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Genomes and Genes | A G MateraSummaryAffiliation: Case Western Reserve University Country: USA Publications
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Nuclear bodies: multifaceted subdomains of the interchromatin spaceA G Matera
Dept of Genetics, Center for Human Genetics and Program in Cell Biology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44106 4955, USA
Trends Cell Biol 9:302-9. 1999..This review discusses the different types of nuclear bodies, with emphasis on the two most prominent subtypes - the coiled and PML bodies...
Of coiled bodies, gems, and salmonA G Matera
Department of Genetics, Center for Human Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 4955, USA
J Cell Biochem 70:181-92. 1998..In particular, the reader will be introduced to a novel hypothesis called the "salmon theory of snRNP biogenesis." Questions arising from and experiments necessary to test this hypothesis will be discussed...
RNA splicing: more clues from spinal muscular atrophyA G Matera
Department of Genetics Center for Human Genetics Program in Cell Biology Case Western Reserve University University Hospitals of Cleveland Cleveland Ohio 44106 4955 USA
Curr Biol 9:R140-2. 1999..A recent study indicates that SMN may also play a role in pre-mRNA splicing...
Coilin forms the bridge between Cajal bodies and SMN, the spinal muscular atrophy proteinM D Hebert
Department of Genetics and Program in Cell Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 4955, USA
Genes Dev 15:2720-9. 2001..A cardinal feature of SMA patient cells is a defect in the targeting of SMN to nuclear foci; our results uncover a role for coilin in this process...
Residual Cajal bodies in coilin knockout mice fail to recruit Sm snRNPs and SMN, the spinal muscular atrophy gene productK E Tucker
Department of Genetics, and Program in Cell Biology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
J Cell Biol 154:293-307. 2001....
Human genes encoding U3 snRNA associate with coiled bodies in interphase cells and are clustered on chromosome 17p11.2 in a complex inverted repeat structureL Gao
Department of Genetics, Center for Human Genetics, Center for RNA Molecular Biology and Program in Cell Biology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44106 4955, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 25:4740-7. 1997..Thus all of the CBORs identified to date are composed of either tandemly repeated or tightly clustered genes. The evolutionary and cell biological consequences of this type of organization are discussed...
RNA-mediated interaction of Cajal bodies and U2 snRNA genesM R Frey
Department of Genetics and Program in Cell Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
J Cell Biol 154:499-509. 2001..Our data thus provide significant insight into the mechanism of CB interaction with snRNA loci, strengthening the putative role for this nuclear suborganelle in snRNP biogenesis...
Self-association of coilin reveals a common theme in nuclear body localizationM D Hebert
Department of Genetics, Center for Human Genetics and Program in Cell Biology, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 4955, USA
Mol Biol Cell 11:4159-71. 2000..g., PML, SMN and Sam68) can also self-associate. Thus protein self-interaction appears to be a general feature of nuclear body marker proteins...
The U22 host gene (UHG): chromosomal localization of UHG and distribution of U22 small nucleolar RNAM R Frey
Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 4955, USA
Histochem Cell Biol 108:365-70. 1997..Additional FISH experiments using anti-U22 oligonucleotides revealed that, as with U3, this sno-RNA is localized throughout the nucleolus...
Structure and characterization of the murine p80 coilin gene, CoilK E Tucker
Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106 4955, USA
J Struct Biol 129:269-77. 2000..These results should facilitate gene disruption experiments aimed at creating a genetic model system to study CBs...
The bona fide mouse U7 snRNA gene maps to a different chromosome than two U7 pseudogenesP C Turner
Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 4955
Genomics 31:250-2. 1996..Two of the pseudogenes map to mouse Chromosome 1, but are many megabases apart, whereas the active U7 gene maps to Chromosome 6. Possible mechanisms for this localization pattern are discussed...
Cell cycle-dependent localization of the CDK2-cyclin E complex in Cajal (coiled) bodiesJ Liu
Departments of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Pathology Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
J Cell Sci 113:1543-52. 2000..Possible roles for CDK2 and cyclin E in the well-documented association of CBs, histone gene clusters and RNA 3' end processing factors are discussed...
Genetic analysis of nuclear bodies: from nondeterministic chaos to deterministic orderT K Rajendra
Department of Biology, Department of Genetics, Program in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 75:365-74. 2010....
