Ultrastructural localization of nucleic acid sequences in Saccharomyces cerevisiae nucleoli |
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Authors: | Nadja Dvorkin Michael W Clark Barbara A Hamkalo |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, 92717 Irvine, CA, USA;(2) Department of Biology, McGill University, H3A 1B1 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Abstract: | The putative nucleolus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is visible in electron micrographs as a darkly stained, crescent-shaped structure associated with the nuclear envelope. The haploid yeast genome contains 100 200 tandem copies of a 9.1 kb ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeat predicted to reside in this structure. We combined in situ hybridization of non-isotopically labeled probes to isolated S. cerevisiae nuclei with immunogold detection to localize rDNA and rRNA precursor sequences in nuclei at the electron microscope (EM) level. Gold particles are restricted to defined regions of nuclei which appear more electron dense than the bulk of the nucleus and which generally exhibit the crescent shape typical of the structure thought to be the nucleolus. In addition, snR17, the yeast homolog of mammalian U3, a nucleolar-restricted small nuclear RNA (snRNA), was localized to the same electron dense region of the nucleus. These data, in conjunction with published immunofluorescent localizations of nucleolarassociated antigens, provide definitive proof that the dense crescent is the nucleolus. Finally, the technique described is applicable to probing nuclear organization in a genetically manipulable system.Abbreviations snRNA
small nuclear RNA
- AAF
N-acetoxy-2-acetyl-aminofluorence
by M.L. Pardue |
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