Emerging roles of nuclear bodies in genome spatial organization

Nuclear bodies (NBs) are biomolecular condensates that participate in various cellular processes and respond to cellular stimuli in the nucleus. The assembly and function of these protein- and RNA-rich bodies, such as nucleoli, nuclear speckles, and promyelocytic leukemia (PML) NBs, contribute to the spatial organization of the nucleus, regulating chromatin activities locally and globally. Recent technological advancements, including spatial multiomics approaches, have revealed novel roles of nucleoli in modulating ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and adjacent non-rDNA chromatin activity, nuclear speckles in scaffolding active genome architecture, and PML NBs in maintaining genome stability during stress conditions. In this review, we summarize emerging functions of these important NBs in the spatial organization of the genome, aided by recently developed spatial multiomics approaches toward this direction.