rDNA chromatin organization. For a long time, nucleolin has been associated with rRNA gene expression and pre-rRNA processing. However, the functional connection between nucleolin and active versus inactive rRNA genes is still not fully understood. Novel evidence indicates that the nucleolin protein might be required for controlling the transcriptional ON/OFF states of rDNA chromatin in both mammals and plants.
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- Nathalie Durut
- CNRS, Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, UMR 5096, 66860 Perpignan, France; Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, UMR 5096, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, UMR 5096, 66860 Perpignan, France; Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, UMR 5096, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
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Skeletal muscle plasticity induced by seasonal acclimatization in carp involves differential expression of rRNA and molecules that epigenetically regulate its synthesis. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2014; 172-173:57-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2014.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Revised: 03/28/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Kodiha M, Salimi A, Wang YM, Stochaj U. Pharmacological AMP kinase activators target the nucleolar organization and control cell proliferation. PLoS One 2014; 9:e88087. [PMID: 24498249 PMCID: PMC3907577 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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AIMS Phenformin, resveratrol and AICAR stimulate the energy sensor 5'-AMP activated kinase (AMPK) and inhibit the first step of ribosome biogenesis, de novo RNA synthesis in nucleoli. Nucleolar activities are relevant to human health, because ribosome production is crucial to the development of diabetic complications. Although the function of nucleoli relies on their organization, the impact of AMPK activators on nucleolar structures is not known. Here, we addressed this question by examining four nucleolar proteins that are essential for ribosome biogenesis. METHODS Kidney cells were selected as model system, because diabetic nephropathy is one of the complications associated with diabetes mellitus. To determine the impact of pharmacological agents on nucleoli, we focused on the subcellular and subnuclear distribution of B23/nucleophosmin, fibrillarin, nucleolin and RPA194. This was achieved by quantitative confocal microscopy at the single-cell level in combination with cell fractionation and quantitative Western blotting. RESULTS AMPK activators induced the re-organization of nucleoli, which was accompanied by changes in cell proliferation. Among the compounds tested, phenformin and resveratrol had the most pronounced impact on nucleolar organization. For B23, fibrillarin, nucleolin and RPA194, both agents (i) altered the nucleocytoplasmic distribution and nucleolar association and (ii) reduced significantly the retention in the nucleus. (iii) Phenformin and resveratrol also increased significantly the total concentration of B23 and nucleolin. CONCLUSIONS AMPK activators have unique effects on the subcellular localization, nuclear retention and abundance of nucleolar proteins. We propose that the combination of these events inhibits de novo ribosomal RNA synthesis and modulates cell proliferation. Our studies identified nucleolin as a target that is especially sensitive to pharmacological AMPK activators. Because of its response to pharmacological agents, nucleolin represents a potential biomarker for the development of drugs that diminish diabetic renal hypertrophy.
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- Mohamed Kodiha
- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Hirai Y, Louvet E, Oda T, Kumeta M, Watanabe Y, Horigome T, Takeyasu K. Nucleolar scaffold protein, WDR46, determines the granular compartmental localization of nucleolin and DDX21. Genes Cells 2013; 18:780-97. [PMID: 23848194 DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The nuclear scaffold is an insoluble nuclear structure that contributes to the inner nuclear organization. In this study, we showed that one of the nuclear scaffold proteins, WDR46, plays a role as a fundamental scaffold component of the nucleolar structure. WDR46 is a highly insoluble nucleolar protein, and its subcellular localization is dependent on neither DNA nor RNA. The N- and C-terminal regions of WDR46 are predicted to be intrinsically disordered, and both regions are critical for the nucleolar localization of WDR46 and the association with its binding partners. When WDR46 was knocked down, two of its binding partners, nucleolin and DDX21 (involved in 18S rRNA processing), were mislocalized from the granular component to the edges of the nucleoli, whereas other binding partners, NOP2 and EBP2 (involved in 28S rRNA processing), were not affected. This is because the proper recruitment of nucleolin and DDX21 to the nucleoli in daughter cells after cell division is ensured by WDR46. These findings suggest a structural role for WDR46 in organizing the 18S ribosomal RNA processing machinery. This role of WDR46 is enabled by its interaction property via intrinsically disordered regions.
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- Yuya Hirai
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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Cong R, Das S, Ugrinova I, Kumar S, Mongelard F, Wong J, Bouvet P. Interaction of nucleolin with ribosomal RNA genes and its role in RNA polymerase I transcription. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:9441-54. [PMID: 22859736 PMCID: PMC3479187 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2011] [Revised: 06/04/2012] [Accepted: 07/04/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Nucleolin is a multi-functional nucleolar protein that is required for ribosomal RNA gene (rRNA) transcription in vivo, but the mechanism by which nucleolin modulates RNA polymerase I (RNAPI) transcription is not well understood. Nucleolin depletion results in an increase in the heterochromatin mark H3K9me2 and a decrease in H4K12Ac and H3K4me3 euchromatin histone marks in rRNA genes. ChIP-seq experiments identified an enrichment of nucleolin in the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) coding and promoter region. Nucleolin is preferentially associated with unmethylated rRNA genes and its depletion leads to the accumulation of RNAPI at the beginning of the transcription unit and a decrease in UBF along the coding and promoter regions. Nucleolin is able to affect the binding of transcription termination factor-1 on the promoter-proximal terminator T0, thus inhibiting the recruitment of TIP5 and HDAC1 and the establishment of a repressive heterochromatin state. These results reveal the importance of nucleolin for the maintenance of the euchromatin state and transcription elongation of rDNA.
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- Rong Cong
- Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS USR 3010, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, 69364 Lyon, France, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and BioCOS Life Sciences Private Limited, Biotech Park, Electronics City, Phase-1, Bangalore 560100, India
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- Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS USR 3010, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, 69364 Lyon, France, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and BioCOS Life Sciences Private Limited, Biotech Park, Electronics City, Phase-1, Bangalore 560100, India
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- Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS USR 3010, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, 69364 Lyon, France, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and BioCOS Life Sciences Private Limited, Biotech Park, Electronics City, Phase-1, Bangalore 560100, India
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- Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS USR 3010, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, 69364 Lyon, France, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and BioCOS Life Sciences Private Limited, Biotech Park, Electronics City, Phase-1, Bangalore 560100, India
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- Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS USR 3010, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, 69364 Lyon, France, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and BioCOS Life Sciences Private Limited, Biotech Park, Electronics City, Phase-1, Bangalore 560100, India
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- Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS USR 3010, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, 69364 Lyon, France, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and BioCOS Life Sciences Private Limited, Biotech Park, Electronics City, Phase-1, Bangalore 560100, India
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- Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS USR 3010, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, 69364 Lyon, France, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and BioCOS Life Sciences Private Limited, Biotech Park, Electronics City, Phase-1, Bangalore 560100, India
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Boamah EK, Kotova E, Garabedian M, Jarnik M, Tulin AV. Poly(ADP-Ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1) regulates ribosomal biogenesis in Drosophila nucleoli. PLoS Genet 2012; 8:e1002442. [PMID: 22242017 PMCID: PMC3252306 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2011] [Accepted: 11/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1), a nuclear protein, utilizes NAD to synthesize poly(AD-Pribose) (pADPr), resulting in both automodification and the modification of acceptor proteins. Substantial amounts of PARP1 and pADPr (up to 50%) are localized to the nucleolus, a subnuclear organelle known as a region for ribosome biogenesis and maturation. At present, the functional significance of PARP1 protein inside the nucleolus remains unclear. Using PARP1 mutants, we investigated the function of PARP1, pADPr, and PARP1-interacting proteins in the maintenance of nucleolus structure and functions. Our analysis shows that disruption of PARP1 enzymatic activity caused nucleolar disintegration and aberrant localization of nucleolar-specific proteins. Additionally, PARP1 mutants have increased accumulation of rRNA intermediates and a decrease in ribosome levels. Together, our data suggests that PARP1 enzymatic activity is required for targeting nucleolar proteins to the proximity of precursor rRNA; hence, PARP1 controls precursor rRNA processing, post-transcriptional modification, and pre-ribosome assembly. Based on these findings, we propose a model that explains how PARP1 activity impacts nucleolar functions and, consequently, ribosomal biogenesis. Ribosome assembly happens primarily in the subnuclear organelle nucleolus. In the nucleolus, ribosomes are assembled into a multmeric complex, composed of rRNA and ribosomal proteins. Although a lot is known about ribosomes and how they function, very little is known about the mechanism that facilitates the assembly of these multimeric protein complexes in the nucleolus. Here, we provide evidence that a nuclear protein, PARP1, primarily known for its DNA damage repair and transcriptional activities, also plays a critical role in the assembly of ribosomes. Using the Drosophila model system, we show that PARP1 localization within the nucleolus impacts such nucleolar activities as rRNA processing and ribosome biogenesis. We show that, when PARP1 activity is disrupted, nucleolar proteins that normally co-localize under wild-type conditions disperse into the nucleoplasm and do not show any co-localization. We also show that some nucleolar proteins, essential for rRNA processing, also interact with pADPr, which keeps these proteins close to precursor rRNA. When PARP1 activity was disrupted, we observed precursors rRNA accumulation and a concomitant decrease in the levels of ribosomes. Together, our data suggest a novel activity for PARP1 and highlight a potential mechanism associated with ribosome biogenesis in the nucleolus.
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- Ernest K. Boamah
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Tajrishi MM, Tuteja R, Tuteja N. Nucleolin: The most abundant multifunctional phosphoprotein of nucleolus. Commun Integr Biol 2011; 4:267-75. [PMID: 21980556 DOI: 10.4161/cib.4.3.14884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2011] [Accepted: 01/18/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Nucleolin is a multifunctional phosphoprotein ubiquitously distributed in the nucleolus, nucleus and cytoplasm of the cell. Nucleolin has a bipartite nuclear localization signal sequence and is conserved in animals, plants and yeast. Its levels are correlated with the rate of functional activity of the nucleolus in exponentially growing cells. Nucleolin contains intrinsic DNA and RNA helicase, nucleic-acid-dependent ATPase and self-cleaving activities. It binds RNA through its RNA recognition motifs. It regulates various aspects of DNA and RNA metabolism, chromatin structure, rDNA transcription, rRNA maturation, cytokinesis, nucleogenesis, cell proliferation and growth, the folding, maturation and ribosome assembly and nucleocytoplasmic transport of newly synthesized pre-RNAs. In this review we present an overview on nucleolin, its localization, structure and various functions. We also describe the discovery and important studies of nucleolin in plants.
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- Marjan M Tajrishi
- International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; Aruna Asaf Ali Marg; New Delhi, Delhi India
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Pontvianne F, Abou-Ellail M, Douet J, Comella P, Matia I, Chandrasekhara C, DeBures A, Blevins T, Cooke R, Medina FJ, Tourmente S, Pikaard CS, Sáez-Vásquez J. Nucleolin is required for DNA methylation state and the expression of rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet 2010; 6:e1001225. [PMID: 21124873 PMCID: PMC2991258 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2010] [Accepted: 10/27/2010] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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In eukaryotes, 45S rRNA genes are arranged in tandem arrays in copy numbers ranging from several hundred to several thousand in plants. Although it is clear that not all copies are transcribed under normal growth conditions, the molecular basis controlling the expression of specific sets of rRNA genes remains unclear. Here, we report four major rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis thaliana. Interestingly, while transcription of one of these rRNA variants is induced, the others are either repressed or remain unaltered in A. thaliana plants with a disrupted nucleolin-like protein gene (Atnuc-L1). Remarkably, the most highly represented rRNA gene variant, which is inactive in WT plants, is reactivated in Atnuc-L1 mutants. We show that accumulated pre-rRNAs originate from RNA Pol I transcription and are processed accurately. Moreover, we show that disruption of the AtNUC-L1 gene induces loss of symmetrical DNA methylation without affecting histone epigenetic marks at rRNA genes. Collectively, these data reveal a novel mechanism for rRNA gene transcriptional regulation in which the nucleolin protein plays a major role in controlling active and repressed rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis.
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- Frédéric Pontvianne
- UMR 5096 CNRS-IRD-University de Perpignan, Perpignan, France
- Department of Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- UMR CNRS 6247, INSERM U931, University Blaise Pascal, Aubière, France
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- UMR 5096 CNRS-IRD-University de Perpignan, Perpignan, France
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigacion Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- UMR 5096 CNRS-IRD-University de Perpignan, Perpignan, France
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- Department of Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- UMR 5096 CNRS-IRD-University de Perpignan, Perpignan, France
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigacion Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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Chathoth KT, Ganesan G, Rao MRS. Identification of a novel nucleolin related protein (NRP) gene expressed during rat spermatogenesis. BMC Mol Biol 2009; 10:64. [PMID: 19570216 PMCID: PMC2711064 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-10-64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2008] [Accepted: 07/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Nucleolin is a major nucleolar phosphoprotein involved in various steps of ribosome biogenesis in eukaryotic cells. As nucleolin plays a significant role in ribosomal RNA transcription we were interested in examining in detail the expression of nucleolin across different stages of spermatogenesis and correlate with the transcription status of ribosomal DNA in germ cells. Results By RT PCR and western blot analysis we found that nucleolin is strongly down regulated in meiotic spermatocytes and haploid germ cells. We have identified a new nucleolin related protein (NRP) gene in the rat genome, which is over expressed in the testis and is up regulated several fold in meiotic spermatocytes and haploid germ cells. The NRP protein lacks the acidic stretches in its N terminal domain, and it is encoded in rat chromosome 15 having a different genomic organization as compared to nucleolin gene present on chromosome 9. We have also found NRP genes encoded in genomes of other mammalian species. We performed run-on transcription assay where we have observed that rDNA is transcribed at much lower level in meiotic spermatocytes and haploid spermatids as compared to diploid cells. By siRNA knock down experiments we could also demonstrate that NRP can support rDNA transcription in the absence of nucleolin. Conclusion We have identified a new nucleolin variant over expressed in germ cells in rat and analyzed its domain structure. We attribute that the transcriptional activity of rDNA genes in the late spermatogenesis is due to the presence of this variant NRP. The expression of this variant in the germ cells in the absence of nucleolin, could have additional functions in the mammalian spermatogenesis which needs to be investigated further.
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- Keerthi T Chathoth
- Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Banglore, India 560064, USA.
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Storck S, Thiry M, Bouvet P. Conditional knockout of nucleolin in DT40 cells reveals the functional redundancy of its RNA-binding domains. Biol Cell 2009; 101:153-67. [PMID: 18637790 DOI: 10.1042/bc20080054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION Nucleolin is a major nucleolar protein which is highly expressed in rapidly dividing cells and cancer cell lines. This protein is claimed to be multifunctional and could play a role in rRNA (ribosomal RNA) synthesis, as well as in cell division or response to cellular stresses. Therefore, how nucleolin influences cell proliferation remained elusive so far. RESULTS We have generated conditional nucleolin-knockout cells using the chicken B lymphocyte cell line DT40. Our results indicate that nucleolin is absolutely required for the proliferation and for the survival of these cells. Depletion of nucleolin drastically inhibits rDNA (ribosomal DNA) transcription while only slightly affecting pre-rRNA processing. This inhibition is accompanied by modifications of the shape and the structure of the nucleolus. The analysis of mutants of nucleolin, which lack two or three RNA-binding domains, shows that these domains harbour redundant functions and that nucleolin's roles in transcription, rRNA maturation and nucleolar shape can be partially uncoupled. CONCLUSIONS The function of nucleolin in ribosomal synthesis could account for its effect on cell division and survival, but this vital role does not seem to be linked to sequence-specific RNA binding.
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Nucleolin – Characteristics of Protein and its Role in Biology of Cancers and Viral Infections. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.2478/v10052-008-0003-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ugrinova I, Monier K, Ivaldi C, Thiry M, Storck S, Mongelard F, Bouvet P. Inactivation of nucleolin leads to nucleolar disruption, cell cycle arrest and defects in centrosome duplication. BMC Mol Biol 2007; 8:66. [PMID: 17692122 PMCID: PMC1976620 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2007] [Accepted: 08/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Nucleolin is a major component of the nucleolus, but is also found in other cell compartments. This protein is involved in various aspects of ribosome biogenesis from transcription regulation to the assembly of pre-ribosomal particles; however, many reports suggest that it could also play an important role in non nucleolar functions. To explore nucleolin function in cell proliferation and cell cycle regulation we used siRNA to down regulate the expression of nucleolin. RESULTS We found that, in addition to the expected effects on pre-ribosomal RNA accumulation and nucleolar structure, the absence of nucleolin results in a cell growth arrest, accumulation in G2, and an increase of apoptosis. Numerous nuclear alterations, including the presence of micronuclei, multiple nuclei or large nuclei are also observed. In addition, a large number of mitotic cells showed a defect in the control of centrosome duplication, as indicated by the presence of more than 2 centrosomes per cell associated with a multipolar spindle structure in the absence of nucleolin. This phenotype is very similar to that obtained with the inactivation of another nucleolar protein, B23. CONCLUSION Our findings uncovered a new role for nucleolin in cell division, and highlight the importance of nucleolar proteins for centrosome duplication.
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- Iva Ugrinova
- Laboratory Joliot-Curie, CNRS USR 3010, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
- Laboratory of molecular biology of the cell, CNRS UMR 5239, IFR128 Biosciences, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
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- Laboratory of molecular biology of the cell, CNRS UMR 5239, IFR128 Biosciences, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
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- Laboratory Joliot-Curie, CNRS USR 3010, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
- Laboratory of molecular biology of the cell, CNRS UMR 5239, IFR128 Biosciences, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
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- Laboratory Joliot-Curie, CNRS USR 3010, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
- Laboratory of molecular biology of the cell, CNRS UMR 5239, IFR128 Biosciences, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
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- Laboratory Joliot-Curie, CNRS USR 3010, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
- Laboratory of molecular biology of the cell, CNRS UMR 5239, IFR128 Biosciences, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
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- Laboratory Joliot-Curie, CNRS USR 3010, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
- Laboratory of molecular biology of the cell, CNRS UMR 5239, IFR128 Biosciences, University of Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, France
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Alvarez M, Nardocci G, Thiry M, Alvarez R, Reyes M, Molina A, Vera MI. The nuclear phenotypic plasticity observed in fish during rRNA regulation entails Cajal bodies dynamics. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 360:40-5. [PMID: 17588531 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.05.217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2007] [Accepted: 05/25/2007] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Cajal bodies (CBs) are small mobile organelles found throughout the nucleoplasm of animal and plant cells. The dynamics of these organelles involves interactions with the nucleolus. The later has been found to play a substantial role in the compensatory response that evolved in eurythermal fish to adapt to the cyclic seasonal habitat changes, i.e., temperature and photoperiod. Contrary to being constitutive, rRNA synthesis is dramatically regulated between summer and winter, thus affecting ribosomal biogenesis which plays a central role in the acclimatization process. To examine whether CBs, up to now, never described in fish, were also sustaining the phenotypic plasticity observed in nuclei of fish undergoing seasonal acclimatization, we identified these organelles both, by transmission electronic microscopy and immunodetection with the marker protein p80-coilin. We found transcripts in all tissues analyzed. Furthermore we assessed that p80-coilin gene expression was always higher in summer-acclimatized fish when compared to that adapted to the cold season, indicating that p80-coilin expression is modulated upon seasonal acclimatization. Concurrently, CBs were more frequently found in summer-acclimatized carp which suggests that the organization of CBs is involved in adaptive processes and contribute to the phenotypic plasticity of fish cell nuclei observed concomitantly with profound reprogramming of nucleolar components and regulation of ribosomal rRNAs.
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- Marco Alvarez
- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, and Millennium Institute for Fundamental and Applied Biology, Santiago, Chile
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Comitato A, Spampanato C, Chakarova C, Sanges D, Bhattacharya SS, Marigo V. Mutations in splicing factor PRPF3, causing retinal degeneration, form detrimental aggregates in photoreceptor cells. Hum Mol Genet 2007; 16:1699-707. [PMID: 17517693 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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PRPF3 is an element of the splicing machinery ubiquitously expressed, yet mutations in this gene are associated with a tissue-specific phenotype: autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Here, we studied the subcellular localization of endogenous- and mutant-transfected PRPF3. We found that (i) subcellular distribution of the endogenous wild-type protein co-localizes with small nuclear ribonucleoproteins, partially with a nucleolar marker and accumulates in speckles labeled by SC35; (ii) in human retinas, PRPF3 does not show a distinctive abundance in photoreceptors, the cells affected in RP and (iii) the RP causing mutant PRPF3, differently from the wild-type protein, forms abnormally big aggregates in transfected photoreceptor cells. Aggregation of T494M mutant PRPF3 inside the nucleus triggers apoptosis only in photoreceptor cells. On the basis of the observation that mutant PRPF3 accumulates in the nucleolus and that transcriptional, translational and proteasome inhibition can induce this phenomenon in non-photoreceptor cells, we hypothesize that mutation affects splicing factor recycling. Noteworthy, accumulation of the mutant protein in big aggregates also affects distribution of some other splicing factors. Our data suggest that the mutant protein has a cell-specific dominant effect in rod photoreceptors while appears not to be harmful to epithelial and fibroblast cells.
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- Antonella Comitato
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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Grinstein E, Du Y, Santourlidis S, Christ J, Uhrberg M, Wernet P. Nucleolin regulates gene expression in CD34-positive hematopoietic cells. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:12439-49. [PMID: 17255095 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m608068200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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CD34 glycoprotein in human hematopoiesis is expressed on a subset of progenitor cells capable of self-renewal, multilineage differentiation, and hematopoietic reconstitution. Nucleolin is an abundant multifunctional phosphoprotein of growing eukaryotic cells, involved in regulation of gene transcription, chromatin remodeling, and RNA metabolism, whose transcripts are enriched in murine hematopoietic stem cells, as opposed to differentiated tissue. Here we show that, in human CD34-positive hematopoietic cells, nucleolin activates endogenous CD34 and Bcl-2 gene expression, and cell surface CD34 protein expression is thereby enhanced by nucleolin. Nucleolin-mediated activation of CD34 gene transcription results from direct sequence-specific interactions with the CD34 promoter region. Nucleolin expression prevails in CD34-positive cells mobilized into peripheral blood (PB), as opposed to CD34-negative peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Therefore, in intact CD34-positive mobilized PB cells, a recruitment of nucleolin to the CD34 promoter region takes place, accompanied by nucleosomal determinants of gene activity, which are absent from the CD34 promoter region in CD34-negative PBMCs. Our data show that nucleolin acts as a component of the gene regulation program of CD34-positive hematopoietic cells and provide further insights into processes by which human CD34-positive hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells are maintained.
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- Edgar Grinstein
- Institute of Transplantation Diagnostics and Cellular Therapeutics, Heinrich Heine University Medical Center, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Pontvianne F, Matía I, Douet J, Tourmente S, Medina FJ, Echeverria M, Sáez-Vásquez J. Characterization of AtNUC-L1 reveals a central role of nucleolin in nucleolus organization and silencing of AtNUC-L2 gene in Arabidopsis. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:369-79. [PMID: 17108323 PMCID: PMC1783796 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-08-0751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2006] [Revised: 10/27/2006] [Accepted: 11/02/2006] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Nucleolin is one of the most abundant protein in the nucleolus and is a multifunctional protein involved in different steps of ribosome biogenesis. In contrast to animals and yeast, the genome of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana encodes two nucleolin-like proteins, AtNUC-L1 and AtNUC-L2. However, only the AtNUC-L1 gene is ubiquitously expressed in normal growth conditions. Disruption of this AtNUC-L1 gene leads to severe plant growth and development defects. AtNUC-L1 is localized in the nucleolus, mainly in the dense fibrillar component. Absence of this protein in Atnuc-L1 plants induces nucleolar disorganization, nucleolus organizer region decondensation, and affects the accumulation levels of pre-rRNA precursors. Remarkably, in Atnuc-L1 plants the AtNUC-L2 gene is activated, suggesting that AtNUC-L2 might rescue, at least partially, the loss of AtNUC-L1. This work is the first description of a higher eukaryotic organism with a disrupted nucleolin-like gene and defines a new role for nucleolin in nucleolus structure and rDNA chromatin organization.
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- Frederic Pontvianne
- *Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5096, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Ramiro de Maetzu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain; and
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 6547, BIOMOVE, Université Blaise Pascal, 63177 Aubière, France
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 6547, BIOMOVE, Université Blaise Pascal, 63177 Aubière, France
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Ramiro de Maetzu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain; and
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- *Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5096, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France
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- *Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5096, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France
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Mongelard F, Bouvet P. Nucleolin: a multiFACeTed protein. Trends Cell Biol 2007; 17:80-6. [PMID: 17157503 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2006.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 247] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2006] [Accepted: 11/30/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nucleolin is an abundant, ubiquitously expressed protein that is found in various cell compartments, especially in the nucleolus, of which it is a major component. This multifunctional protein has been described as being a part of many pathways, from interactions with viruses at the cellular membrane to essential processing of the ribosomal RNA in the nucleolus. However, most of the molecular details of these different functions are not understood. Here, we focus on the role of nucleolin in transcription, especially some recent findings describing the protein as a histone chaperone [with functional similarity to the facilitates chromatin transcription (FACT) complex] and a chromatin co-remodeler. These new properties could help reconcile discrepancies in the literature regarding the role of nucleolin in transcription.
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- Fabien Mongelard
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France
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Rickards B, Flint SJ, Cole MD, LeRoy G. Nucleolin is required for RNA polymerase I transcription in vivo. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:937-48. [PMID: 17130237 PMCID: PMC1800701 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01584-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2006] [Revised: 10/04/2006] [Accepted: 11/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic genomes are packaged with histones and accessory proteins in the form of chromatin. RNA polymerases and their accessory proteins are sufficient for transcription of naked DNA, but not of chromatin, templates in vitro. In this study, we purified and identified nucleolin as a protein that allows RNA polymerase II to transcribe nucleosomal templates in vitro. As immunofluorescence confirmed that nucleolin localizes primarily to nucleoli with RNA polymerase I, we demonstrated that nucleolin allows RNA polymerase I transcription of chromatin templates in vitro. The results of chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments established that nucleolin is associated with chromatin containing rRNA genes transcribed by RNA polymerase I but not with genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II or III. Knockdown of nucleolin by RNA interference resulted in specific inhibition of RNA polymerase I transcription. We therefore propose that an important function of nucleolin is to permit RNA polymerase I to transcribe nucleolar chromatin.
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- Brenden Rickards
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Storck S, Shukla M, Dimitrov S, Bouvet P. Functions of the histone chaperone nucleolin in diseases. Subcell Biochem 2007; 41:125-44. [PMID: 17484127 DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5466-1_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Alteration of nuclear morphology is often used by pathologist as diagnostic marker for malignancies like cancer. In particular, the staining of cells by the silver staining methods (AgNOR) has been proved to be an important tool for predicting the clinical outcome of some cancer diseases. Two major argyrophilic proteins responsible for the strong staining of cells in interphase are the nucleophosmin (B23) and the nucleolin (C23) nucleolar proteins. Interestingly these two proteins have been described as chromatin associated proteins with histone chaperone activities and also as proteins able to regulate chromatin transcription. Nucleolin seems to be over-expressed in highly proliferative cells and is involved in many aspect of gene expression: chromatin remodeling, DNA recombination and replication, RNA transcription by RNA polymerase I and II, rRNA processing, mRNA stabilisation, cytokinesis and apoptosis. Interestingly, nucleolin is also found on the cell surface in a wide range of cancer cells, a property which is being used as a marker for the diagnosis of cancer and for the development of anti-cancer drugs to inhibit proliferation of cancer cells. In addition to its implication in cancer, nucleolin has been described not only as a marker or as a protein being involved in many diseases like viral infections, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease pathology but also in drug resistance. In this review we will focus on the chromatin associated functions of nucleolin and discuss the functions of nucleolin or its use as diagnostic marker and as a target for therapy
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- Sébastien Storck
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France
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Baydoun H, Duc-Dodon M, Lebrun S, Gazzolo L, Bex F. Regulation of the human T-cell leukemia virus gene expression depends on the localization of regulatory proteins Tax, Rex and p30II in specific nuclear subdomains. Gene 2007; 386:191-201. [PMID: 17071021 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2006] [Revised: 08/31/2006] [Accepted: 09/07/2006] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The human T-cell leukemia virus HTLV-1 encodes regulatory proteins, Tax, Rex and p30(II), which are involved in the control of viral gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. Tax localizes in unique nuclear bodies that contain components of the transcription and splicing complexes. In this work, we studied the relative intracellular localizations of Tax, Rex and p30(II). Run-on transcription assays and immunocytochemistry at light and electron microscopy levels indicated that the Tax nuclear bodies included both de novo transcribed RNA and the RNA polymerase II form that is phosphorylated on its carboxy-terminal domain whereas contacts with chromatin were observed at the periphery of these nuclear bodies. Rex first accumulated in nucleolar foci and then spread across the whole nucleus to display a diffuse and punctuate nucleoplasmic distribution. This distribution of Rex was observed in HTLV-1 transformed lymphocytes and in COS cells expressing the HTLV-1 provirus. Rex colocalized with the cellular export factor CRM-1 in the nucleolar foci as well as in the nucleoplasmic foci that did not overlap with Tax nuclear bodies but were found at the boundaries of the Tax bodies. In addition, we demonstrate that p30(II) interacts with Rex and colocalizes with the Rex/CRM-1 complexes in the nucleoli leading to their clearance from the nucleoplasm. Our results suggest that transcripts originating from Tax-induced activation of gene expression at the boundaries of the Tax bodies are transported out of the nucleus by nucleoplasmic Rex/CRM-1 complexes that are first assembled in nucleolar foci. In addition, p30(II) might exert its negative effect on viral RNA transport by preventing the release of the Rex/CRM-1 complexes from sequestration in nucleolar foci. These data support the idea that the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of HTLV-1 gene expression depends on the concentration of select regulatory complexes at specific area of the nucleus.
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- Hicham Baydoun
- Institute for Microbiological Research J-M Wiame and Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Brussels, Belgium
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Grinstein E, Shan Y, Karawajew L, Snijders PJF, Meijer CJLM, Royer HD, Wernet P. Cell cycle-controlled interaction of nucleolin with the retinoblastoma protein and cancerous cell transformation. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:22223-22235. [PMID: 16698799 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m513335200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Retinoblastoma protein (Rb) is a multifunctional tumor suppressor, frequently inactivated in certain types of human cancer. Nucleolin is an abundant multifunctional phosphoprotein of proliferating and cancerous cells, recently identified as cell cycle-regulated transcription activator, controlling expression of human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18) oncogenes in cervical cancer. Here we find that nucleolin is associated with Rb in intact cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, and the complex formation is mediated by the growth-inhibitory domain of Rb. Association with Rb inhibits the DNA binding function of nucleolin and in consequence the interaction of nucleolin with the HPV18 enhancer, resulting in Rb-mediated repression of the HPV18 oncogenes. The intracellular distribution of nucleolin in epithelial cells is Rb-dependent, and an altered nucleolin localization in human cancerous tissues results from a loss of Rb. Our findings suggest that deregulated nucleolin activity due to a loss of Rb contributes to tumor development in malignant diseases, thus providing further insights into the molecular network for the Rb-mediated tumor suppression.
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- Edgar Grinstein
- Institute of Transplantation Diagnostics and Cellular Therapeutics, Heinrich Heine University Medical Center, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Robert-Rossle-Clinic at the HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Charite Medical School, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany; Center for Advanced European Studies, 53175 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Transplantation Diagnostics and Cellular Therapeutics, Heinrich Heine University Medical Center, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Angelov D, Bondarenko VA, Almagro S, Menoni H, Mongélard F, Hans F, Mietton F, Studitsky VM, Hamiche A, Dimitrov S, Bouvet P. Nucleolin is a histone chaperone with FACT-like activity and assists remodeling of nucleosomes. EMBO J 2006; 25:1669-79. [PMID: 16601700 PMCID: PMC1440837 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2005] [Accepted: 02/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Remodeling machines play an essential role in the control of gene expression, but how their activity is regulated is not known. Here we report that the nuclear protein nucleolin possesses a histone chaperone activity and that this factor greatly enhances the activity of the chromatin remodeling machineries SWI/SNF and ACF. Interestingly, nucleolin is able to induce the remodeling by SWI/SNF of macroH2A, but not of H2ABbd nucleosomes, which are otherwise resistant to remodeling. This new histone chaperone promotes the destabilization of the histone octamer, helping the dissociation of a H2A-H2B dimer, and stimulates the SWI/SNF-mediated transfer of H2A-H2B dimers. Furthermore, nucleolin facilitates transcription through the nucleosome, which is reminiscent of the activity of the FACT complex. This work defines new functions for histone chaperones in chromatin remodeling and regulation of transcription and explains how nucleolin could act on transcription.
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- Dimitar Angelov
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche Cedex, France
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- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche Cedex, France
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Institut André Lwoff, CNRS UPR 9079, Villejuif, France
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- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche Cedex, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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Granneman S, Baserga SJ. Crosstalk in gene expression: coupling and co-regulation of rDNA transcription, pre-ribosome assembly and pre-rRNA processing. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2005; 17:281-6. [PMID: 15901498 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2005.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ribosomes, the large RNPs that translate mRNA into protein in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, are synthesized in a subcompartment of the nucleus, the nucleolus. There, transcription by Pol I yields a pre-rRNA which is modified, cleaved and assembled with ribosomal proteins to make functional ribosomes. Previously, rRNA transcription and pre-rRNA cleavage in eukaryotes were considered to be separable steps in gene expression. However, recent findings suggest that these two steps in gene expression can be concurrent and are co-regulated. Unexpectedly, optimal rDNA transcription requires the presence of a defined subset of components of the pre-rRNA processing machinery.
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- Sander Granneman
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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Ju BG, Solum D, Song EJ, Lee KJ, Rose DW, Glass CK, Rosenfeld MG. Activating the PARP-1 sensor component of the groucho/ TLE1 corepressor complex mediates a CaMKinase IIdelta-dependent neurogenic gene activation pathway. Cell 2005; 119:815-29. [PMID: 15607978 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 228] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2004] [Revised: 10/28/2004] [Accepted: 11/04/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Switching specific patterns of gene repression and activation in response to precise temporal/spatial signals is critical for normal development. Here we report a pathway in which induction of CaMKIIdelta triggers an unexpected switch in the function of the HES1 transcription factor from a TLE-dependent repressor to an activator required for neuronal differentiation. These events are based on activation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase1 (PARP-1) sensor component of the groucho/TLE-corepressor complex mediating dismissal of the corepressor complex from HES1-regulated promoters. In parallel, CaMKIIdelta mediates a required phosphorylation of HES1 to permit neurogenic gene activation, revealing the ability of a specific signaling pathway to modulate both the derepression and the subsequent coactivator recruitment events required for transcriptional activation of a neurogenic program. The identification of PARP-1 as a regulated promoter-specific exchange factor required for activation of specific neurogenic gene programs is likely to be prototypic of similar molecular mechanisms.
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- Bong-Gun Ju
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, Department and School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Kim K, Dimitrova DD, Carta KM, Saxena A, Daras M, Borowiec JA. Novel checkpoint response to genotoxic stress mediated by nucleolin-replication protein a complex formation. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:2463-74. [PMID: 15743838 PMCID: PMC1061594 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.6.2463-2474.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2004] [Revised: 06/14/2004] [Accepted: 12/13/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human replication protein A (RPA), the primary single-stranded DNA-binding protein, was previously found to be inhibited after heat shock by complex formation with nucleolin. Here we show that nucleolin-RPA complex formation is stimulated after genotoxic stresses such as treatment with camptothecin or exposure to ionizing radiation. Complex formation in vitro and in vivo requires a 63-residue glycine-arginine-rich (GAR) domain located at the extreme C terminus of nucleolin, with this domain sufficient to inhibit DNA replication in vitro. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies demonstrate that the nucleolin-RPA interaction after stress occurs both in the nucleoplasm and in the nucleolus. Expression of the GAR domain or a nucleolin mutant (TM) with a constitutive interaction with RPA is sufficient to inhibit entry into S phase. Increasing cellular RPA levels by overexpression of the RPA2 subunit minimizes the inhibitory effects of nucleolin GAR or TM expression on chromosomal DNA replication. The arrest is independent of p53 activation by ATM or ATR and does not involve heightened expression of p21. Our data reveal a novel cellular mechanism that represses genomic replication in response to genotoxic stress by inhibition of an essential DNA replication factor.
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- Kyung Kim
- Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Ave., MSB-383, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Gallagher JEG, Dunbar DA, Granneman S, Mitchell BM, Osheim Y, Beyer AL, Baserga SJ. RNA polymerase I transcription and pre-rRNA processing are linked by specific SSU processome components. Genes Dev 2004; 18:2506-17. [PMID: 15489292 PMCID: PMC529538 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1226604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2004] [Accepted: 08/19/2004] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Sequential events in macromolecular biosynthesis are often elegantly coordinated. The small ribosomal subunit (SSU) processome is a large ribonucleoprotein (RNP) required for processing of precursors to the small subunit RNA, the 18S, of the ribosome. We have found that a subcomplex of SSU processome proteins, the t-Utps, is also required for optimal rRNA transcription in vivo in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The t-Utps are ribosomal chromatin (r-chromatin)-associated, and they exist in a complex in the absence of the U3 snoRNA. Transcription is required neither for the formation of the subcomplex nor for its r-chromatin association. The t-Utps are associated with the pre-18S rRNAs independent of the presence of the U3 snoRNA. This association may thus represent an early step in the formation of the SSU processome. Our results indicate that rRNA transcription and pre-rRNA processing are coordinated via specific components of the SSU processome.
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- Jennifer E G Gallagher
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8024, USA
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Sáez-Vasquez J, Caparros-Ruiz D, Barneche F, Echeverría M. A plant snoRNP complex containing snoRNAs, fibrillarin, and nucleolin-like proteins is competent for both rRNA gene binding and pre-rRNA processing in vitro. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:7284-97. [PMID: 15282326 PMCID: PMC479724 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.16.7284-7297.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2004] [Revised: 03/31/2004] [Accepted: 05/24/2004] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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In eukaryotes the primary cleavage of the precursor rRNA (pre-rRNA) occurs in the 5' external transcribed spacer (5'ETS). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae and animals this cleavage depends on a conserved U3 small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein particle (snoRNP), including fibrillarin, and on other transiently associated proteins such as nucleolin. This large complex can be visualized by electron microscopy bound to the nascent pre-rRNA soon after initiation of transcription. Our group previously described a radish rRNA gene binding activity, NF D, that specifically binds to a cluster of conserved motifs preceding the primary cleavage site in the 5'ETS of crucifer plants including radish, cauliflower, and Arabidopsis thaliana (D. Caparros-Ruiz, S. Lahmy, S. Piersanti, and M. Echeverria, Eur. J. Biochem. 247:981-989, 1997). Here we report the purification and functional characterization of NF D from cauliflower inflorescences. Remarkably NF D also binds to 5'ETS RNA and accurately cleaves it at the primary cleavage site mapped in vivo. NF D is a multiprotein factor of 600 kDa that dissociates into smaller complexes. Two polypeptides of NF D identified by microsequencing are homologues of nucleolin and fibrillarin. The conserved U3 and U14 snoRNAs associated with fibrillarin and required for early pre-rRNA cleavages are also found in NF D. Based on this it is proposed that NF D is a processing complex that assembles on the rDNA prior to its interaction with the nascent pre-rRNA.
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- Julio Sáez-Vasquez
- Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, UMR CNRS-IRD 5096, Université de Perpignan, France
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Sáez-Vasquez J, Caparros-Ruiz D, Barneche F, Echeverría M. Characterization of a crucifer plant pre-rRNA processing complex. Biochem Soc Trans 2004; 32:578-80. [PMID: 15270680 DOI: 10.1042/bst0320578] [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] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In cruciferous plants, the primary pre-rRNA cleavage site (P site) is immediately downstream of four similar, highly conserved sequences (A1, A2, A3 and B) located within the 5′-ETS (5′-external transcribed spacer). In the present study, we describe the characterization of a plant NF D (nuclear factor D) that binds and interacts specifically with this A123BP cluster in the rDNA sequence. NF D is a high-molecular-mass complex containing nucleolin, fibrillarin and U3 and U14 snoRNAs. Furthermore, we show that NF D binds and cleaves pre-rRNA specifically at the P site. Thus we conclude that NF D is a pre-rRNA processing complex that may first assemble on rDNA and then bind nascent pre-rRNA.
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- J Sáez-Vasquez
- LGDP UMR 5096, CNRS-IRD-Université de Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan, France.
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Hemleben V, Volkov RA, Zentgraf U, Medina FJ. Molecular Cell Biology: Organization and Molecular Evolution of rDNA, Nucleolar Dominance, and Nucleolus Structure. PROGRESS IN BOTANY 2004. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18819-0_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Ueno T, Tokunaga K, Sawa H, Maeda M, Chiba J, Kojima A, Hasegawa H, Shoya Y, Sata T, Kurata T, Takahashi H. Nucleolin and the packaging signal, psi, promote the budding of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Microbiol Immunol 2004; 48:111-8. [PMID: 14978336 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2004.tb03496.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gag proteins of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) play a pivotal role in the budding of the virion, in which the zinc finger motifs of the gag proteins recognize the packaging signal of genomic RNA. Nucleolin, an RNA-binding protein, is identified as a cellular protein that binds to murine leukemia virus (MuLV) gag proteins and regulates the viral budding, suggesting that HIV-1 gag proteins, the packaging signal, psi and nucleolin affect the budding of HIV-1. Here we report that nucleolin enhances the release of HIV-1 virions which contain psi. Furthermore, nucleolin and gag proteins form a complex incorporated into virions, and nucleolin promotes the infectivity of HIV-1. Our results suggest that an empty particle which contains neither nucleolin nor the genomic RNA is eliminated during the budding process, and this mechanism is beneficial for escape from the host immune response against HIV-1.
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- Tomonori Ueno
- Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Finger LD, Trantirek L, Johansson C, Feigon J. Solution structures of stem-loop RNAs that bind to the two N-terminal RNA-binding domains of nucleolin. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:6461-72. [PMID: 14602904 PMCID: PMC275560 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2003] [Revised: 09/30/2003] [Accepted: 09/30/2003] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nucleolin, a multi-domain protein involved in ribosome biogenesis, has been shown to bind the consensus sequence (U/G)CCCG(A/G) in the context of a hairpin loop structure (nucleolin recognition element; NRE). Previous studies have shown that the first two RNA-binding domains in nucleolin (RBD12) are responsible for the interaction with the in vitro selected NRE (sNRE). We have previously reported the structures of nucleolin RBD12, sNRE and nucleolin RBD12-sNRE complex. A comparison of free and bound sNRE shows that the NRE loop becomes structured upon binding. From this observation, we hypothesized that the disordered hairpin loop of sNRE facilitates conformational rearrangements when the protein binds. Here, we show that nucleolin RBD12 is also sufficient for sequence- specific binding of two NRE sequences found in pre-rRNA, b1NRE and b2NRE. Structural investigations of the free NREs using NMR spectroscopy show that the b1NRE loop is conformationally heterogeneous, while the b2NRE loop is structured. The b2NRE forms a hairpin capped by a YNMG-like tetraloop. Comparison of the chemical shifts of sNRE and b2NRE in complex with nucleolin RBD12 suggests that the NRE consensus nucleotides adopt a similar conformation. These results show that a disordered NRE consensus sequence is not a prerequisite for nucleolin RBD12 binding.
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- L David Finger
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA
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Bickmore WA, van der Maarel SM. Perturbations of chromatin structure in human genetic disease: recent advances. Hum Mol Genet 2003; 12 Spec No 2:R207-13. [PMID: 12915455 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Gene expression studies in mammals and simpler eukaryotes have highlighted the central role that chromatin structure and modifications play in both the activation and repression of transcription. Aberrant chromatin structure can cause human genetic disease. Here we discuss recent progress in understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie three human genetic diseases linked to perturbations of chromatin structure: ICF syndrome, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and a case of alpha-thalassaemia.
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Yang H, Zhou J, Ochs RL, Henning D, Jin R, Valdez BC. Down-regulation of RNA helicase II/Gu results in the depletion of 18 and 28 S rRNAs in Xenopus oocyte. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:38847-59. [PMID: 12851405 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m302258200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Genetic manipulations have revealed the functions of RNA helicases in ribosomal RNA (rRNA) biogenesis in yeast. However, no report shows the role of an RNA helicase in rRNA formation in higher eukaryotes. This study reports the functional characterization of the frog homologue of nucleolar RNA helicase II/Gu (xGu or DDX21). Down-regulation of xGu in Xenopus laevis oocyte using an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide results in the depletion of 18 and 28 S rRNAs. The disappearance of 18 S rRNA is accompanied by an accumulation of 20 S, indicating that xGu is critical in the processing of 20 to 18 S rRNA. The degradation of 28 S rRNA into fragments smaller than 18 S is also associated with a specific decrease in the level of xGu protein. These effects are reversed in the presence of in vitro synthesized wild type xGu mRNA but not its helicase-deficient mutant form. Similar aberrant rRNA processing is observed when antibody against xGu is microinjected. The involvement of xGu in processing of rRNA is consistent with the localization of Gu protein to the granular and dense fibrillar components of PtK2 cell nucleoli by immunoelectron microscopy. Our results show that xGu is involved in the processing of 20 to 18 S rRNA and contributes to the stability of 28 S rRNA in Xenopus oocytes.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Down-Regulation
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Glutathione Transferase/metabolism
- Kidney/cytology
- Microscopy, Immunoelectron
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense/chemistry
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology
- Oocytes/metabolism
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA Helicases/biosynthesis
- RNA Helicases/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Time Factors
- Tissue Distribution
- Xenopus
- Xenopus laevis
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- Hushan Yang
- Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Kim SK, Srivastava M. Stability of Nucleolin protein as the basis for the differential expression of Nucleolin mRNA and protein during serum starvation. DNA Cell Biol 2003; 22:171-8. [PMID: 12804115 DOI: 10.1089/104454903321655792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nucleolin is a nucleolar phosphoprotein that plays a direct role in ribosome biogenesis. Our aim was to determine how its activity as a growth-promoting factor is coordinated with, if not regulated by, the cell cycle machinery. In serum starting and then rescuing these cells with serum, we found that the protein level did not drop in the same way that the mRNA level did. In addition, although the mRNA level rises during the immediate period during serum rescue, the protein level remained the same. We found that the protein level was maintained after serum starvation as a result of high stability. There was no selective enhanced translation of the remaining amount of Nucleolin mRNA. With regard to the constancy in protein level despite the rise in mRNA level during serum rescue, there is no concomitant degradation of newly synthesized or old protein and synthesis of new protein. Because Nucleolin has been documented to bind mRNA, APP mRNA being one among them, we propose a autoregulatory model in which Nucleolin regulates the translation of Nucleolin mRNA, such that during a period of excess protein, translation is inhibited through direct binding of Nucleolin protein to its mRNA.
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- Steven K Kim
- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, and Institute for Molecular Medicine, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
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Roger B, Moisand A, Amalric F, Bouvet P. Nucleolin provides a link between RNA polymerase I transcription and pre-ribosome assembly. Chromosoma 2003; 111:399-407. [PMID: 12644954 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-002-0221-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2002] [Revised: 10/07/2002] [Accepted: 10/19/2002] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Despite the identification of numerous factors involved in ribosomal RNA synthesis and maturation, the molecular mechanisms of ribosome biogenesis, and in particular the relationship between the different steps, are still largely unknown. We have investigated the consequences of an increased amount of a major nucleolar non-ribosomal protein, nucleolin, in Xenopus laevisstage VI oocytes on the production of ribosomal subunits. We show that a threefold increase in nucleolin leads to the complete absence of pre-rRNA maturation in addition to significant repression of RNA polymerase I transcription. Observation of "Christmas trees" by electron microscopy and analysis of the sedimentation properties of 40S pre-ribosomal particles suggest that an increased amount of nucleolin leads to incorrect packaging of the 40S particle. Interestingly, nucleolin affects the maturation of the 40S particle only when it is present at the time of transcription. These results indicate that nucleolin participates in the co-transcriptional packaging of the pre-rRNA, and that the quality of this packaging will determine whether the 40S precursor undergoes maturation or is degraded. The interaction of nucleolin with nascent pre-rRNA could help the co-transcriptional assembly on pre-rRNA of factors necessary for the subsequent maturation of the pre-ribosomal particle containing the 40S pre-rRNA.
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- Benoit Roger
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, CNRS UMR5089, 205 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex, France
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Alvarez M, Quezada C, Navarro C, Molina A, Bouvet P, Krauskopf M, Vera MI. An increased expression of nucleolin is associated with a physiological nucleolar segregation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 301:152-8. [PMID: 12535655 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)02978-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Nucleolar segregation is the most striking cellular phenotypic feature of cold-acclimatized carp and depicts the cyclical reprogramming that the physiology of the fish undergoes between summer and winter, where a clear differential expression of some nucleolar related genes occurs. We characterized carp nucleolin, a nucleolar protein involved in multiple steps of ribosome biogenesis, and evaluated its expression upon fish acclimatization. We show that the carp cDNA deduced amino acid sequence exhibits the same tripartite structural organization found in other species. Nevertheless, we observed that nucleolin mRNA expression was strongly induced in the cold-adapted carp as was the nuclear protein content, assessed by immunocytochemistry in liver sections. The physiological up-regulation of nucleolin in the cold-acclimatized carp, where rRNA transcription and processing are depressed concomitantly with the nucleolus segregation, is consistent with the notion that nucleolin plays a fundamental role in repressing rRNA synthesis.
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- M Alvarez
- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Millenium Institute for Fundamental and Applied Biology, Universidad Andrés Bello, República 217, 4to Piso, Santiago, Chile
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Tulin A, Chinenov Y, Spradling A. Regulation of chromatin structure and gene activity by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases. Curr Top Dev Biol 2003; 56:55-83. [PMID: 14584726 DOI: 10.1016/s0070-2153(03)01007-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Alexei Tulin
- HHMI Laboratories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland 21210, USA
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Grinstein E, Wernet P, Snijders PJF, Rösl F, Weinert I, Jia W, Kraft R, Schewe C, Schwabe M, Hauptmann S, Dietel M, Meijer CJLM, Royer HD. Nucleolin as activator of human papillomavirus type 18 oncogene transcription in cervical cancer. J Exp Med 2002; 196:1067-78. [PMID: 12391018 PMCID: PMC2194043 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20011053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2001] [Revised: 08/26/2002] [Accepted: 09/16/2002] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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High risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are central to the development of cervical cancer and the deregulated expression of high risk HPV oncogenes is a critical event in this process. Here, we find that the cell protein nucleolin binds in a sequence-specific manner to the HPV18 enhancer. The DNA binding activity of nucleolin is primarily S phase specific, much like the transcription of the E6 and E7 oncoproteins of HPV18 in cervical cancer cells. Antisense inactivation of nucleolin blocks E6 and E7 oncogene transcription and selectively decreases HPV18(+) cervical cancer cell growth. Furthermore, nucleolin controls the chromatin structure of the HPV18 enhancer. In contrast, HPV16 oncogene transcription and proliferation rates of HPV16(+) SiHa cervical cancer cells are independent of nucleolin activity. Moreover, nucleolin expression is altered in HPV18(+) precancerous and cancerous tissue from the cervix uteri. Whereas nucleolin was homogeneously distributed in the nuclei of normal epithelial cells, it showed a speckled nuclear phenotype in HPV18(+) carcinomas. Thus, the host cell protein nucleolin is directly linked to HPV18-induced cervical carcinogenesis.
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- Edgar Grinstein
- Institut für Transplantationsdiagnostik und Zelltherapeutika, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
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