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Svetlana Deryusheva1, Joseph G Gall1
1Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Abstract:
Posttranscriptional modifications of rRNA occur in the nucleolus where rRNA modification guide RNAs, or snoRNAs, concentrate. On the other hand, scaRNAs, the modification guide RNAs for spliceosomal snRNAs, concentrate in the Cajal body (CB). It is generally assumed, therefore, that snRNAs must accumulate in CBs to be modified by scaRNAs. Here we demonstrate that the evidence for the latter postulate is not consistent. In the nucleus, scaRNA localization is not limited to CBs. Furthermore, canonical scaRNAs can modify rRNAs. We suggest that the conventional view that scaRNAs function only in the CB needs revision.
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