Cajal bodies: evolutionarily conserved nuclear biomolecular condensates with properties unique to plants

ME Taliansky, AJ Love, A Kołowerzo-Lubnau… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Proper orchestration of the thousands of biochemical processes that are essential to the life
of every cell requires highly organized cellular compartmentalization of dedicated …

Cajal bodies and their role in plant stress and disease responses

AJ Love, C Yu, NV Petukhova, NO Kalinina, J Chen… - RNA biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cajal bodies (CBs) are distinct sub-nuclear structures that are present in eukaryotic living
cells and are often associated with the nucleolus. CBs play important roles in RNA …

SMN regulates GEMIN5 expression and acts as a modifier of GEMIN5-mediated neurodegeneration

TR Fortuna, S Kour, AV Chimata, A Muiños-Bühl… - Acta …, 2023 - Springer
GEMIN5 is essential for core assembly of small nuclear Ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), the
building blocks of spliceosome formation. Loss-of-function mutations in GEMIN5 lead to a …

Reorganization of Cajal bodies and nucleolar targeting of coilin in motor neurons of type I spinal muscular atrophy

O Tapia, R Bengoechea, A Palanca, R Arteaga… - Histochemistry and cell …, 2012 - Springer
Type I spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by loss or
mutations of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. The reduction in SMN protein levels …

Functional nuclear retention of pre-mRNA involving Cajal bodies during meiotic prophase in European larch (Larix decidua)

M Rudzka, P Wróblewska-Ankiewicz… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gene regulation ensures that the appropriate genes are expressed at the proper time.
Nuclear retention of incompletely spliced or mature mRNAs is emerging as a novel …

Regulation of poly (A) RNA retention in the nucleus as a survival strategy of plants during hypoxia

J Niedojadło, K Dełeńko, K Niedojadło - RNA biology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Last finding indicates that post-transcriptional processes are significant in low-oxygen
conditions, but their nature is poorly understood. Here, we localized poly (A) RNA and …

mRNA accumulation in the Cajal bodies of the diplotene larch microsporocyte

DJ Smoliński, A Kołowerzo - Chromosoma, 2012 - Springer
In microsporocytes of the European larch, we demonstrated the presence of several mRNAs
in spherical nuclear bodies. In the nuclei of microsporocytes, we observed up to 12 bodies …

Transcriptional activity in diplotene larch microsporocytes, with emphasis on the diffuse stage

A Kołowerzo-Lubnau, J Niedojadło, M Świdziński… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Manuscript provides insights into the biology of long-lived plants, different from Arabidopsis,
tomato or grass species that are widely studied. In the European larch the diplotene stage …

Nuclear ribonucleoprotein-containing foci increase in size in non-dividing cells from patients with myotonic dystrophy type 2

M Giagnacovo, M Malatesta, R Cardani… - Histochemistry and cell …, 2012 - Springer
Myotonic dystrophies (DM) are genetically based neuromuscular disorders characterized by
the accumulation of mutant transcripts into peculiar intranuclear foci, where different splicing …

Spatial regulation of cytoplasmic snRNP assembly at the cellular level

M Hyjek, N Wojciechowska, M Rudzka… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) play a crucial role in pre-mRNA splicing in all
eukaryotic cells. In contrast to the relatively broad knowledge on snRNP assembly within the …