@article{BonaScheerBautz1981,
  author    = {Bona, Marion and Scheer, Ulrich and Bautz, Ekkehard K. F.},
  title     = {Antibodies to RNA polymerase II (B) inhibit transcription in lampbrush chromosomes after microinjection into living amphibian oocytes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33128},
  year      = {1981},
  abstract  = {Antibodies directed against RNA polymerase II (B) from Drosophila melanogaster were obtained from rabbit sera and, as monoclonal immunoglobulins, from mouse hybridomas and shown to cross-react with the amphibian enzyme protein. Localization by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy revealed the association of this enzyme with chromatin of interphase nuclei of amphibian cells and its absence in nucleoli. Purified immunoglobulins were microinjected in to nuclei ofliving vitellogenic oocytes of Ple1lrodeles waltlii and X enopus laevis and their effects on transcriptional processes were monitored by biochemical and light and electron microscopic stud ies. RNA polymerase II antibodies from rabbit sera caused a rapid and almost complete release of nascent transcripts from the chromatin axis of the loops of lampbrush chromosomes, followed by collapse of the loops and their retraction on the main chromosome axis. Monoclonal murine antibodies to the Iarge RNA polymerase II subunits also inhibited transcription in chromosome Ioops but appeared to inhibit initiation rather than elongation events. Activities of class land III RNA polymerases were not significantly affected by injection of antibodies to polymerase II, indicating immunological differences between the three RNA polymerases. The potential value of the in vitro test system described , as a very sensitive assay for detecting proteins involved in transcription in living cells, is discussed. 1},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{TrendelenburgScheerZentgrafetal.1976,
  author    = {Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Franke, Werner W.},
  title     = {Heterogeneity of spacer lengths in circles of amplified ribosomal DNA of two insect species, Dytiscus marginalis and Acheta domesticus},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33055},
  year      = {1976},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ScheerZentgrafSauer1981,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Sauer, Helmut W.},
  title     = {Different chromatin structures in Physarum polycephalum: a special form of transcriptionally active chromatin devoid of nucleosomal particles},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33148},
  year      = {1981},
  abstract  = {Nonnucleolar chromatin from interphase nuclei of Physarum polycephalum plasmodia occurs in two different structural configurations as seen in electron microscopic spread preparations. While the majority of the chromatin is devoid of nascent ribonucleoprotein (RNP) fibrils and compacted into nucleosomal particles, a minor proportion (10- 20\%) is organized differently and reveals a smooth contour. It is this form of smooth chromatin which is rich in transcription units (mean length: 1.36±0.21 11m). Only occasionally are solitary nascent RNP fibrils observed which are associated with beaded strands of chromatin. In transcribed smooth chromatin nucleosomal particles are not only absent from the transcription units but also from their nontranscribed flan king regions, indicating that this special structural aspect is not merely a direct consequence of the transcriptional process. The existence of ca. 10- 20\% of Physarum chromatin in the smoothly contoured form is discussed in relation to reports of a preferential digestibility of a similar proportion of Physarum chromatin by DNAse I (Jalouzot et al. , 1980) and to the altered configuration of "peak A" chromatin subunits after micrococcal nuclease digestion (Johnson et al., 1978a, b).},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ScheerZentgraf1978,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Zentgraf, Hanswalter},
  title     = {Nucleosomal and supranucleosomal organization of transcriptionally inactive rDNA circles in Dytiscus oocytes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33188},
  year      = {1978},
  abstract  = {Oocytes of the water beetle, Dytiscus marginalis, contain large amounts of rDNA most of which is present in the form of rings containing one or several pre-rRNA genes. Electron microscopy of spread preparations of vitellogenic oocytes has shown that the rDNA is extended in chromatin rings with transcribed pre- rRNA genes and is not packed into nucleosomes (Trendelenburg eta!. , 1976). When similar preparations are made from previtellogenic ooytes in which a large proportion of the nuc1eolar chromatin is transcriptionally inactive, a different morphological form of this chromatin is recognized. In contrast to the transcribed chromatin rings the inactive nucleolar chromatin circles show the characteristic beaded configuration, indicative of nucleosomal packing. Nuc1eosomal packing is also indicated by the comparison of the lengths of these chromatin rings with both iso lated rDNA circ1es and transcribed chromatin rings. In addition, these inactive nuc1eofilaments often appear to be compacted into globular higher order structures of diameters from 21 to 34nm, each composed of an aggregate of 6-9 nuc1eosomes. While the estimated reduction of the overall length of rDNA, as seen in our preparations, is, on the average, only 2.2 - 2.4 fold in the nuc1eosomal state it is 10- 13 fold when supranuc1eosomal globules are present. These data show that the extrachromosomal rDNA of these oocytes goes through a cycle of condensation and extensio n, as a function of the specific transcriptional activity, and that the beaded state described here is exc1usively found in the non-transcribed state.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ScheerTrendelenburgKrohneetal.1977,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Krohne, Georg and Franke, Werner W.},
  title     = {Lengths and patterns of transcriptional units in the amplified nucleoli of oocytes of Xenopus laevis},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33069},
  year      = {1977},
  abstract  = {Transcriptionally active chromatin from peripheral amplified nuc1eoli of lampbrush-chromosome stage oocytes of Xenopus laevis was dispersed and spread in various solutions of low salt concentrations (incIuding some with additions of detergents) and examined by electron microscopy. Nucleolar material from oocytes of animals with normal (2-nu) and mutant (I-nu) genetical constitution of nucleolus organizers was compared. Histograms showing the distributions of the lengths of matrix units, apparent spacer intercepts, and the total repeating units of the rDNA containing chromatin axes revealed a significant degree of heterogeneity, with indications of subclasses and predominant repeat unit size c1asses of 3.3 and 3.8 11m length. The correspondence of matrix unit length to the molecular weight of the first stable product of rDNA transcription was studied using gel electrophoresis of labelIed pre-rRNA under non-denaturing and denaturing conditions. Evaluations of individual strands of nucleolar chromatin furt her demonstrated the existence of both (i) strands with obviously homogeneous repeating units and (ii) strands with intra-axial heterogeneity of rDNA subunits. " Preludecomplexes ", i.e. groups of transcriptional complexes in apparent spacer intercepts, were not infrequently noted. The data are compared with the measurements of lengths of repeating units in fragments of rDNA obtained by digestion with EcoRI endonuclease as described by Morrow et al. (1974) and Wellauer et al. (1974, 1976a, b). The results are discussed in relation to problems of variations in the modes of arrangement of the pre-rRNA genes, the state of packing of rDNA during transcription, and possible mechanisms of the amplification process.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ZentgrafMuellerScheeretal.1981,
  author    = {Zentgraf, H. and M{\"u}ller, U. and Scheer, Ulrich and Franke, W. W.},
  title     = {Evidence for the existence of globular units in the supranucleosomal organization of chromatin},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-34123},
  year      = {1981},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KrohneFrankeScheer1978,
  author    = {Krohne, Georg and Franke, Werner W. and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {The major polypeptides of the nuclear pore complex},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33078},
  year      = {1978},
  abstract  = {Nuclear envelopes of maturing oocytes of various amphibia contain an unusually high number of pore complexes in very close packing. Consequently, nuclear envelopes , which can be manually isolated in great purity, provide a remarkable enrichment of nuclear pore complex material, relative to membranous and other interporous structures. When the polypeptides of nuclear envelopes isolated from oocytes of Xenopl/s la evis and Triturus alpestris are examined by gel electrophoresis, visualized either by staining with Coomassie blue or by radiotluorography after in vitro reaction with [3H]dansyl chloride , a characteristic pattern is obtained (10 major and 15 minor bands). This polypeptide pattern is radically different from that of the nuclear contents isolated from the same cell. Extraction of the nuclear envelope with high salt concentrations and moderateIy ac tive detergents such as Triton X- 100 results in the removal of membrane material but leaves most of the non-membranous structure of the pore complexes. The dry weight of the pore complex (about 0.2 femtograms) remains essentially unchanged during such extractions as measured by quantitative electron microscopy . The extracted preparations which are highly enriched in nuclear pore complex material contain only two major polypeptide components with apparent molecular weights of 150000 and 73000. Components of such an electrophoretic mobility are not present as major bands , if at all , in nuclear contents extracted in the same way. lt is concluded that these two polypeptides are the major constituent protein(s) of the oocyte nuclear pore complex and are specific for this structure. When nuclear envelopes are isolated from rat liver and extracted with high salt buffers and Triton X- 100 similar bands are predominant, but two additional major components of molecular weights of 78000 and 66000 are also recognized. When the rat liver nuclear membranes are further subfractionated material enriched in the 66000 molecular weight component can be separated from the membrane material, indicating that this is relatively loosely associated material , probably a part of the nuclear matrix . The results suggest that the nuclear pore complex is not only a characteristic ubiquitous structure but also contains similar, if not identical , skeletal proteins that are remarkably re sistant to drastic changes of ionic strength as weil as to treatments with detergents and thiol reagents.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ScheerSommerville1982,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Sommerville, John},
  title     = {Sizes of chromosome loops and hnRNA molecules in oocytes of amphibia of different genome sizes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33094},
  year      = {1982},
  abstract  = {The lengths of lampbrush chromosome loops and their tran scription units show a positive correlation with genome size in oocytes of amphibia with different C values. However, there is no such correlation with contour lengths of hnRNA molecu les isolated from these oocytes. These results indi cate th at more ON A sequences are transcribed in amphibia of higher C value , but that processing of RNA transc ripts occurs while they are still attached to the chromosomes as nascent ribonucleoprotein fibrils.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RunggerCrippaTrendelenburgetal.1978,
  author    = {Rungger, M. and Crippa, M. and Trendelenburg, M. F. and Scheer, Ulrich and Franke, Werner W.},
  title     = {Visualization of rDNA spacer transcription in Xenopus oocytes treated with fluorouridine},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33082},
  year      = {1978},
  abstract  = {Under the intluence of 5-tluoro-uridine, the ultrastructure of the rDNA transcription units in Xenopus oocytes is altered. Whereas part of the matrix units maintains anormal aspect or shows various degrees of inhibition, in a strong proportion of the transcription units the alternating pattern of matrix units and fibril-free spacer regions is no longer recognized. Transcriptional complexes are found along the entire DNP axis, including the regions of the spacers. These observations support biochemical data on transcription in rDNA spacer region.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{DabauvalleSchulzScheeretal.1988,
  author    = {Dabauvalle, Marie-Christine and Schulz, Barbara and Scheer, Ulrich and Peters, Reiner},
  title     = {Inhibition of nuclear accumulation of karyophilic proteins in living cells by microinjection of the lectin wheat germ agglutinin},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-34288},
  year      = {1988},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{ScheerTrendelenburgFranke1976,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Trendelenburg, M. F. and Franke, Werner W.},
  title     = {Regulation of transcription of ribosomal RNA genes during amphibian oogenesis},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33700},
  year      = {1976},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FrankeScheer1975,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {Biochemical and structural aspects of nucleocytoplasmic transfer of ribonucleoproteins at the nuclear envelope level: facts and theses},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33766},
  year      = {1975},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{TrendelenburgFrankeSpringetal.1975,
  author    = {Trendelenburg, M. F. and Franke, Werner W. and Spring, H. and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {Ultrastructure of transcription in the nucleoli of the green algae Acetabularia major and A. mediterranea},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33779},
  year      = {1975},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FrankeScheer1974,
  author    = {Franke, Werner W. and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {Pathways of nucleocytoplasmic translocation of ribonucleoproteins},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33832},
  year      = {1974},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ScheerLanfranchiRoseetal.1983,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Lanfranchi, Gerolamo and Rose, Kathleen M. and Franke, Werner W. and Ringertz, Nils R.},
  title     = {Migration of rat RNA polymerase I into chick erythrocyte nuclei undergoing reactivation in chick-rat heterokaryons},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33232},
  year      = {1983},
  abstract  = {Transcriptionally inactive chick erythrocyte nudei were reactivated by Sendai virusinduced fusion of erythrocytes with rat L6j1 myoblasts. We used antibodies to trace the appearance of a specific protein engaged in transcription of a defined dass of genes, those coding for rRNA, during reactivation. Using immunofluorescence microscopy, we found increasing amounts of rat RNA polymerase I to appear, during a certain period of time after fusion, in the reforming nudeoli of the chick nudei. Amounts of rat RNA polymerase I sufficient to be detected by immunofluorescence microscopy had accumulated in the newly developed chick nudeoli 72- 190 h after fusion was initiated. This time interval coincides with the time when chick rRNA synthesis can first be detected. The results raise the possibility that during these stages of the reactivation process chick rRNA genes are transcribed by heterologous RNA polymerase I moleeules of rat origin.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ScheerHuegleHazanetal.1984,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and H{\"u}gle, Barbara and Hazan, Rachel and Rose, Kathleen M.},
  title     = {Drug-induced dispersal of transcribed rRNA genes and transcriptional products: Immunolocalization and silver staining of different nucleolar components in rat cells treated with 5,6-dichloro-1-Beta-D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33216},
  year      = {1984},
  abstract  = {Upon incubation of cultured rat cells with the adenosine analogue 5,6-dichloro-l-\&\#946;- D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole (DRB), nucleoli reversibly dissociate into their substructures, disperse throughout the nuclear interior, and form nucleolar "necklaces". We have used this experimental system, which does not inhibit transcription of the rRNA genes, to study by immunocytochemistry the distribution of active rRNA genes and their transcriptional products during nucleolar dispersal and recovery to normal morphology. Antibodies to RNA polymerase I allow detection of template-engaged polymerase, and monoclonal antibodies to a ribosomal protein (S 1) of the small ribosomal subunit permit localization of nucleolar preribosomal particles. The results show that, under the action of DRB transcribed rRNA, genes spread throughout the nucleoplasm and finally appear in the form of several rows, each containing several (up to 30) granules positive for RNA polymerase land argyrophilic proteins. Nucleolar material containing preribosomal particles also appears in granular structures spread over the nucleoplasm but its distribution is distinct from that of rRNA gene-containing granules. We conclude that, although transcriptional units and preribosomal particles are both redistributed in response to DRB, these entities retain their individuality as functionally defined subunits. We further propose that each RNA polymerase-positive granular unit represents a single transcription unit and that each continuous array of granules ("string of nucleolar beads") reflects the linear distribution of rRNA genes along a nucleolar organizer region. Based on the total number of polymerase I-positive granules we estimate that a minimum of 60 rRNA genes are active during interphase of DRB-treated rat cells.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ZentgrafTrendelenburgSpringetal.1979,
  author    = {Zentgraf, Hanswalter and Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Spring, Herbert and Scheer, Ulrich and Franke, Werner W. and M{\"u}ller, Ulrike and Drury, Kenneth C. and Rungger, Duri},
  title     = {Mitochondrial DNA arranged into chromatin-like structures after injection into amphibian oocyte nuclei},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33174},
  year      = {1979},
  abstract  = {Purified mitochondrial DNA (mitDNA) from ovaries ofXenopus lae vis was injected into the nuclei (germinal vesicles) of large viteUogenic oocytes of the same organism and examined by electron microscopy ofthe spread nuclear contents. Normally located nuclei of untreated oocytes as weil as peripherally translocated nuclei of centrifuged oocytes were used. In addition, oocyte nuclei isolated and incubated under liquid paraffin oil were injected with DNA. The integrity oftranscriptional structures of endogenous chromosomal (Iampbrush chromosomes) and extrachromosomal (nucleoli) genes of the injected nuclei was demonstrated. Microinjected mitDN A was identified as circles of chromatin exhibiting polynucleosome-like organization and a me an contour length of 2.6 J.Lm, corresponding to a compaction ratio of the mitDN A of about 2 : I. This DNA packing ratio is similar to that observed after preparation of various kinds of native chromatin in low salt buffers. The chromatin circles formed from injected mitDNA only very rarely exhibited lateral fibrils suggestive of transcriptional activity. These results suggest that purified mitDNA can be transformed to normally structured chromatin when exposed to oocyte nuclear contents but is rarely , if at all , transcribed in this form and in this environment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{ScheerRose1984,
  author    = {Scheer, Ulrich and Rose, Kathleen M.},
  title     = {Localization of RNA polymerase I in interphase cells and mitotic chromosomes by light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33223},
  year      = {1984},
  abstract  = {Rabbit antibodies to RNA polymerase I from a rat hepatoma have been used to localize the enzyme in a variety of cells at the light and electron microscopic level. In interphase cells the immunofluorescence pattern indicated that polymerase I is contained exclusively within the nucleolus. That this fluorescence, which appeared punctated rather than uniform, represented transcriptional complexes of RNA polymerase I and rRNA genes was suggested by the observation that it was enhanced in regenerating liver and in a hepatoma and was markedly diminished in cells treated with actinomycin D. Electron microscopic immunolocalization using gold-coupled second antibodies showed that transcribed rRNA genes are located in, and probably confined to, the fibrillar centers of the nucleolus. In contrast, the surrounding dense fibrillar component, previously thought to be the site of nascent prerRNA, did not contain detectable amounts of polymerase I. During mitosis, polymerase I molecules were detected by immunofluorescence microscopy at the chromosomal nucleolus organizer region, indicating that a considerable quantity of the enzyme remains bound to the rRNA genes. From this we conclude that rRNA genes loaded with polymerase I molecules are transmitted from one cell generation to the next one and that factors other than the polymerase itself are involved in the modulation of transcription of DNA containing rRNA genes during the cell cycle.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MorenoDiazdelaEspinaFrankeKrohneetal.1982,
  author    = {Moreno-Diaz de la Espina, Susana and Franke, Werner W. and Krohne, Georg and Trendelenburg, Michael F. and Grund, Christine and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {Medusoid fibril bodies: a novel type of nuclear filament of diameter 8 to 12 nm with periodic ultrastructure demonstrated in oocytes of Xenopus laevis},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-34116},
  year      = {1982},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HadjiolovaRoseScheer1986,
  author    = {Hadjiolova, Krassimira and Rose, Kathleen M. and Scheer, Ulrich},
  title     = {Immunolocalization of nucleolar proteins after D-galactosamine-induced inhibition of transcription in rat hepatocytes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33205},
  year      = {1986},
  abstract  = {No abstract available},
  language  = {en}
}