Despite being recognized for over a century, the regulatory mechanism, composition, and functions of the NoV are still not well understood.
A research team for the first time, the composition and regulatory mechanism of the Nucleolar Vacuole in C. elegans. The result was published in Cell Reports.
The nucleus contains a prominent organelle called the nucleolus, which is primarily responsible for the assembly and production of ribosomes, which are essential cellular structures involved in protein synthesis. Increasing evidence indicates that the nucleolus is a condense biomolecular structure that forms through phase separation, it displays three or two internal phase-separated subcompartments in mammalian cells and C. elegans respectively.
However, there is a highly conserved central region, called the nucleolar cavities or vacuoles (A similar nucleolar vacuole [NoV] has been observed in mammalian cells), present in the nucleoli of various plants and animals.
Using differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy and fluorescent microscopy, the team visualized the nucleolar structure of C. elegans. and found that there were two kinds of nucleoli: spherical and vacuole-contained nucleoli. Candidate-based RNAi screening was used and it was found that knockdown of a distinct class of ribosomal proteins of the large subunit (RPLs) reshaped spherical nucleoli to vacuole-contained nucleoli, accompanied by abnormal accumulation of 27SA2 rRNAs.
Another two highly conserved nucleolar proteins with internal disordered sequences, NUCL-1 and FIB-1, are also required for the formation of NoVs. Collectively, these findings imply a strong correlation between the organization of the nucleolus and the processing and maturation of rRNA.
They found that the appearance of NoVs is dynamic in C. elegans, which means the presence of NoVs varies in different states during development.
In addition, the researcher also gave speculations that the expression and processing of rRNAs are differentially regulated across different cell types and throughout development and aging, which induced the formation of cell-type-specific nucleolar structures and the change of NoVs during germline maturity and aging of the animals.
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)00926-9
http://sciencemission.com/site/index.php?page=news&type=view&id=publications%2Frrna-intermediates&filter=22
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