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Localization and structure of snRNPs during mitosis. Immunofluorescent and biochemical studies
Authors:R Reuter  B Appel  J Rinke  R Lührmann
Institution:Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Otto Warburg Laboratorium, D-1000 Berlin 33 (Dalhem), Germany
Abstract:The distribution of U snRNAs during mitosis was studied by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy with snRNA cap-specific anti-m3G antibodies. Whereas the snRNAs are strictly nuclear at late prophase, they become distributed in the cell plasm at metaphase and anaphase. They re-enter the newly formed nuclei of the two daughter cells at early telophase, producing speckled nuclear fluorescent patterns typical of interphase cells. While the snRNAs become concentrated at the rim of the condensing chromosomes and at interchromosomal regions at late prophase, essentially no association of the snRNAs was observed with the condensed chromosomes during metaphase and anaphase. Independent immunofluorescent studies with anti-(U1)RNP autoantibodies, which react specifically with proteins unique to the U1 snRNP species, showed the same distribution of snRNP antigens during mitosis as was observed with the snRNA-specific anti-m3G antibody. Immunoprecipitation studies with anti-(U1)RNP and anti-Sm autoantibodies, as well as protein analysis of snRNPs isolated from extracts of mitotic cells, demonstrate that the snRNAs remain associated in a specific manner with the same set of proteins during interphase and mitosis. The concept that the overall structure of the snRNPs is maintained during mitosis also applies to the coexistence of the snRNAs U4 and U6 in a single ribonucleoprotein complex. Particle sedimentation studies in sucrose gradients reveal that most of the snRNPs present in sonicates of mitotic cells do not sediment as free RNP particles, but remain associated with high molecular weight (HMW) structures other than chromatin, most probably with hnRNA/RNP.
Keywords:To whom offprint requests should be sent  Address: Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik  Otto-Warburg-Laboratorium  Ihnestrasse 63–73  D-1000 Berlin 33 (West)  Germany  
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