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Dimario PJ. Cell and Molecular Biology of Nucleolar Assembly and Disassembly. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2004; 239:99-178. [PMID: 15464853 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(04)39003-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Nucleoli disassemble in prophase of the metazoan mitotic cycle, and they begin their reassembly (nucleologenesis) in late anaphase?early telophase. Nucleolar disassembly and reassembly were obvious to the early cytologists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and although this has lead to a plethora of literature describing these events, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms regulating nucleolar assembly and disassembly has expanded immensely just within the last 10-15 years. We briefly survey the findings of nineteenth-century cytologists on nucleolar assembly and disassembly, followed by the work of Heitz and McClintock on nucleolar organizers. A primer review of nucleolar structure and functions precedes detailed descriptions of modern molecular and microscopic studies of nucleolar assembly and disassembly. Nucleologenesis is concurrent with the reinitiation of rDNA transcription in telophase. The perichromosomal sheath, prenucleolar bodies, and nucleolar-derived foci serve as repositories for nucleolar processing components used in the previous interphase. Disassembly of the perichromosomal sheath along with the dynamic movements and compositional changes of the prenucleolar bodies and nucleolus-derived foci coincide with reactivation of rDNA synthesis within the chromosomal nucleolar organizers during telophase. Nucleologenesis is considered in various model organisms to provide breadth to our understanding. Nucleolar disassembly occurs at the onset of mitosis primarily as a result of the mitosis-specific phosphorylation of Pol I transcription factors and processing components. Although we have learned much regarding nucleolar assembly and disassembly, many questions still remain, and these questions are as vibrant for us today as early questions were for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cytologists.
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- Patrick J Dimario
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1715, USA
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Ginisty H, Serin G, Ghisolfi-Nieto L, Roger B, Libante V, Amalric F, Bouvet P. Interaction of nucleolin with an evolutionarily conserved pre-ribosomal RNA sequence is required for the assembly of the primary processing complex. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:18845-50. [PMID: 10858445 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m002350200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The first processing event of the precursor ribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) takes place within the 5' external transcribed spacer. This primary processing requires conserved cis-acting RNA sequence downstream from the cleavage site and several nucleic acids (small nucleolar RNAs) and proteins trans-acting factors including nucleolin, a major nucleolar protein. The specific interaction of nucleolin with the pre-rRNA is required for processing in vitro. Xenopus laevis and hamster nucleolin interact with the same pre-rRNA site and stimulate the processing activity of a mouse cell extract. A highly conserved 11-nucleotide sequence located 5-6 nucleotides after the processing site is required for the interaction of nucleolin and processing. In vitro selection experiments with nucleolin have identified an RNA sequence that contains the UCGA motif present in the 11-nucleotide conserved sequence. The interaction of nucleolin with pre-rRNA is required for the formation of an active processing complex. Our findings demonstrate that nucleolin is a key factor for the assembly and maturation of pre-ribosomal ribonucleoparticles.
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- H Ginisty
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, CNRS UMR 5089, 205 route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex, France
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Nucleolin is an abundant protein of the nucleolus. Nucleolar proteins structurally related to nucleolin are found in organisms ranging from yeast to plants and mammals. The association of several structural domains in nucleolin allows the interaction of nucleolin with different proteins and RNA sequences. Nucleolin has been implicated in chromatin structure, rDNA transcription, rRNA maturation, ribosome assembly and nucleo-cytoplasmic transport. Studies of nucleolin over the last 25 years have revealed a fascinating role for nucleolin in ribosome biogenesis. The involvement of nucleolin at multiple steps of this biosynthetic pathway suggests that it could play a key role in this highly integrated process.
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- H Ginisty
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Génétique du CNRS, UPR 9006, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
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Ginisty H, Amalric F, Bouvet P. Nucleolin functions in the first step of ribosomal RNA processing. EMBO J 1998; 17:1476-86. [PMID: 9482744 PMCID: PMC1170495 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.5.1476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The first processing step of precursor ribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) involves a cleavage within the 5' external transcribed spacer. This processing requires sequences downstream of the cleavage site which are perfectly conserved among human, mouse and Xenopus and also several small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs): U3, U14, U17 and E3. In this study, we show that nucleolin, one of the major RNA-binding proteins of the nucleolus, is involved in the early cleavage of pre-rRNA. Nucleolin interacts with the pre-rRNA substrate, and we demonstrate that this interaction is required for the processing reaction in vitro. Furthermore, we show that nucleolin interacts with the U3 snoRNP. Increased levels of nucleolin, in the presence of the U3 snoRNA, activate the processing activity of a S100 cell extract. Our results suggest that the interaction of nucleolin with the pre-rRNA substrate might be a limiting step in the primary processing reaction. Nucleolin is the first identified metazoan proteinaceous factor that interacts directly with the rRNA substrate and that is required for the processing reaction. Potential roles for nucleolin in the primary processing reaction and in ribosome biogenesis are discussed.
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- H Ginisty
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Génétique du CNRS, UPR 9006, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
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A U3 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein-requiring processing event in the 5' external transcribed spacer of Xenopus precursor rRNA. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8413202 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.10.5990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A processing site has been identified within the 5' external transcribed spacer (ETS) of Xenopus laevis and X. borealis pre-RNAs, and this in vivo processing can be reproduced in vitro. It involves a stable and specific association of the pre-rRNA with factors in the cell extract, including at least four RNA-contacting polypeptides, yielding a distinct complex that sediments at 20S. Processing also requires the U3 small nuclear RNA. This processing, at residue +105 of the 713-nucleotide X. laevis 5' ETS, is highly reminiscent of the initial processing cleavage of mouse pre-rRNA within its 3.5-kb 5' ETS, previously thought to be mammal specific. The frog and mouse processing signals share a short essential sequence motif, and mouse factors can faithfully process the frog pre-rRNA. This conservation suggests that this 5' ETS processing site serves an evolutionarily selective function.
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Mougey EB, Pape LK, Sollner-Webb B. A U3 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein-requiring processing event in the 5' external transcribed spacer of Xenopus precursor rRNA. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:5990-8. [PMID: 8413202 PMCID: PMC364653 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.10.5990-5998.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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A processing site has been identified within the 5' external transcribed spacer (ETS) of Xenopus laevis and X. borealis pre-RNAs, and this in vivo processing can be reproduced in vitro. It involves a stable and specific association of the pre-rRNA with factors in the cell extract, including at least four RNA-contacting polypeptides, yielding a distinct complex that sediments at 20S. Processing also requires the U3 small nuclear RNA. This processing, at residue +105 of the 713-nucleotide X. laevis 5' ETS, is highly reminiscent of the initial processing cleavage of mouse pre-rRNA within its 3.5-kb 5' ETS, previously thought to be mammal specific. The frog and mouse processing signals share a short essential sequence motif, and mouse factors can faithfully process the frog pre-rRNA. This conservation suggests that this 5' ETS processing site serves an evolutionarily selective function.
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- E B Mougey
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Mougey EB, O'Reilly M, Osheim Y, Miller OL, Beyer A, Sollner-Webb B. The terminal balls characteristic of eukaryotic rRNA transcription units in chromatin spreads are rRNA processing complexes. Genes Dev 1993; 7:1609-19. [PMID: 8339936 DOI: 10.1101/gad.7.8.1609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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When spread chromatin is visualized by electron microscopy, active rRNA genes have a characteristic Christmas tree appearance: From a DNA "trunk" extend closely packed "branches" of nascent transcripts whose ends are decorated with terminal "balls." These terminal balls have been known for more than two decades, are shown in most biology textbooks, and are reported in hundreds of papers, yet their nature has remained elusive. Here, we show that a rRNA-processing signal in the 5'-external transcribed spacer (ETS) of the Xenopus laevis ribosomal primary transcript forms a large, processing-related complex with factors of the Xenopus oocyte, analogous to 5' ETS processing complexes found in other vertebrate cell types. Using mutant rRNA genes, we find that the same rRNA residues are required for this biochemically defined complex formation and for terminal ball formation, analyzed electron microscopically after injection of these cloned genes into Xenopus oocytes. This, plus other presented evidence, implies that rRNA terminal balls in Xenopus, and by inference, also in the multitude of other species where they have been observed, are the ultrastructural visualization of an evolutionarily conserved 5' ETS processing complex that forms on the nascent rRNA.
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- E B Mougey
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Puvion-Dutilleul F, Pierron G. Localization by high resolution in situ hybridization of the ribosomal minichromosomes during the nucleolar cycle of Physarum polycephalum. Exp Cell Res 1992; 203:354-64. [PMID: 1459200 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(92)90009-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We have used biotinylated rDNA probes to localize by in situ hybridization the extrachromosomal genes for ribosomal RNA in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. We established conditions that allow for highly specific hybridization at the ultrastructural level and determined that the 60-kb palindromic rDNA molecules are confined to the nucleolus in interphase. Our study definitively locates these extrachromosomal genes in mitosis in the form of thin DNA fibers contained within nucleolar remnants. We further show that these rDNA minichromosomes do not condense and that they segregate as entities independent of the condensed chromosomal DNA. In telophase, these minichromosomes migrate from the poles toward the equatorial region of the nucleus in a direction opposite that of the chromosomes. Our results illustrate the discontinuous nature of the nucleolar organizing region in Physarum.
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- F Puvion-Dutilleul
- Laboratoire de Biologie et Ultrastructure du Noyau, UPR 272-CNRS, Villejuif, France
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The first pre-rRNA-processing event occurs in a large complex: analysis by gel retardation, sedimentation, and UV cross-linking. Mol Cell Biol 1990. [PMID: 2388630 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.10.9.4920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The first processing event that mouse pre-rRNA undergoes occurs within the external transcribed spacer and is efficiently reproduced in vitro. Analysis with nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels revealed the formation of heparin-resistant complexes of retarded electrophoretic mobility on the substrate rRNA. The specificity of these complexes was demonstrated by their elimination due to competition with processing-competent, but not with processing-incompetent, rRNAs. Furthermore, complex formation, like the processing cleavage, required only 28 nucleotides of rRNA sequence adjacent to the processing site but was stimulated by additional downstream conserved sequences. These processing complexes formed in a time-dependent manner, and once assembled, they were stable to challenge by competitor rRNA and remained on the processed rRNA. Their sedimentation coefficient was approximately 20S. UV cross-linking studies with 4-thiouridine-substituted rRNA have identified six polypeptides, 52 to 250 kilodaltons, that are specifically bound to the rRNA processing substrate.
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Kass S, Sollner-Webb B. The first pre-rRNA-processing event occurs in a large complex: analysis by gel retardation, sedimentation, and UV cross-linking. Mol Cell Biol 1990; 10:4920-31. [PMID: 2388630 PMCID: PMC361110 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.10.9.4920-4931.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The first processing event that mouse pre-rRNA undergoes occurs within the external transcribed spacer and is efficiently reproduced in vitro. Analysis with nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels revealed the formation of heparin-resistant complexes of retarded electrophoretic mobility on the substrate rRNA. The specificity of these complexes was demonstrated by their elimination due to competition with processing-competent, but not with processing-incompetent, rRNAs. Furthermore, complex formation, like the processing cleavage, required only 28 nucleotides of rRNA sequence adjacent to the processing site but was stimulated by additional downstream conserved sequences. These processing complexes formed in a time-dependent manner, and once assembled, they were stable to challenge by competitor rRNA and remained on the processed rRNA. Their sedimentation coefficient was approximately 20S. UV cross-linking studies with 4-thiouridine-substituted rRNA have identified six polypeptides, 52 to 250 kilodaltons, that are specifically bound to the rRNA processing substrate.
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- S Kass
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185
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Kass S, Tyc K, Steitz JA, Sollner-Webb B. The U3 small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein functions in the first step of preribosomal RNA processing. Cell 1990; 60:897-908. [PMID: 2156625 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(90)90338-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 370] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The first cleavage in mammalian pre-rRNA maturation occurs near the 5' end within the 5' external transcribed spacer. Using mouse cell extracts, we show that this processing is abolished by micrococcal nuclease pretreatment. Autoantibodies that recognize the U3, U8, and U13 snRNPs (anti-fibrillarin) deplete processing activity from the extract and selectively immunoprecipitate both rRNA substrates and processing products from the reaction. Specific involvement of the U3 snRNP is demonstrated by native gel electrophoresis of the processing reaction followed by Northern blotting and by oligonucleotide-directed RNAase H abolition of processing activity. Our identification of U3 function is discussed with respect to the molecular basis of pre-rRNA recognition by the U3 snRNP, possible roles of U3 and other nucleolar snRNPs in rRNA processing, and the morphological organization of the nucleolus and the ribosomal transcription complex.
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- S Kass
- Human Genetics Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Stroke IL, Weiner AM. The 5' end of U3 snRNA can be crosslinked in vivo to the external transcribed spacer of rat ribosomal RNA precursors. J Mol Biol 1989; 210:497-512. [PMID: 2614831 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(89)90126-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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From previous work it was known that U3 RNA is hydrogen bonded to nucleolar 28 S to 35 S RNA and can be covalently crosslinked to RNA of greater than 28 S by irradiation in vivo with long-wave ultraviolet light in the presence of 4'-aminomethyl-4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (AMT psoralen). Here we use a novel sandwich blot technique to identify these large nucleolar RNA species as rRNA precursors and to map the site(s) of crosslinking in vivo. The crosslink occurs between one or more residues near the 5' end of U3 RNA and a 380 nucleotide region of the rat rRNA external transcribed spacer (ETS1). We have sequenced this region of the rat ETS and we show that it includes an RNA-processing site analogous to those previously mapped to approximately 3.5 kb upstream from the 5' end of mouse and human 18 S rRNAs.
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- I L Stroke
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510
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Primary processing of mammalian rRNA involves two adjacent cleavages and is not species specific. Mol Cell Biol 1987. [PMID: 3670298 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.7.8.2891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The primary transcript of the mouse rRNA gene is rapidly processed at nucleotide approximately +650 both in vivo and in vitro. Using run-off transcription in a mouse cell extract as well as S1 nuclease and primer extension analysis of cellular RNA, we demonstrated that this primary processing actually results in the formation of two species of downstream RNA which differ in length by approximately 6 nucleotides, indicating the existence of two closely positioned alternative processing sites. The 200-base-pair region just 3' to the mouse processing site has a striking 80% sequence homology with a region of the human rRNA external transcribed spacer, and S1 nuclease analysis of human cellular RNA has demonstrated that an analogous rRNA processing occurs at the 5' border of the homologous human region. Unlike rDNA transcriptional initiation, however, the primary rRNA processing is not highly species specific, for the transcript of a chimeric gene containing the human processing region adjacent to a mouse rDNA promoter was synthesized and correctly processed in a mouse cell extract. This result confirms that mouse and human rRNA undergo a common primary processing event which is evidently directed by sequences within the 200-base-pair conserved sequence region.
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Kass S, Craig N, Sollner-Webb B. Primary processing of mammalian rRNA involves two adjacent cleavages and is not species specific. Mol Cell Biol 1987; 7:2891-8. [PMID: 3670298 PMCID: PMC367908 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.7.8.2891-2898.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The primary transcript of the mouse rRNA gene is rapidly processed at nucleotide approximately +650 both in vivo and in vitro. Using run-off transcription in a mouse cell extract as well as S1 nuclease and primer extension analysis of cellular RNA, we demonstrated that this primary processing actually results in the formation of two species of downstream RNA which differ in length by approximately 6 nucleotides, indicating the existence of two closely positioned alternative processing sites. The 200-base-pair region just 3' to the mouse processing site has a striking 80% sequence homology with a region of the human rRNA external transcribed spacer, and S1 nuclease analysis of human cellular RNA has demonstrated that an analogous rRNA processing occurs at the 5' border of the homologous human region. Unlike rDNA transcriptional initiation, however, the primary rRNA processing is not highly species specific, for the transcript of a chimeric gene containing the human processing region adjacent to a mouse rDNA promoter was synthesized and correctly processed in a mouse cell extract. This result confirms that mouse and human rRNA undergo a common primary processing event which is evidently directed by sequences within the 200-base-pair conserved sequence region.
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- S Kass
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Fujiwara H, Ishikawa H. Structure of the Bombyx mori rDNA: initiation site for its transcription. Nucleic Acids Res 1987; 15:1245-58. [PMID: 3029701 PMCID: PMC340521 DOI: 10.1093/nar/15.3.1245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The initiation site of rDNA transcription in Bombyx mori was determined to be located at 909bp upstream from the 5'- end of mature 18s rRNA by S1-nuclease mapping and primer extension experiment. An in vitro transcription system, which was constructed using posterior silk glands of Bombyx larvae, initiated the transcription of cloned rDNA at exactly the same site as determined for the in vivo transcription above. The primary transcript seemed to be processed at about 200b downstream of the initiation site both in vivo and in vitro. Sequence analyses of the flanking region of the initiation site revealed that short repetitive sequences are widely distributed throughout the NTS region, and that a highly AT-rich region resides immediately upstream of the initiation region.
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White TC, Rudenko G, Borst P. Three small RNAs within the 10 kb trypanosome rRNA transcription unit are analogous to domain VII of other eukaryotic 28S rRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res 1986; 14:9471-89. [PMID: 3797245 PMCID: PMC311971 DOI: 10.1093/nar/14.23.9471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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We have localized the six ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) which encode the 28S rRNA region of Trypanosoma brucei. These six rRNAs include two large rRNAs, 28S alpha (approx. 1840 nt) and 28S beta (approx. 1570 nt), and four small rRNAs of approximate sizes 220, 180, 140 and 70 nt. Three of these four small rRNAs (180, 70 and 140) are found at the 3' end of the 28S rRNAs region. Sequence analysis of this area shows that these three small rRNAs encode Domain VII, the last domain of secondary structure in the 28S rRNAs of eukaryotes. Hybridization of labeled nascent RNA to the cloned repeat unit and S1 nuclease protection analysis of putative precursors show that transcription initiates approximately 1.2 kb upstream of the 18S rRNA and terminates after the last small rRNA (140) at the 3' end of the 28S rRNA region. Analysis of three putative rRNA precursors suggests that the small rRNAs are not processed from the primary transcript until after the usual processing of the 5.8S rRNA region.
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