Cajal bodies: where form meets function

M Machyna, P Heyn… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The cell nucleus contains dozens of subcompartments that separate biochemical processes
into confined spaces. Cajal bodies (CBs) were discovered more than 100 years ago, but …

Coordinating cell cycle-regulated histone gene expression through assembly and function of the Histone Locus Body

RJ Duronio, WF Marzluff - RNA biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Metazoan replication-dependent (RD) histone genes encode the only known cellular
mRNAs that are not polyadenylated. These mRNAs end instead in a conserved stem-loop …

[HTML][HTML] The cajal body

GE Morris - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2008 - Elsevier
The Cajal body, originally identified over 100 years ago as a nucleolar accessory body in
neurons, has come to be identified with nucleoplasmic structures, often quite tiny, that …

The 3′ Pol II pausing at replication-dependent histone genes is regulated by Mediator through Cajal bodies' association with histone locus bodies

H Suzuki, R Abe, M Shimada, T Hirose, H Hirose… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Non-polyadenylated mRNAs of replication-dependent histones (RDHs) are synthesized by
RNA polymerase II (Pol II) at histone locus bodies (HLBs). HLBs frequently associate with …

Poly-small ubiquitin-like modifier (PolySUMO)-binding proteins identified through a string search

H Sun, T Hunter - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012 - ASBMB
Polysumoylation is a crucial cellular response to stresses against genomic integrity or
proteostasis. Like the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO)-targeted ubiquitin ligase RNF4 …

FLASH is required for histone transcription and S-phase progression

D Barcaroli, L Bongiorno-Borbone… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Cajal bodies are nuclear subdomains that are involved in maturation of small
ribonucleoproteins and frequently associate with small nuclear RNA and histone gene …

The Cajal body and the nucleolus:“In a relationship” or “It's complicated”?

L Trinkle-Mulcahy, JE Sleeman - RNA biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
From their initial identification as 'nucleolar accessory bodies' more than a century ago, the
relationship between Cajal bodies and nucleoli has been a subject of interest and …

The role of nuclear bodies in gene expression and disease

M Morimoto, CF Boerkoel - Biology, 2013 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the current understanding of the role of nuclear bodies in regulating
gene expression. The compartmentalization of cellular processes, such as ribosome …

Drosophila histone locus bodies form by hierarchical recruitment of components

AE White, BD Burch, X Yang, PY Gasdaska… - Journal of Cell …, 2011 - rupress.org
Nuclear bodies are protein-and RNA-containing structures that participate in a wide range of
processes critical to genome function. Molecular self-organization is thought to drive nuclear …

Nuclear sorting of RNA

W Garland, TH Jensen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of the mammalian genome is transcribed by RNA polymerase II, yielding a vast
amount of noncoding RNA (ncRNA) in addition to the standard production of mRNA. The …