@article{BenaventeRoseReimeretal.1987, author = {Benavente, Ricardo and Rose, Kathleen M. and Reimer, Georg and H{\"u}gle-D{\"o}rr, Barbara and Scheer, Ulrich}, title = {Inhibition of nucleolar reformation after microinjection of antibodies to RNA polymerase I into mitotic cells}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33247}, year = {1987}, abstract = {The formation of daughter nuclei and the reformation of nucleolar structures was studied after microinjection of antibodies to RNA polymerase I into dividing cultured cells (PtK2). The fate of several nucleolar proteins representing the three main structural subcomponents of the nucleolus was examined by immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. The results show that the RNA polymerase I antibodies do not interfere with normal mitotic progression or the early steps of nucleologenesis, i.e. , the aggregation of nucleolar material into prenucleolar bodies. However,they inhibit the telophasic coalescence of the prenucleolar bodies into the chromosomal nucleolar organizer regions, thus preventing the formation of new nucleoli. These prenucleolar bodies show a fibrillar organization that also compositionally resembles the dense fibrillar component of interphase nucleoli . We conclude that during normal nucleologenesis the dense fibrillar component forms from preformed entities around nucleolar organizer regions, and that this association seems to be dependent on the presence of an active form of RNA polymerase I.}, language = {en} } @article{BenaventeReimerRoseetal.1988, author = {Benavente, Ricardo and Reimer, Georg and Rose, Kathleen M. and H{\"u}gle-D{\"o}rr, Barbara and Scheer, Ulrich}, title = {Nucleolar changes after microinjection of antibodies to RNA polymerase I into the nucleus of mammalian cells}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40666}, year = {1988}, abstract = {After microinjection of antibodies against RNA polymerase I into the nuclei of cultured rat kangaroo (PtKz) and rat (RVF-SMC) cells alterations in nucleolar structure and composition were observed. These were detected by electron microscopy and double-label immunofluorescence microscopy using antibodies to proteins representative of the three major components of the nucleolus. The microinjected antibodies produced a progressive loss of the material of the dense fibrillar component (DFC) from the nucleoli which, at 4 h after injection, were transformed into bodies with purely granular component (GC) structure with attached fibrillar centers (FCs). Concomitantly, numerous extranucleolar aggregates appeared in the nucleoplasm which morphologically resembled fragments of the DFC and contained a protein (fibrillarin) diagnostic for this nucleolar structure. These observations indicate that the topological distribution of the material constituting the DFC can be experimentally influenced in interphase cells, apparently by modulating the transcriptional activity of the rRNA genes. These effects are different from nucleolar lesions induced by inhibitory drugs such as actinomycin D-dependent "nucleolar segregation". The structural alterations induced by antibodies to RNA polymerase I resemble, however, the initial events of nucleolar disintegration during mitotic prophase.}, language = {en} }