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Zhou X, Feng X, Mao H, Li M, Xu F, Hu K, Guang S. RdRP-synthesized antisense ribosomal siRNAs silence pre-rRNA via the nuclear RNAi pathway. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2017; 24:258-269. [DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2016] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Leser K, Awe S, Barckmann B, Renkawitz-Pohl R, Rathke C. The bromodomain-containing protein tBRD-1 is specifically expressed in spermatocytes and is essential for male fertility. Biol Open 2012; 1:597-606. [PMID: 23213453 PMCID: PMC3509448 DOI: 10.1242/bio.20121255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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By a conserved cellular differentiation process, spermatogenesis leads to formation of haploid sperm for successful reproduction. In Drosophila and in mammals, post-meiotic spermatid differentiation depends on several translationally repressed and stored mRNAs that are often expressed exclusively in the testis through a cell type specific transcriptional program. In Drosophila, the mRNAs of proteins required for post-meiotic chromatin reorganisation, like ProtB and Mst77F, are transcribed in meiotic spermatocytes and subjected to translational repression for days. Transcription of many of these translationally repressed mRNAs depends on testis-specific homologs of TATA box binding protein-associated factors (tTAFs). Here, we identified the testis-specific bromodomain protein, tBRD-1, that is only expressed in primary spermatocytes. Bromodomain proteins are able to recognise and bind acetylated histones and non-histone proteins. We generated tbrd-1 mutant flies and observed that function of tBRD-1 is required for male fertility. tBRD-1 partially colocalised with tTAFs, TAF1 and Polycomb to a Fibrillarin-deficient region within the spermatocyte nucleolus. The nucleolar localisation of tBRD-1 depended on tTAF function but not the other way round. Further, we could show that ectopically expressed tBRD-1-eGFP is able to bind to the interbands of polytene chromosomes. By inhibitor treatment of cultured testis we observed that sub-cellular localisation of tBRD-1 may depend on the acetylation status of primary spermatocytes.
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- Katja Leser
- Philipps-Universität Marburg, Fachbereich Biologie, Entwicklungsbiologie , Karl-von-Frisch Strasse 8, 35043 Marburg , Germany
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Cremona N, Potter K, Wise JA. A meiotic gene regulatory cascade driven by alternative fates for newly synthesized transcripts. Mol Biol Cell 2010; 22:66-77. [PMID: 21148298 PMCID: PMC3016978 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e10-05-0448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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To determine the relative importance of transcriptional regulation versus RNA processing and turnover during the transition from proliferation to meiotic differentiation in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we analyzed temporal profiles and effects of RNA surveillance factor mutants on expression of 32 meiotic genes. A comparison of nascent transcription with steady-state RNA accumulation reveals that the vast majority of these genes show a lag between maximal RNA synthesis and peak RNA accumulation. During meiosis, total RNA levels parallel 3' processing, which occurs in multiple, temporally distinct waves that peak from 3 to 6 h after meiotic induction. Most early genes and one middle gene, mei4, share a regulatory mechanism in which a specialized RNA surveillance factor targets newly synthesized transcripts for destruction. Mei4p, a member of the forkhead transcription factor family, in turn regulates a host of downstream genes. Remarkably, a spike in transcription is observed for less than one-third of the genes surveyed, and even these show evidence of RNA-level regulation. In aggregate, our findings lead us to propose that a regulatory cascade driven by changes in processing and stability of newly synthesized transcripts operates alongside the well-known transcriptional cascade as fission yeast cells enter meiosis.
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- Nicole Cremona
- Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology and Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Stepiński D. Immunodetection of nucleolar proteins and ultrastructure of nucleoli of soybean root meristematic cells treated with chilling stress and after recovery. PROTOPLASMA 2009; 235:77-89. [PMID: 19241118 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-009-0033-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2008] [Accepted: 01/19/2009] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The nucleolar proteins, fibrillarin and nucleophosmin, have been identified immunofluorescently in the root meristematic cells of soybean seedlings under varying experimental conditions: at 25 degrees C (control), chilling at 10 degrees C for 3 h and 4 days and recovery from the chilling stress at 25 degrees C. In each experimental variant, the immunofluorescence signals were present solely at the nucleolar territories. Fluorescent staining for both proteins was mainly in the shape of circular domains that are assumed to correspond to the dense fibrillar component of the nucleoli. The fewest fluorescent domains were observed in the nucleoli of chilled plants, and the highest number was observed in the plants recovered after chilling. This difference in the number of circular domains in the nucleoli of each variant may indicate various levels of these proteins in each variant. Both the number of circular domains and the level of these nucleolar proteins changed with changes in the transcriptional activity of the nucleoli, with the more metabolically active cell having higher numbers of active areas in the nucleolus and higher levels of nucleolar proteins, and conversely. Electron microscopic studies revealed differences in the ultrastructure of the nucleoli in all experimental variants and confirmed that the number of fibrillar centres surrounded by dense fibrillar component was the lowest in the nucleoli of chilled plants, and the highest in the nucleoli of recovered seedlings.
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- Dariusz Stepiński
- Department of Cytophysiology, University of Łódź, Pilarskiego 14, 90-231, Łódź, Poland.
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Shimada T, Yamashita A, Yamamoto M. The fission yeast meiotic regulator Mei2p forms a dot structure in the horse-tail nucleus in association with the sme2 locus on chromosome II. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:2461-9. [PMID: 12808043 PMCID: PMC194894 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-11-0738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Fission yeast Mei2p is an RNA-binding protein essential for induction of both premeiotic DNA synthesis and first meiotic division. Mei2p forms a dot structure at an apparently fixed position in the horse-tail nucleus during meiotic prophase. This dot formation requires a meiosis-specific RNA species, meiRNA, which is indispensable for meiosis I, and the emergence of the dot is an indicator of the ability of the cell to perform meiosis I. Herein, we have sought the identity of this dot. Analyses using chromosome segregation in haploid meiosis, reciprocal translocation of chromosomes, and gene translocation have led us to conclude that the Mei2p dot is in association with the sme2 gene on the short arm of chromosome II, which encodes meiRNA. Transcripts of sme2, rather than the DNA sequence of the gene, seem to be the determinant of the localization of the Mei2p dot. However, evidence suggests that the dot may not be a simple reflection of the attachment of Mei2p to meiRNA undergoing transcription. We speculate that the Mei2p dot is a specialized structure, either to foster the assembly of Mei2p and meiRNA or to perform some unidentified function indispensable for meiosis I.
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- Tadayuki Shimada
- Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Ghosh S, Ghosh R, Das P, Chattopadhyay D. Expression and purification of recombinant Giardia fibrillarin and its interaction with small nuclear RNAs. Protein Expr Purif 2001; 21:40-8. [PMID: 11162385 DOI: 10.1006/prep.2000.1319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Giardia lamblia, the ancient eukaryote does not have nucleolus but produces the fibrillarin protein that may be used for pre-rRNA processing. The nucleoli of eukaryotes contain complex population of small nucleolar RNAs, known as snoRNAs, several of which are required for rRNA processing. This report describes the full-length cloning of fibrillarin gene from Giardia lamblia, using RTPCR and the production of recombinant fibrillarin protein in Escherichia coli strain BL21 (DE3) as N-terminal His-tag protein. The condition for production of soluble protein was standardized. The expressed protein was purified by using Ni-chelation chromatography and used for functional studies. The small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs), RNA D, RNA J, and RNA H, containing box C, box D, and box C/D, respectively, of Giardia were also cloned by RTPCR. Antibody raised against the recombinant protein was used to identify the fibrillarin in giardial nuclear extract. The interaction of snRNAs with recombinant fibrillarin was followed using North-Western hybridization. Gel electrophoresis mobility shift assay demonstrated that bacterially expressed protein may participate in the in vitro interaction with RNA J, RNA H, and RNA D. Our results indicate that the recombinant fibrillarin by itself is able to bind and does not require the involvement of any other protein for this binding to the three snRNAs.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism
- Cloning, Molecular/methods
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- Escherichia coli
- Giardia lamblia/genetics
- Giardia lamblia/physiology
- RNA, Protozoan/genetics
- RNA, Protozoan/metabolism
- RNA, Small Nuclear/chemistry
- RNA, Small Nuclear/genetics
- RNA, Small Nuclear/metabolism
- RNA, Small Nucleolar/chemistry
- RNA, Small Nucleolar/metabolism
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Ribonucleoproteins/chemistry
- Ribonucleoproteins/metabolism
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- S Ghosh
- Department of Biochemistry, Dr. B. C. Guha Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Calcutta, India
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Snaar S, Wiesmeijer K, Jochemsen AG, Tanke HJ, Dirks RW. Mutational analysis of fibrillarin and its mobility in living human cells. J Cell Biol 2000; 151:653-62. [PMID: 11062265 PMCID: PMC2185578 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.151.3.653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Cajal bodies (CBs) are subnuclear organelles that contain components of a number of distinct pathways in RNA transcription and RNA processing. CBs have been linked to other subnuclear organelles such as nucleoli, but the reason for the presence of nucleolar proteins such as fibrillarin in CBs remains uncertain. Here, we use full-length fibrillarin and truncated fibrillarin mutants fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP) to demonstrate that specific structural domains of fibrillarin are required for correct intranuclear localization of fibrillarin to nucleoli and CBs. The second spacer domain and carboxy terminal alpha-helix domain in particular appear to target fibrillarin, respectively, to the nucleolar transcription centers and CBs. The presence of the RNP domain seems to be a prerequisite for correct targeting of fibrillarin. Time-lapse confocal microscopy of human cells that stably express fibrillarin-GFP shows that CBs fuse and split, albeit at low frequencies. Recovered fluorescence of fibrillarin-GFP in nucleoli and CBs after photobleaching indicates that it is highly mobile in both organelles (estimated diffusion constant approximately 0.02 microm(2) s(-1)), and has a significantly larger mobile fraction in CBs than in nucleoli.
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MESH Headings
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
- Cell Nucleolus/chemistry
- Cell Nucleolus/metabolism
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism
- Coiled Bodies/chemistry
- Coiled Bodies/metabolism
- Diffusion
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Motion
- Mutation/genetics
- Protein Sorting Signals/genetics
- Protein Sorting Signals/physiology
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Deletion/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- S Snaar
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Sylvius Laboratories, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands
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Ding DQ, Tomita Y, Yamamoto A, Chikashige Y, Haraguchi T, Hiraoka Y. Large-scale screening of intracellular protein localization in living fission yeast cells by the use of a GFP-fusion genomic DNA library. Genes Cells 2000; 5:169-90. [PMID: 10759889 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00317.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Intracellular localization is an important part of the characterization of a gene product. In an attempt to search for genes based on the intracellular localization of their products, we constructed a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-fusion genomic DNA library of S. pombe. RESULTS We constructed the S. pombe GFP-fusion genomic DNA library by fusing, in all three reading frames, random fragments of genomic DNA to the 5' end of the GFP gene in such a way that expression of potential GFP-fusion proteins would be under the control of the own promoters contained in the genomic DNA fragments. Fission yeast cells were transformed with this plasmid library, and microscopic screening of 49 845 transformants yielded 6954 transformants which exhibited GFP fluorescence, of which 728 transformants showed fluorescence localized to distinct intracellular structures such as the nucleus, the nuclear membrane, and cytoskeletal structures. Plasmids were isolated from 516 of these transformants, and a determination of their DNA sequences identified 250 independent genes. The intracellular localizations of the 250 GFP-fusion constructs was categorized as an image database; using this database, DNA sequences can be searched for based on the localizations of their products. CONCLUSIONS A number of new intracellular structural components were found in this library. The library of GFP-fusion constructs also provides useful fluorescent markers for various intracellular structures and cellular activities, which can be readily used for microscopic observation in living cells.
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- D Q Ding
- Structural Biology Section and CREST Research Project, Kansai Advanced Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory, 588-2 Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-2492, Japan
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Maiorano D, Brimage LJ, Leroy D, Kearsey SE. Functional conservation and cell cycle localization of the Nhp2 core component of H + ACA snoRNPs in fission and budding yeasts. Exp Cell Res 1999; 252:165-74. [PMID: 10502409 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We report the identification of a novel nucleolar protein from fission yeast, p17(nhp2), which is homologous to the recently identified Nhp2p core component of H+ACA snoRNPs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We show that the fission yeast p17(nhp2) localizes to the nucleolus in live S. cerevisiae or Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells and is functionally conserved since the fission yeast gene can complement a deletion of the NHP2 gene in budding yeast. Analysis of p17(nhp2) during the mitotic cell cycles of living fission and budding yeast cells shows that this protein, and by implication H+ACA snoRNPs, remains localized with nucleolar material during mitosis, although the gross organization of partitioning of p17(nhp2) during anaphase is different in a comparison of the two yeasts. During anaphase in S. pombe p17(nhp2) trails segregating chromatin, while in S. cerevisiae the protein segregates alongside bulk chromatin. The pattern of segregation comparing haploid and diploid S. cerevisiae cells suggests that p17(nhp2) is closely associated with the rDNA during nuclear division.
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- D Maiorano
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
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Jannatipour M, Rokeach LA. A Schizosaccharomyces pombe gene encoding a novel polypeptide with a predicted alpha-helical rod structure found in the myosin and intermediate-filament families of proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1399:67-72. [PMID: 9714741 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(98)00097-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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We have identified a Schizosaccharomyces pombe gene encoding a 461 amino acid polypeptide containing a predicted alpha-helical rod domain found in filamentous proteins. This gene, here designated noc1, is located immediately upstream from cnx1, the gene encoding the S. pombe homologue of mammalian calnexin, an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone [M. Jannatipour, L.A. Rokeach, J. Biol. Chem. 270 (1995) 4845-4853.]. Transcription of noc1 is divergent from that of cnx1. Northern blot analysis identified a single mRNA of approx. 2 kb whose expression was increased by heat shock and growth in the presence of beta-mercaptoethanol and 2-deoxyglucose.
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- M Jannatipour
- Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Struck C, Siebels C, Rommel O, Wernitz M, Hahn M. The plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase from the biotrophic rust fungus Uromyces fabae: molecular characterization of the gene (PMA1) and functional expression of the enzyme in yeast. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 1998; 11:458-65. [PMID: 9612944 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.1998.11.6.458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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To study the molecular basis of biotrophic nutrient uptake by plant parasitic rust fungi, the gene (Uf-PMA1) encoding the plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase from Uromyces fabae was isolated. Uf-PMA1 exists probably as a single gene. However, two nearly identical sequences were identified; the similarity apparently is due to two Uf-PMA1 alleles in the dikaryotic hyphae. Multiple Uf-PMA1 transcripts were observed during early rust development, and reduced amounts of a single Uf-PMA1 mRNA were observed in haustoria and rust-infected leaves. This is in contrast to elevated enzyme activity in haustoria compared to germinated spores (C. Struck, M. Hahn, and K. Mendgen. Fungal Genet. Biol. 20:30-35, 1996). Unexpectedly, the PMA1-encoded rust protein is more similar to H(+)-ATPases from plants (55% identity) than from ascomycetous fungi (36% identity). When the rust PMA1 cDNA was expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, both the wild-type enzyme and a mutant derivative (delta 76) deleted for the 76 C-terminal amino acids were able to support growth of a yeast strain lacking its own H(+)-ATPases. Compared to the wild-type, the delta 76 mutant enzyme displayed increased affinity to ATP, a higher vanadate sensitivity, and a more alkaline pH optimum. These results indicate that the C-terminal region of the rust enzyme exhibits auto-regulatory properties.
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- C Struck
- Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Germany
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Narcisi EM, Glover CV, Fechheimer M. Fibrillarin, a conserved pre-ribosomal RNA processing protein of Giardia. J Eukaryot Microbiol 1998; 45:105-11. [PMID: 9495039 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1998.tb05077.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The flagellated protozoan Giardia has been shown by 16S rRNA sequence analysis to be one of the most primitive of the eukaryotes. A gene encoding the protein fibrillarin, a pre-rRNA processing protein implicated in rRNA methylation and ribosome assembly, has been isolated. A genomic DNA fragment 1,240 base pairs long containing an open reading frame of 981 base pairs (327 amino acids) was sequenced. The deduced protein sequence of 35.3 kDa is similar to other known fibrillarin sequences. The Giardia sequence includes the amino terminal glycine/arginine rich domain characteristic of eukaryotic fibrillarins but is unique in having a large number of acidic residues in this domain. Phylogenetic analysis of the available fibrillarin sequences is consistent with the assignment of Giardia to a position close to the most primitive of the eukaryotes. A monoclonal antibody to yeast fibrillarin crossreacts with a 36 kDa polypeptide from Giardia on western blots and diffusely stains both nuclei of the organism by immunofluorescence microscopy. This result is consistent with the absence of well defined nucleoli in this organism. The evolutionary conservation of fibrillarin suggests an important function for this protein in ribosome biosynthesis, and this function appears to be maintained from the archaebacteria, which lack a nucleus, to Giardia, which contains a nucleus but lacks a prominent nucleolus, to higher mammals, which have both nucleus and nucleolus.
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- E M Narcisi
- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
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Peculis BA. The sequence of the 5' end of the U8 small nucleolar RNA is critical for 5.8S and 28S rRNA maturation. Mol Cell Biol 1997; 17:3702-13. [PMID: 9199304 PMCID: PMC232222 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.7.3702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Ribosome biogenesis in eucaryotes involves many small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein particles (snoRNP), a few of which are essential for processing pre-rRNA. Previously, U8 snoRNA was shown to play a critical role in pre-rRNA processing, being essential for accumulation of mature 28S and 5.8S rRNAs. Here, evidence which identifies a functional site of interaction on the U8 RNA is presented. RNAs with mutations, insertions, or deletions within the 5'-most 15 nucleotides of U8 do not function in pre-rRNA processing. In vivo competitions in Xenopus oocytes with 2'O-methyl oligoribonucleotides have confirmed this region as a functional site of a base-pairing interaction. Cross-species hybrid molecules of U8 RNA show that this region of the U8 snoRNP is necessary for processing of pre-rRNA but not sufficient to direct efficient cleavage of the pre-rRNA substrate; the structure or proteins comprising, or recruited by, the U8 snoRNP modulate the efficiency of cleavage. Intriguingly, these 15 nucleotides have the potential to base pair with the 5' end of 28S rRNA in a region where, in the mature ribosome, the 5' end of 28S interacts with the 3' end of 5.8S. The 28S-5.8S interaction is evolutionarily conserved and critical for pre-rRNA processing in Xenopus laevis. Taken together these data strongly suggest that the 5' end of U8 RNA has the potential to bind pre-rRNA and in so doing, may regulate or alter the pre-rRNA folding pathway. The rest of the U8 particle may then facilitate cleavage or recruitment of other factors which are essential for pre-rRNA processing.
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- B A Peculis
- Genetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1766, USA.
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David E, McNeil JB, Basile V, Pearlman RE. An unusual fibrillarin gene and protein: structure and functional implications. Mol Biol Cell 1997; 8:1051-61. [PMID: 9201715 PMCID: PMC305713 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.8.6.1051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The diploid germinal nucleus of the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila is unusual among eukaryotes in that it encodes a single copy of the gene for rRNA allowing identification of cis-acting mutations in rDNA affecting rRNA structure, function, and processing. The generally conserved nucleolar protein fibrillarin has been characterized from a number of systems and is involved in pre-rRNA processing. We have demonstrated that Tetrahymena has fibrillarin and have analyzed the cDNA and the genomic DNA encoding this protein. The derived amino acid sequence of the N-terminal region of Tetrahymena fibrillarin shows little similarity with the generally highly conserved glycine/arginine-rich N-terminal domain of other eukaryotic fibrillarins. The remainder of the amino acid sequence of the molecule is more conserved. Polyclonal antibodies generated against the full-length Tetrahymena fibrillarin expressed in bacteria recognize a protein of M(r) approximately 32,000 in whole-cell or nucleolar preparations. Immunocytochemistry localizes fibrillarin to nucleoli in the somatic macronuclei of vegetative cells. Transformation experiments demonstrate that fibrillarin is an essential protein in Tetrahymena. The Tetrahymena fibrillarin is expressed but does not complement a NOP1 null mutation when transformed into the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, indicating less functional conservation among fibrillarins than previously suggested.
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- E David
- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Javerzat JP, Cranston G, Allshire RC. Fission yeast genes which disrupt mitotic chromosome segregation when overexpressed. Nucleic Acids Res 1996; 24:4676-83. [PMID: 8972853 PMCID: PMC146309 DOI: 10.1093/nar/24.23.4676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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An interference assay has been devised in Schizosaccharomyces pombe to rapidly identify and clone genes involved in chromosome segregation. Random S.pombe cDNAs were overexpressed from an inducible promoter in a strain carrying an additional, non-essential minichromosome. Overexpression of cDNAs derived from four genes, two known (nda3+and ubc4+, encoding beta-tubulin and a ubiquitin conjugating enzyme, respectively) and two unknown, named mlo2+ and mlo3+ (missegregation & lethal when over expressed) caused phenotypes consistent with a failure to segregate chromosomes. Full overexpression of all four cDNAs was lethal. Cells overexpressing nda3+ and ubc4+ cDNAs arrested with condensed unsegregated chromosomes and cells overexpressing mlo2+ displayed an asymmetric distribution of nuclear chromatin. Sublethal levels of overexpression of nda3+, ubc4+ and mlo2+ cDNAs caused elevated rates of minichromosome loss. A third cDNA mlo3+, displayed no increase in the frequency of minichromosome loss at sublethal levels of overexpression but full overexpression caused a complete failure to segregate chromosomes. Our results confirm the assumption that beta-tubulin overexpression is lethal in S.pombe, implicate ubc4+ in the control of metaphase-anaphase transition in fission yeast and finally identify two new genes, mlo2+and mlo3+, likely to play an important role for chromosome transmission fidelity in mitosis.
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- J P Javerzat
- M.R.C. Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
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Cuadros-Fernández JM, Esponda P. Immunocytochemical localisation of the nucleolar protein fibrillarin and RNA polymerase I during mouse early embryogenesis. ZYGOTE 1996; 4:49-58. [PMID: 8735370 DOI: 10.1017/s0967199400002884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We have employed immunocytochemical procedures to localise the nucleolar protein fibrillarin and the enzyme RNA polymerase I in the numerous dense fibrillar bodies (nucleolar precursor bodies) which appear in the nuclei of mammalian early embryos. The aim of this study was to search for relationships between the localisation of these proteins, the changes in the structure of the nucleolar precursor bodies and the resumption of rRNA gene transcription during mouse early embryogenesis. Three human autoimmune sera which recognised fibrillarin and a rabbit antiserum created against RNA polymerase I were employed for fluorescence and electron microscopic immunocytochemical assays. A statistical analysis was also applied. Immunocytochemistry revealed that fibrillarin and RNA polymerase I showed the same localisation in the nucleolar precursor bodies. These proteins were immunolocalised only from the late 2-cell stage onward. Fibrillarin was initially detected at the periphery of the nucleolar precursor bodies and the labelling gradually increased until the morula and blastocyst stages, where normally active nucleoli are found. The pattern of increase of fibrillarin during early embryogenesis shows a parallelism with the rise in rRNA gene transcription occurring during these embryonic stages, and a possible correlation between these two phenomena is suggested. Results demonstrated that nucleolar precursor bodies differ in their biochemical composition from the nucleolus and also from the prenucleolar bodies which appear during mitosis. When anti-fibrillarin antibodies were microinjected into the male pronucleus of mouse embryos to analyse the functions of fibrillarin during early development, they partially blocked the early development of mouse embryos and only 23.8% of injected embryos reach the blastocyst stage.
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Parisi G, Echave J, Ghiringhelli D, Romanowski V. Computational characterisation of potential RNA-binding sites in arenavirus nucleocapsid proteins. Virus Genes 1996; 13:247-54. [PMID: 9035369 DOI: 10.1007/bf00366985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A nucleocapsid protein of an RNA virus was characterised using computational methods. Similarity searches using standard algorithms and more sensitive methods based on profiles were performed. Also, secondary structure prediction and statistical methods were used. The results show that the protein belongs to a unique well-characterised family, with three regions with potential RNA binding capacity. The amino-terminal region is found to contain a mixed-charge segment similar to proteins that bear nucleic acid-protein interaction capacity. The middle-region has a slight homology to the nucleolar protein Fibrillarin containing an atypical RNP-1 conserved octamer. Finally, the carboxyl-terminal region has a putative zinc-finger.
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- G Parisi
- Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Bernal, Argentina
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Witt I, Kwart M, Gross T, Käufer NF. The tandem repeat AGGGTAGGGT is, in the fission yeast, a proximal activation sequence and activates basal transcription mediated by the sequence TGTGACTG. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:4296-302. [PMID: 7501449 PMCID: PMC307383 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.21.4296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Ribosomal protein (rp) genes in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe display two highly conserved sequence elements in the promoter region. The molecular dissection of these promoters revealed that basal transcription is not based on a TATA element. The sequence which promotes basal transcription is the conserved sequence CAGTCACA or the inverted form TGTGACTG, called the homol D box. Upstream of the homol D box a tandem repeat AGGGTAGGGT or the inverted form ACCCTACCCT appears in some promoters, called homol E. This element functions in the proximal arrangement with homol D as an activation sequence. A compilation of homol D and homol E sequences identified in other S.pombe promoters revealed that several putative polymerase II and polymerase III promoters display a homol D box or the homol E/homol D arrangement.
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- I Witt
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Gulli MP, Girard JP, Zabetakis D, Lapeyre B, Melese T, Caizergues-Ferrer M. gar2 is a nucleolar protein from Schizosaccharomyces pombe required for 18S rRNA and 40S ribosomal subunit accumulation. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:1912-8. [PMID: 7596817 PMCID: PMC306962 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.11.1912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Several nucleolar proteins, such as nucleolin, NOP1/fibrillarin, SSB1, NSR1 and GAR1 share a common glycine and arginine rich structural motif called the GAR domain. To identify novel nucleolar proteins from fission yeast we screened Schizosaccharomyces pombe genomic DNA libraries with a probe encompassing the GAR structural motif. Here we report the identification and characterization of a S.pombe gene coding for a novel nucleolar protein, designated gar2. The structure of the fission yeast gar2 is reminiscent of that of nucleolin from vertebrates and NSR1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In addition, like these proteins, gar2 has a nucleolar localisation. The disruption of the gar2+ gene affects normal cell growth, leads to an accumulation of 35S pre-rRNA and a decrease of mature 18S rRNA steady state levels. Moreover, ribosomal profiles of the mutant show an increase of free 60S ribosomal subunits and an absence of free 40S ribosomal subunits. gar2 is able to rescue a S.cerevisiae mutant lacking NSR1, thus establishing gar2 as a functional homolog of NSR1. We propose that gar2 helps the assembly of pre-ribosomal particles containing 18S rRNA.
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- M P Gulli
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote du CNRS, Toulouse, France, USA
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Liebich I, Köhler G, Witt I, Gross T, Käufer NF. Two genes encoding ribosomal protein L3 of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and their proximal promoter regions. Gene X 1994; 142:119-22. [PMID: 8181745 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90365-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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We have cloned and sequenced two genes, rpl3-1 and rpl3-2, encoding the ribosomal protein L3 of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The two genes contain an open reading frame encoding 388 amino acids (aa) with a M(r) of 43,808. The aa sequences are identical, except at position 78, where Rpl3-1 displays a valine residue and Rpl3-2 contains isoleucine. The aa sequences show 75% identity to the RPL3 aa sequence from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. S1-nuclease protection analysis revealed that both genes are transcribed. The promoter sequences of the two rpl3 genes are significantly different, but both promoters contain the conserved homol-D element. Transcription starts between 40 and 50 nt downstream from this element.
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- I Liebich
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Lapeyre B, Michot B, Feliu J, Bachellerie JP. Nucleotide sequence of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe 25S ribosomal RNA and its phylogenetic implications. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:3322. [PMID: 8341608 PMCID: PMC309776 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.14.3322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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- B Lapeyre
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, Toulouse, France
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