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Nucleation by rRNA Dictates the Precision of Nucleolus Assembly #MMPMID26776729
Falahati H; Pelham-Webb B; Blythe S; Wieschaus E
Curr Biol 2016[Feb]; 26 (3): 277-85 PMID26776729show ga
Membrane-less organelles are intracellular compartments specialized to carry out specific cellular functions. There is growing evidence supporting the possibility that such organelles form as a new phase, separating from cytoplasm or nucleoplasm. However, a main challenge to such phase separation models is that the initial assembly, or nucleation, of the new phase is typically a highly stochastic process, and does not allow for the spatiotemporal precision observed in biological systems. Here we investigate the initial assembly of the nucleolus, a membrane-less organelle involved in different cellular functions including ribosomal biogenesis. We demonstrate that the nucleolus formation is precisely timed in D. melanogaster embryos and follows the transcription of rRNA. We provide evidence that transcription of rRNA is necessary for overcoming the highly stochastic nucleation step in the formation of the nucleolus, through a seeding mechanism. In the absence of rDNA, the nucleolar proteins studied are able to form high concentration assemblies. However, unlike the nucleolus, these assemblies are highly variable in number, location and time at which they form. In addition, quantitative study of the changes in the nucleoplasmic concentration and distribution of these nucleolar proteins in the wild-type embryos is consistent with the role of rRNA in seeding the nucleolus formation.
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