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Huang S, Xu X, Wang G, Lu G, Xie W, Tao W, Zhang H, Jiang Q, Zhang C. DNA replication initiator Cdc6 also regulates ribosomal DNA transcription initiation. J Cell Sci 2016; 129:1429-40. [PMID: 26872786 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.178723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2015] [Accepted: 02/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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RNA-polymerase-I-dependent ribosomal DNA (rDNA) transcription is fundamental to rRNA processing, ribosome assembly and protein synthesis. However, how this process is initiated during the cell cycle is not fully understood. By performing a proteomic analysis of transcription factors that bind RNA polymerase I during rDNA transcription initiation, we identified that the DNA replication initiator Cdc6 interacts with RNA polymerase I and its co-factors, and promotes rDNA transcription in G1 phase in an ATPase-activity-dependent manner. We further showed that Cdc6 is targeted to the nucleolus during late mitosis and G1 phase in a manner that is dependent on B23 (also known as nucleophosmin, NPM1), and preferentially binds to the rDNA promoter through its ATP-binding domain. Overexpression of Cdc6 increases rDNA transcription, whereas knockdown of Cdc6 results in a decreased association of both RNA polymerase I and the RNA polymerase I transcription factor RRN3 with rDNA, and a reduction of rDNA transcription. Furthermore, depletion of Cdc6 impairs the interaction between RRN3 and RNA polymerase I. Taken together, our data demonstrate that Cdc6 also serves as a regulator of rDNA transcription initiation, and indicate a mechanism by which initiation of rDNA transcription and DNA replication can be coordinated in cells.
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- Shijiao Huang
- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Cancer Research Center, Peking University Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- The MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Spatial organization of RNA polymerase II inside a mammalian cell nucleus revealed by reflected light-sheet superresolution microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 111:681-6. [PMID: 24379392 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318496111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Superresolution microscopy based on single-molecule centroid determination has been widely applied to cellular imaging in recent years. However, quantitative imaging of the mammalian nucleus has been challenging due to the lack of 3D optical sectioning methods for normal-sized cells, as well as the inability to accurately count the absolute copy numbers of biomolecules in highly dense structures. Here we report a reflected light-sheet superresolution microscopy method capable of imaging inside the mammalian nucleus with superior signal-to-background ratio as well as molecular counting with single-copy accuracy. Using reflected light-sheet superresolution microscopy, we probed the spatial organization of transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) molecules and quantified their global extent of clustering inside the mammalian nucleus. Spatiotemporal clustering analysis that leverages on the blinking photophysics of specific organic dyes showed that the majority (>70%) of the transcription foci originate from single RNAP II molecules, and no significant clustering between RNAP II molecules was detected within the length scale of the reported diameter of "transcription factories." Colocalization measurements of RNAP II molecules equally labeled by two spectrally distinct dyes confirmed the primarily unclustered distribution, arguing against a prevalent existence of transcription factories in the mammalian nucleus as previously proposed. The methods developed in our study pave the way for quantitative mapping and stoichiometric characterization of key biomolecular species deep inside mammalian cells.
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Can A, Semiz O, Cinar O. Two Convenient Methods for Nuclear Labeling in Confocal Microscopy using Visible-Lasers. J Histotechnol 2013. [DOI: 10.1179/his.2003.26.3.147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Three-dimensional reconstruction of nucleolar components by electron microscope tomography. Methods Mol Biol 2010; 463:137-58. [PMID: 18951166 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-406-3_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2023]
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The nucleus is a complex volume constituted of numerous subcompartments in which specific functions take place due to a specific spatial organization of their molecular components. To understand how these molecules are spatially organized within these machineries, it is necessary to investigate their three-dimensional organization at high resolution. To reach this goal, electron tomography appears to be a method of choice; it can generate tomograms with a resolution of a few nanometers by using multiple projections of a tilted section several hundred to several thousand nanometers in thickness imaged by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).Specific identification of molecules of interest contained within such thick sections requires their specific immunocytochemical labelling using electron-dense markers. We recently demonstrated that electron tomography of proteins immunostained with nanogold particles before embedding, and subsequently amplified with silver, was very fruitful due to the inherently high spatial resolution of the medium-voltage scanning and transmission electron microscope (STEM). Here we describe this approach, which is very efficient for tracing the 3D organization of proteins within complex machineries by using antibodies raised against one of the proteins, or against GFP to analyse GFP-tagged proteins.
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Tchélidzé P, Chatron-Colliet A, Thiry M, Lalun N, Bobichon H, Ploton D. Tomography of the cell nucleus using confocal microscopy and medium voltage electron microscopy. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2009; 69:127-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2008.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2008] [Accepted: 07/18/2008] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Grob A, Roussel P, Wright JE, McStay B, Hernandez-Verdun D, Sirri V. Involvement of SIRT7 in resumption of rDNA transcription at the exit from mitosis. J Cell Sci 2009; 122:489-98. [PMID: 19174463 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.042382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Sirtuins, also designated class III histone deacetylases, are implicated in the regulation of cell division, apoptosis, DNA damage repair, genomic silencing and longevity. The nucleolar Sirtuin7 (SIRT7) was reported to be involved in the regulation of ribosomal gene (rDNA) transcription, but there are no data concerning the regulation of SIRT7 during the cell cycle. Here we have analyzed the behavior of endogenous SIRT7 during mitosis, while rDNA transcription is repressed. SIRT7 remains associated with nucleolar organizer regions, as does the RNA polymerase I machinery. SIRT7 directly interacts with the rDNA transcription factor UBF. Moreover, SIRT7 is phosphorylated via the CDK1-cyclin B pathway during mitosis and dephosphorylated by a phosphatase sensitive to okadaic acid at the exit from mitosis before onset of rDNA transcription. Interestingly, dephosphorylation events induce a conformational modification of the carboxy-terminal region of SIRT7 before the release of mitotic repression of rDNA transcription. As SIRT7 activity is required to resume rDNA transcription in telophase, we propose that this conformational modification regulates onset of rDNA transcription.
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- Alice Grob
- Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592 CNRS/Universités Paris 6 et 7, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Cheutin T, Sauvage C, Tchélidzé P, O'Donohue MF, Kaplan H, Beorchia A, Ploton D. Visualizing Macromolecules with Fluoronanogold: From Photon Microscopy to Electron Tomography. Methods Cell Biol 2007; 79:559-74. [PMID: 17327174 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(06)79022-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- T Cheutin
- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS UPR 1142, 34396 Montpellier Cédex 5, France
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Chen D, Dundr M, Wang C, Leung A, Lamond A, Misteli T, Huang S. Condensed mitotic chromatin is accessible to transcription factors and chromatin structural proteins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 168:41-54. [PMID: 15623580 PMCID: PMC2171683 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200407182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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During mitosis, chromosomes are highly condensed and transcription is silenced globally. One explanation for transcriptional repression is the reduced accessibility of transcription factors. To directly test this hypothesis and to investigate the dynamics of mitotic chromatin, we evaluate the exchange kinetics of several RNA polymerase I transcription factors and nucleosome components on mitotic chromatin in living cells. We demonstrate that these factors rapidly exchange on and off ribosomal DNA clusters and that the kinetics of exchange varies at different phases of mitosis. In addition, the nucleosome component H1c-GFP also shows phase-specific exchange rates with mitotic chromatin. Furthermore, core histone components exchange at detectable levels that are elevated during anaphase and telophase, temporally correlating with H3-K9 acetylation and recruitment of RNA polymerase II before the onset of bulk RNA synthesis at mitotic exit. Our findings indicate that mitotic chromosomes in general and ribosomal genes in particular, although highly condensed, are accessible to transcription factors and chromatin proteins. The phase-specific exchanges of nucleosome components during late mitotic phases are consistent with an emerging model of replication independent core histone replacement.
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- Danyang Chen
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Leung AKL, Gerlich D, Miller G, Lyon C, Lam YW, Lleres D, Daigle N, Zomerdijk J, Ellenberg J, Lamond AI. Quantitative kinetic analysis of nucleolar breakdown and reassembly during mitosis in live human cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 166:787-800. [PMID: 15353547 PMCID: PMC2172103 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200405013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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One of the great mysteries of the nucleolus surrounds its disappearance during mitosis and subsequent reassembly at late mitosis. Here, the relative dynamics of nucleolar disassembly and reformation were dissected using quantitative 4D microscopy with fluorescent protein-tagged proteins in human stable cell lines. The data provide a novel insight into the fates of the three distinct nucleolar subcompartments and their associated protein machineries in a single dividing cell. Before the onset of nuclear envelope (NE) breakdown, nucleolar disassembly started with the loss of RNA polymerase I subunits from the fibrillar centers. Dissociation of proteins from the other subcompartments occurred with faster kinetics but commenced later, coincident with the process of NE breakdown. The reformation pathway also follows a reproducible and defined temporal sequence but the order of reassembly is shown not to be dictated by the order in which individual nucleolar components reaccumulate within the nucleus after mitosis.
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- Anthony Kar Lun Leung
- Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, School of Life Sciences, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK
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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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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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The green fluorescent protein (GFP) has revolutionized cell biology. The ability to observe genetically encoded fluorescently tagged fusion proteins in intact cells has made virtually any biological process amenable to investigation in living cells. However, most in vivo imaging studies are qualitative and little information about the number of fluorescently labeled molecules observed in a cell or a cellular structure is available. This deficiency severely limits the interpretation of imaging experiments and it impedes the application of in vivo imaging methods for biophysical purposes. Here we describe a simple method for the quantitative determination of the number of GFP-tagged molecules in cellular structures in single living cells. The method is based on the use of rotavirus-like particles containing a known number of GFP molecules as an internal calibration standard during in vivo imaging. We have applied this method to estimate in single living cells the number of fluorescent transcription factor molecules on RNA polymerase I and polymerase II genes. In addition, we have estimated the number of molecules for several proteins in subnuclear compartments and in exocytic vesicles. VLP-GFP calibration is a simple, convenient, rapid, and noninvasive method for routine quantification of GFP-labeled molecules in single, living cells.
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- Miroslav Dundr
- National Cancer Institute, NIH, 41 Library Drive, Bldg. 41, Bethesda, MD 20892-5055, USA
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DNA Ploidy, Bromodeoxyuridine labelling index, S-phase fraction and AgNOR counts in brain tumours. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1507-1367(00)70364-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Héliot L, Mongelard F, Klein C, O'Donohue MF, Chassery JM, Robert-Nicoud M, Usson Y. Nonrandom distribution of metaphase AgNOR staining patterns on human acrocentric chromosomes. J Histochem Cytochem 2000; 48:13-20. [PMID: 10653582 DOI: 10.1177/002215540004800102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The metaphase nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) contain ribosomal genes associated with proteins such as upstream binding factor (UBF) and RNA polymerase I (RPI). These genes are clustered in 10 loci of the human acrocentric chromosomes (13, 14, 15, 21, and 22). Some NOR-associated proteins, termed AgNOR proteins, can be specifically stained by silver. In this study we took advantage of technical advances in digital imaging, image restoration techniques, and factorial correspondence analysis (FCA) to study the different AgNOR staining patterns of metaphase chromosomes in human lymphocytes. Three predominant patterns could be distinguished: pair (47%), stick-like (28%), and unstained (18%) structures. By studying the frequency of occurrence of each pattern on different chromosomes, two groups could be defined. Chromosomes 13, 14, and 21 carried predominantly pair or stick-like AgNOR structures, whereas chromosomes 15 and 22 mainly carried pair AgNOR structures or remained unstained. We suggest that the different AgNOR shapes reflect both the number of ribosomal genes carried by each chromosome and the differential recruitment of active ribosomal genes in each NOR cluster. This is the first study showing a nonrandom distribution of AgNOR shape among acrocentric chromosomes.
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- L Héliot
- Laboratoire DyOGen, UJF and INSERM U309, Institut Albert Bonniot, La Tronche, France
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Fomproix N, Hernandez-Verdun D. Effects of anti-PM-Scl 100 (Rrp6p exonuclease) antibodies on prenucleolar body dynamics at the end of mitosis. Exp Cell Res 1999; 251:452-64. [PMID: 10471330 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Prenucleolar bodies (PNBs) are transitory structures which serve as building blocks for nucleoli at the transition mitosis/interphase. The assembly of PNBs and their pathway are not clearly understood. To better understand these events, the behavior of the PNB-containing PM-Scl 100 protein was compared with that of other PNB proteins. This nucleolar protein was chosen because its yeast homologue, Rrp6p exonuclease [1], is known to participate in late events in 5.8 S rRNA (ribosomal RNA) processing. There was a heterogeneous distribution of nucleolar proteins in different classes of PNBs. The PM-Scl 100 colocalized predominantly with protein B23. The PM-Scl-100-containing PNBs were translocated at later times to nucleoli as opposed to the fibrillarin-containing PNBs. Microinjections of antibodies directed against PM-Scl 100 during mitosis inhibited targeting of PM-Scl 100 to the nucleolus. However fibrillarin and protein B23 still participated in nucleolar assembly in early G1. We conclude that there are different kinds of PNBs whose translocation to the nucleoli follow ordered kinetics. Interestingly, proteins involved in late steps of processing as PM-Scl 100 are translocated late, suggesting that they are not cotranscriptionally associated with the rRNA precursors.
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- N Fomproix
- Institut Jacques Monod, Cedex 05, Paris, 75251, France
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Klein C, Cheutin T, O'Donohue MF, Rothblum L, Kaplan H, Beorchia A, Lucas L, Héliot L, Ploton D. The three-dimensional study of chromosomes and upstream binding factor-immunolabeled nucleolar organizer regions demonstrates their nonrandom spatial arrangement during mitosis. Mol Biol Cell 1998; 9:3147-59. [PMID: 9802903 PMCID: PMC25602 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.11.3147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The volumic rearrangement of both chromosomes and immunolabeled upstream binding factor in entire well-preserved mitotic cells was studied by confocal microscopy. By using high-quality three-dimensional visualization and tomography, it was possible to investigate interactively the volumic organization of chromosome sets and to focus on their internal characteristics. More particularly, this study demonstrates the nonrandom positioning of metaphase chromosomes bearing nucleolar organizer regions as revealed by their positive upstream binding factor immunolabeling. During the complex morphogenesis of the progeny nuclei from anaphase to late telophase, the equal partitioning of the nucleolar organizer regions is demonstrated by quantification, and their typical nonrandom central positioning within the chromosome sets is revealed.
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- C Klein
- Unité 314 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Laboratoire Pol Bouin and IFR 53, 51092 Reims Cedex France
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Heliot L, Kaplan H, Lucas L, Klein C, Beorchia A, Doco-Fenzy M, Menager M, Thiry M, O'Donohue MF, Ploton D. Electron tomography of metaphase nucleolar organizer regions: evidence for a twisted-loop organization. Mol Biol Cell 1997; 8:2199-216. [PMID: 9362063 PMCID: PMC25702 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.8.11.2199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Metaphase nucleolar organizer regions (NORs), one of four types of chromosome bands, are located on human acrocentric chromosomes. They contain r-chromatin, i.e., ribosomal genes complexed with proteins such as upstream binding factor and RNA polymerase I, which are argyrophilic NOR proteins. Immunocytochemical and cytochemical labelings of these proteins were used to reveal r-chromatin in situ and to investigate its spatial organization within NORs by confocal microscopy and by electron tomography. For each labeling, confocal microscopy revealed small and large double-spotted NORs and crescent-shaped NORs. Their internal three-dimensional (3D) organization was studied by using electron tomography on specifically silver-stained NORs. The 3D reconstructions allow us to conclude that the argyrophilic NOR proteins are grouped as a fiber of 60-80 nm in diameter that constitutes either one part of a turn or two or three turns of a helix within small and large double-spotted NORs, respectively. Within crescent-shaped NORs, virtual slices reveal that the fiber constitutes several longitudinally twisted loops, grouped as two helical 250- to 300-nm coils, each centered on a nonargyrophilic axis of condensed chromatin. We propose a model of the 3D organization of r-chromatin within elongated NORs, in which loops are twisted and bent to constitute one basic chromatid coil.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Carcinoma, Ehrlich Tumor
- Chromatin/chemistry
- Chromatin/ultrastructure
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/analysis
- DNA, Ribosomal/analysis
- Humans
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- KB Cells
- Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute
- Metaphase
- Mice
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission
- Models, Molecular
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Nucleolus Organizer Region/chemistry
- Nucleolus Organizer Region/ultrastructure
- Protein Conformation
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- L Heliot
- Unité 314 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Laboratoire Pol Bouin, Reims, France
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Lucas L, Gillard D, Rémion Y. A new unsupervised cube-based algorithm for iso-surface generation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0169-7552(97)00086-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Dundr M, Meier UT, Lewis N, Rekosh D, Hammarskjöld ML, Olson MO. A class of nonribosomal nucleolar components is located in chromosome periphery and in nucleolus-derived foci during anaphase and telophase. Chromosoma 1997; 105:407-17. [PMID: 9211968 DOI: 10.1007/bf02510477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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. The subcellular location of several nonribosomal nucleolar proteins was examined at various stages of mitosis in synchronized mammalian cell lines including HeLa, 3T3, COS-7 and HIV-1 Rev-expressing CMT3 cells. Nucleolar proteins B23, fibrillarin, nucleolin and p52 as well as U3 snoRNA were located partially in the peripheral regions of chromosomes from prometaphase to early telophase. However, these proteins were also found in large cytoplasmic particles, 1-2 microm in diameter, termed nucleolus-derived foci (NDF). The NDF reached maximum numbers (as many as 100 per cell) during mid- to late anaphase, after which their number declined to a few or none during late telophase. The decline in the number of NDF approximately coincided with the appearance of prenucleolar bodies and reforming nucleoli. The HIV-1 Rev protein and a mutant Rev protein defective in its nuclear export signal were also found in the NDF. The mutant Rev protein precisely followed the pattern of localization of the above nucleolar proteins, whereas the wild-type Rev did not enter nuclei until G1 phase. The nucleolar shuttling phosphoprotein Nopp140 did not follow the above pattern of localization during mitosis: it dispersed in the cytoplasm from prometaphase through early telophase and was not found in the NDF. Although the NDF and mitotic coiled bodies disappeared from the cytoplasm at approximately the same time during mitosis, protein B23 was not found in mitotic coiled bodies, nor was p80 coilin present in the NDF. These results suggest that a class of proteins involved in preribosomal RNA processing associate with chromosome periphery and with NDF as part of a system to conserve and deliver preexisting components to reforming nucleoli during mitosis.
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- M Dundr
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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Zatsepina OV, Dudnic OA, Todorov IT, Thiry M, Spring H, Trendelenburg MF. Experimental induction of prenucleolar bodies (PNBs) in interphase cells: interphase PNBs show similar characteristics as those typically observed at telophase of mitosis in untreated cells. Chromosoma 1997; 105:418-30. [PMID: 9211969 DOI: 10.1007/bf02510478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Recently, it was shown that a short exposure of living mammalian cells to low ionic strength buffers (hypotonic shock) caused partial or almost complete unraveling of interphase nucleoli. However, when the cells were released from the hypotonic shock and transferred to normal isotonic medium, functionally active and structurally integral nucleoli were reassembled at their initial positions within interphase nuclei. Here, we show further that this process is accompanied by the appearance of numerous discrete extranucleolar bodies, which have striking similarities to the prenucleolar bodies (PNBs) observed in untreated cells at telophase of mitosis. (1) Like PNBs at mitosis, hypotonically induced interphase PNBs are composed of RNA-positive granules and fibrils, contain the major nucleolar protein B23 and silver-binding proteins, but lack DNA and RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF. (2) As for mitotic PNBs, disappearance of the interphase PNB counterparts coincides with the increase in size of reconstructed nucleoli. (3) Addition of actinomycin D does not prevent assembly of interphase PNBs, but does arrest their coalescence with the chromosomal nucleolus-organizing regions and blocks the complete reformation of nucleoli. It is concluded that the assembly of PNBs generally observed at telophase of mitosis can be induced experimentally in nuclei of interphase mammalian cells in vivo. At interphase, this process is probably initiated by changes in the intracellular ionic environment.
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- O V Zatsepina
- A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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Dundr M, Leno GH, Lewis N, Rekosh D, Hammarskjöid ML, Olson MO. Location of the HIV-1 Rev protein during mitosis: inactivation of the nuclear export signal alters the pathway for postmitotic reentry into nucleoli. J Cell Sci 1996; 109 ( Pt 9):2239-51. [PMID: 8886975 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.109.9.2239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The HIV-1 Rev protein localizes predominantly to the nucleolus of HIV-1-infected or Rev-expressing cells. The subcellular location of Rev during mitotic nucleolar disintegration was examined at various stages of mitosis in synchronized Rev-expressing CMT3 cells. During early prophase Rev was predominantly located in disintegrating nucleoli and began to accumulate at the peripheral regions of chromosomes in late prophase, eventually distributing uniformly on all chromosomes in prometaphase. In anaphase Rev remained associated with the perichromosomal regions, but significant amounts of Rev were also seen in numerous nucleolus-derived foci. The movement of Rev from disintegrating nucleoli to perichromosomal regions and foci was similar to that of nonribosomal nucleolar proteins, including fibrillarin, nucleolin, protein B23 and p52 of the granular component. During telophase Rev remained associated with perichromosomal regions and mitotic foci until the nuclear envelope started to reform. When nuclear envelope formation was complete in late telophase, nonribosomal nucleolar proteins were present in prenucleolar bodies (PNBs) which were eventually incorporated into nucleoli; at the same time, Rev was excluded from nuclei. In contrast, a trans-dominant negative Rev protein containing an inactive nuclear export signal reentered nuclei by the nonribosomal nucleolar protein pathway in late telophase, associating with PNBs and reformed nucleoli. Rev protein reentry into postmitotic nuclei was delayed until early G1 phase, but before the arrival of ribosomal protein S6. Thus, Rev behaves like a nonribosomal nucleolar protein through mitosis until early telophase; however, its nuclear reentry seems to require reestablishment of both a nuclear import system and active nucleoli.
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- M Dundr
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216, USA
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Trendelenburg MF, Zatsepina OV, Waschek T, Schlegel W, Tröster H, Rudolph D, Schmahl G, Spring H. Multiparameter microscopic analysis of nucleolar structure and ribosomal gene transcription. Histochem Cell Biol 1996; 106:167-92. [PMID: 8877378 DOI: 10.1007/bf02484399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A survey of novel microscopic approaches for structural and functional analysis of subnucleolar compartments will be presented. Research on nucleolar structure and function concentrates predominantly on two distinct types of nucleoli: (1) nucleoli present during the interphase of the cell cycle in somatic tissue culture cells and (2) nucleoli present in meiotic cells, e.g. oocytes of amphibians. These nucleoli are found during meiotic prophase of oogenesis and are functional during several months of the diplotene stage of oogenesis. A further characteristic is the fact that these nucleoli are extrachromosomal, since they originate by selective ribosomal DNA (rDNA) amplification during the early pachytene stage of oogenesis. Miller-type chromatin spread preparations using transcriptionally active nucleoli, to a major part, contributed to our understanding of the structural organization of polymerase I directed pre-rRNA transcription. Although the structural organization of the template-associated pre-rRNA transcript is known in some detail from chromatin spreads, relatively little is known about structural aspects of pre-rRNA processing. In order to investigate this intriguing question in more detail, we have developed a computer-based densitometry analysis of both template-associated and template-dissociated pre-rRNA transcripts in order to follow the structural modification of pre-rRNA transcripts during processing. Another line of experiments is devoted to the in situ structure of actively transcribing genes in the nucleolus. In order to bridge the gap between light microscopy and electron microscopy we started video-enhanced light microscopical analysis of actively transcribing genes. Although the dimensions of individual spread genes are critical for detection by optical microscopy, we succeeded in obtaining the first series of images of transcribing genes in their "native' hydrated state. An additional promising type of microscopy is transmission X-ray microscopy. Recent progress in instrumentation as well as in sample preparation has allowed us to obtain the first images of density distribution within intact, fully hydrated nucleoli using amplitude-contrast and/or phase-contrast X-ray microscopy of non-contrasted, fully hydrated nucleoli at different states of transcriptional activity. Whereas the above mentioned investigations using video microscopy and X-ray microscopy are predominantly applicable to the analysis of amplified nucleoli in amphibian oocytes, which are characterized by an extremely high transcription rate of 80-90% of rDNA genes per individual nucleolus, structural analysis of the in situ arrangement of actively transcribing genes in somatic nucleoli as present in the interphase nucleus is far more difficult to perform, mainly due to the much lower number of simultaneously transcribed active genes per individual nucleolus. Visualization of actively transcribed gene clusters is approached by an integrated experimental assay using video microscopy, confocal laser scan microscopy, and antibodies against specific nucleolar proteins.
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