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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Nuclear speckles: dynamic hubs of gene expression regulation
Contributor:
Ilık, İbrahim Avşar;
Aktaş, Tuğçe
Published:
Wiley, 2022
Published in:
The FEBS Journal, 289 (2022) 22, Seite 7234-7245
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/febs.16117
ISSN:
1742-464X;
1742-4658
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Complex, multistep biochemical reactions that routinely take place in our cells require high concentrations of enzymes, substrates, and other structural components to proceed efficiently and typically require chemical environments that can inhibit other reactions in their immediate vicinity. Eukaryotic cells solve these problems by restricting such reactions into diffusion‐restricted compartments within the cell called organelles that can be separated from their environment by a lipid membrane, or into membrane‐less compartments that form through liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). One of the most easily noticeable and the earliest discovered organelle is the nucleus, which harbors the genetic material in cells where transcription by RNA polymerases produces most of the messenger RNAs and a plethora of noncoding RNAs, which in turn are required for translation of mRNAs in the cytoplasm. The interior of the nucleus is not a uniform soup of biomolecules and rather consists of a variety of membrane‐less bodies, such as the nucleolus, nuclear speckles (NS), paraspeckles, Cajal bodies, histone locus bodies, and more. In this review, we will focus on NS with an emphasis on recent developments including our own findings about the formation of NS by two large IDR‐rich proteins SON and SRRM2.</jats:p>