Journal
BIOLOGY OPEN
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 1342-1354Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.028092
Keywords
Methylation; Cajal body; Nucleolus; ScaRNA; SnoRNP
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- Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health [GM104077]
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Many ribonucleoproteins (RNPs), which are comprised of noncoding RNA and associated proteins, are involved in essential cellular processes such as translation and pre-mRNA splicing. One class of RNP is the small Cajal body-specific RNP (scaRNP), which contributes to the biogenesis of small nuclear RNPs (snRNPs) that are central components of the spliceosome. Three scaRNAs are internally processed, generating stable nucleolus-enriched RNAs of unknown function. Here, we provide data that show that these RNAs become part of RNPs we term regulatory RNPs (regRNPs). Most modifications within rRNA (predominantly pseudouridylation and ribose 2'-O-methylation) are conducted by small nucleolar RNPs (snoRNPs), and we provide evidence that the activity of at least some of these snoRNPs is under the control of regRNPs. Because modifications within rRNA can vary in different physiological or pathological situations, rRNA modifications are thought to be the major source of ribosome heterogeneity. Our identification of regRNPs thus provides a potential mechanism for how ribosome heterogeneity may be accomplished. This work also provides additional functional connections between the Cajal body and the nucleolus.
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