Emerging roles of nuclear bodies in genome spatial organization

L Shan, P Li, H Yu, LL Chen - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Nuclear bodies (NBs) are biomolecular condensates that participate in various cellular
processes and respond to cellular stimuli in the nucleus. The assembly and function of these …

Membrane-less compartments in the nucleus: Separated or connected phases?

J Liang, D Cai - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that many nuclear membrane-less
compartments have liquid-like properties and may form through the physicochemical …

CRISPR-array-mediated imaging of non-repetitive and multiplex genomic loci in living cells

LZ Yang, YH Min, YX Liu, BQ Gao, XQ Liu, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dynamic imaging of genomic loci is key for understanding gene regulation, but methods for
imaging genomes, in particular non-repetitive DNAs, are limited. We developed …

[HTML][HTML] Following the Birth, Life, and Death of mRNAs in Single Cells

BT Eichenberger, E Griesbach… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in single-molecule imaging of mRNAs in fixed and living cells have
enabled the lives of mRNAs to be studied with unprecedented spatial and temporal detail …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution spatial multi-omics reveals cell-type specific nuclear compartments

Y Takei, Y Yang, J White, J Yun, M Prasad… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The mammalian nucleus is compartmentalized by diverse subnuclear structures. These
subnuclear structures, marked by nuclear bodies and histone modifications, are often cell …

Splicing regulation through biomolecular condensates and membraneless organelles

J Giudice, H Jiang - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates, sometimes also known as membraneless organelles (MLOs),
can form through weak multivalent intermolecular interactions of proteins and nucleic acids …

[HTML][HTML] PRPF8-mediated dysregulation of hBrr2 helicase disrupts human spliceosome kinetics and 5´-splice-site selection causing tissue-specific defects

R Atkinson, M Georgiou, C Yang, K Szymanska… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The carboxy-terminus of the spliceosomal protein PRPF8, which regulates the RNA helicase
Brr2, is a hotspot for mutations causing retinitis pigmentosa-type 13, with unclear role in …

Disruption of nuclear speckle integrity dysregulates RNA splicing in C9ORF72-FTD/ALS

R Wu, Y Ye, D Dong, Z Zhang, S Wang, Y Li, N Wright… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Expansion of an intronic (GGGGCC) n repeat within the C9ORF72 gene is the most common
genetic cause of both frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

A systematic analysis of circRNAs in subnuclear compartments

A Brezski, J Murtagh, MH Schulz, K Zarnack - RNA biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
CircRNAs are an important class of RNAs with diverse cellular functions in human
physiology and disease. A thorough knowledge of circRNAs including their biogenesis and …

Neuronal activation affects the organization and protein composition of the nuclear speckles

AA Szczepankiewicz, K Parobczak… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nuclear speckles, also known as interchromatin granule clusters (IGCs), are subnuclear
domains highly enriched in proteins involved in transcription and mRNA metabolism and …