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- Jin, Shao-Bo, et al.
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CRM1 and Ran are present but a NES-CRM1-RanGTP complex is not required in Balbiani ring mRNP particles from the gene to the cytoplasm
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Ingår i: Journal of Cell Science. - : The Company of Biologists. - 0021-9533 .- 1477-9137. ; 117, s. 1553-1566
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Messenger RNA is formed from precursors known as pre-mRNA. Theseprecursors associate with proteins to form pre-mRNA-protein(pre-mRNP) complexes. Processing machines cap, splice and polyadenylatethe pre-mRNP and in this way build the mRNP. These processingmachines also affect the export of the mRNP complexes from thenucleus to the cytoplasm. Export to the cytoplasm takes placethrough a structure in the nuclear membrane called the nuclearpore complex (NPC). Export involves adapter proteins in themRNP and receptor proteins that bind to the adapter proteinsand to components of the NPC. We show that the export receptorchromosomal region maintenance protein 1 (CRM1), belonging toa family of proteins known as importin-ß-like proteins,binds to gene-specific Balbiani ring (BR) pre-mRNP while transcriptiontakes place. We also show that the GTPase known as Ran bindsto BR pre-mRNP, and that it binds mainly in the interchromatin.However, we also show using leptomycin B treatment that a NES-CRM1-RanGTPcomplex is not essential for export, even though both CRM1 andRan accompany the BR mRNP through the NPC. Our results thereforesuggest that several export receptors associate with BR mRNPand that these receptors have redundant functions in the nuclearexport of BR mRNP.
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- Xin, Sun, et al.
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A novel protein localized to the fibrillar compartment of the nucleolus and to the brush border of a secretory cell
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Ingår i: European Journal of Cell Biology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0171-9335 .- 1618-1298. ; 81:3, s. 125-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report the identification and molecular characterization of a novel abundant nucleolar protein of the dipteran Chironomus tentans. As shown by Western blot analysis, this protein is present in nuclear extracts in a phosphorylated form with a mobility corresponding to 100 kDa. Therefore, the protein has been termed Chironomus tentans p100, or p100 for short. Analysis of the cDNA-derived primary structure of p100 indicates a protein that contains a combination of structural domains which could be involved in interactions with proteins and nucleic acids: twelve alternating acidic and basic repeats, a glycine-arginine-rich domain and a region with two zinc fingers of the C4-type. Acidic and basic repeats are typical for a group of nonribosomal nucleolar proteins. The best-studied representatives of this group are Nopp140 and nucleolin, proteins with structural and regulatory functions in rDNA transcription. Immunocytology and immunoelectron microscopy of Chironomus tentans salivary gland cells have shown that the p100 protein is located in the fibrillar compartment of the nucleolus, while it is almost absent from the granular compartment and from the nucleoplasm. The p100 protein remains in the nucleolus after removal of RNA and DNA by digestion with nucleases. This indicates that p100 might be a constituent of the nucleolar proteinaceous framework. Remarkably, p100 is also localized in the brush border in the apical part of the salivary gland cell. The presence of p100 both in the nucleolus and at the apical plasma membrane suggests that it could be involved in coordination of the level of protein production and export from the cell through regulation of the level of rRNA production in the nucleolus.
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