minifly, A Drosophila gene required for ribosome biogenesis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1123-1133

  Giordano, Ennio ^a   Peluso, Ivana ^a   Senger, Stefania ^a   Furia, Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Genetica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Nucleolus; Ribosome; rRNA; snoRNA

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA GENE; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033594085     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.144.6.1123     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Abrams, J.M., K. White, L.I. Fessler, and H. Steller. 1993. Programmed cell death during Drosophila oogenesis. Development. 117:29-43.
2. Ashburner, M. 1989. Drosophila: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 434 pp.
3. Bachellerie, J.P., and J. Cavaille. 1997. Guiding ribose methylation of rRNA. Trends Biochem Sci. 22:257-261.
4. Bakin, A., and J. Ofengand. 1993. Four newly located pseudouridylate residues in Escherichia coli 23S ribosomal RNA are all at the peptidyltransferase center: analysis by the application of a new sequencing technique. Biochemistry. 32:9754-9762.
5. Balakin, A.G., L. Smith, and M.J. Fournier. 1996. The RNA world of the nucleolus: two major families of small RNAs defined by different box elements with related functions. Cell. 86:823-834.
6. Boncinelli, E., F. Graziani, L. Polito, C. Malva, and F. Ritossa. 1972. rDNA magnification at the bobbed locus of the Y chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster. Cell Differ. 1:133-142.
7. Bousquet-Antonelli, C., Y. Henry, J.P. Gèlugne, M. Caizergues-Ferrer, and T. Kiss. 1997. A small nucleolar RNP protein is required for pseudouridylation of eukaryotic ribosomal RNAs. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol. Organ.) J. 16:4770-4776.
8. Cadwell, C., H.J. Yoon, Y. Zebarjadian, and J. Carbon. 1997. The yeast nucleolar protein Cbf5p is involved in rRNA biosynthesis and interacts genetically with the RNA polymerase I transcription factor RRN3. Mol. Cell Biol. 17:6175-6183.
9. Calvi, B.R., M.A. Lilly, and A.C. Spradling. 1998. Cell cycle control of chorion gene amplification. Genes Dev. 12:734-744.
10. Fletcher, J.C., K.C. Burtis, D.S. Hogness, and C.S. Thummel. 1995. The Drosophila E74 gene is required for metamorphosis and plays a role in the polytene chromosome puffing response to ecdysone. Development. 121:1455-1465.
11. Foley, K., and L. Cooley. 1998. Apoptosis in late stages Drosophila nurse cells does not require genes within the H99 deficiency. Development. 125:1075-1082.
12. Ganot, P., M.L. Bortolin, and T. Kiss. 1997a. Site-specific pseudouridine formation in preribosomal RNA is guided by small nucleolar RNAs. Cell. 89:799-809.
13. Ganot, P., M. Caizergues-Ferrer, and T. Kiss. 1997b. The family of box ACA small nucleolar RNAs is defined by an evolutionary conserved secondary structure and ubiquitous sequence elements essential for RNA accumulation. Genes Dev. 11:941-956.
14. Girard, J.P., H. Lehtonen, M. Caizergues-Ferrer, F. Amalric, D. Tollervey, and B. Lapeyre. 1992. GAR1 is an essential small nucleolar RNP protein required for pre-rRNA processing in yeast. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol. Organ.) J. 11:673-682.
15. Heiss, N.S., S.W. Knight, T.J. Vulliamy, S.M. Klauck, S. Wiemann, P.J. Mason, A. Poustka, and I. Dokal. 1998. X-linked dyskeratosis congenita is caused by mutations in a highly conserved gene with putative nucleolar functions. Nat. Genet. 19:32-38.
16. Jiang, W., K. Middleton, H.J. Yoon, C. Fouquet, and J. Carbon. 1993. An essential yeast protein, CBF5p, binds in vitro to centromeres and microtubules. Mol. Cell Biol. 13:4884-4893.
17. Kavli, B., G. Slupphaug, C.D. Mol, A.S. Arvai, S.B. Peterson, J.A. Tainer, and H.E. Krokan. 1996. Excision of cytosine and thymine from DNA by mutants of human uracil-DNA glycosylase. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol. Organ.) J. 15: 3442-3447.
18. Kay, M.A., and M. Jacobs-Lorena. 1985. Selective translational regulation of ribosomal protein gene expression during early development of Drosophila melanogaster. Mol. Cell Biol. 5:3583-3592.
19. King, R.C. 1970. Ovarian Development of Drosophila melanogaster. New York Academic Press.
20. Kiss-Laszlo, Z., Y. Henry, J.P. Bachellerie, M. Caizergues-Ferrer, and T. Kiss. 1996. Site-specific ribose methylation of preribosomal RNA: a novel function for small nucleolar RNAs. Cell. 85:1077-1088.
21. Lafontaine, D.L.J., C. Bousquet-Antonelli, Y. Henry, M. Caizergues-Ferrer, and D. Tollervey. 1998. The box H + ACA snoRNAs carry Cbf5p, the putative rRNA pseudouridine synthase. Genes Dev. 12:527-537.
22. Lane, B.G., J. Ofengand, and M.W. Gray. 1995. Pseudouridine and O2′-methylated nucleosides. Significance of their selective occurrence in rRNA domains that function in ribosome-catalyzed synthesis of the peptide bonds in proteins. Biochimie. 77:7-15.
23. Laski, F.A., D.C. Rio, and G. M Rubin. 1986. Tissue specificity of Drosophila P-element transposition is regulated at the level of mRNA splicing. Cell. 44: 7-19.
24. Lindsley, D.L., and G.G. Zimm. 1992. The genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Academic Press Inc., San Diego, California.
25. Long, E.O., and I.B. Dawid. 1980. Alternative pathways in the processing of ribosomal RNA precursor in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Mol. Biol. 138:873-878.
26. Luzzatto, L., and A. Karadimitris. 1998. Dyskeratosis and ribosomal rebellion. Nat. Genet. 19:6-7.
27. Maden, B.E. 1990. The numerous modified nucleotides in eukaryotic ribosomal RNA. Prog. Nucleic Acid Res. Mol. Biol. 39:241-303.
28. Meier, U.T., and G. Blobel. 1994. NAP57, a mammalian nucleolar protein with a putative homolog in yeast and bacteria. J. Cell Biol. 127:1505-1514.
29. Melese, T., and Z. Xue. 1995. The nucleolus: an organelle formed by the act of building a ribosome. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 7:319-324.
30. Morrissey, J.P., and D. Tollervey. 1993. Yeast snR30 is a small nucleolar RNA required for 18S rRNA synthesis. Mol. Cell Biol. 13:2469-2477.
31. Ni, J., A.L. Tien, and M.J. Fournier. 1997. Small nucleolar RNAs direct site-specific synthesis of pseudouridine in ribosomal RNA. Cell. 89:565-573.
32. Nicoloso, M., L.H. Qu, B. Michot, and J.P. Bachellerie. 1996. Intron-encoded, antisense small nucleolar RNAs: the characterization of nine novel species points to their direct role as guides for the 2′-O-ribose methylation of rRNAs. J. Mol. Biol. 260:178-195.
33. O'Connell, P.O., and M. Rosbash. 1984. Sequence, structure, and codon preference of the Drosophila ribosomal protein 49 gene. Nucleic Acids Res. 12: 5495-5513.
34. O'Kane, C.J., and W.J. Gehring. 1987. Detection in situ of genomic regulatory elements in Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 84:9123-9127.
35. Ofengand, J., and A. Bakin. 1997. Mapping to nucleotide resolution of pseudouridine residues in large subunit ribosomal RNAs from representative eukaryotes, prokaryotes, archaebacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts. J. Mol. Biol. 266:246-268.
36. Ofengand, J., A. Bakin, J. Wrzesinski, K. Nurse, and B.G. Lane. 1995. The pseudouridine residues of ribosomal RNA. Biochem. Cell Biol. 73:915-924.
37. Procunier, J.D., and K.D. Tartof. 1975. Genetic analysis of the 5S RNA genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 81:515-523.
38. Robertson, H.M., C.R. Preston, R.W. Phillis, D.M. Johnson-Schlitz, W.K. Benz, and W.R. Engels. 1988. A stable genomic source of P element transposase in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 118:461-470.
39. Rubin, G.M., and A.C. Spradling. 1982. Genetic transformation of Drosophila with transposable element vectors. Science. 218:348-353.
40. Sambrook, J., E.F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 2nd edition. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. 545 pp.
41. Slupphaug, G., C.D. Mol, B. Kavli, A.S. Arvai, H.E. Krokan, and J.A. Tainer. 1996. A nucleotide-flipping mechanism from the structure of human uracil-DNA glycosylase bound to DNA. Nature. 384:87-92.
42. Smith, C.M., and J.A. Steitz. 1997. Sno storm in the nucleolus: new roles for myriad small RNPs. Cell. 89:669-672.
43. Spradling, A. 1993. Developmental genetics of oogenesis. In Drosophila Development. M. Bate, and A. Martines-Arias, editors. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. 1-70.
44. Spreji, T.E. 1971. Cell death during the development of imaginal discs of Calliphora erytrocephala. Netherlands J. Zool. 21:221-264.
45. Thummel, C.S., A.M. Boulet, and H.D. Lipshitz. 1988. Vectors for Drosophila P-element-mediated transformation and tissue culture transfection. Gene. 74:445-456.
46. Tollervey, D. 1987. A yeast small nuclear RNA is required for normal processing of pre-ribosomal RNA. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol. Organ.) J. 6:4169-4175.
47. Tollervey, D., and C. Guthrie. 1985. Deletion of a yeast small nuclear RNA gene impairs growth. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol. Organ.) J. 4:3873-3878.
48. Torok, T., G. Tick, M. Alvarado, and I. Kiss. 1993. P-lacW insertional mutagenesis on the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, isolation of lethals with different overgrowth phenotypes. Genetics. 135:71-80.
49. Tower, J., G.H. Karpen, N. Craig, and A.C. Spradling. 1993. Preferential transposition of Drosophila P-elements to nearby chromosomal sites. Genetics. 133:347-359.
50. Wertz, I.E., and M.R. Hanley. 1996. Diverse molecular provocation of programmed cell death. Trends Biochem Sci. 21:359-364.
51. Winkles, J.A., W.H. Phillips, and R.M. Grainger. 1985. Drosophila ribosomal RNA stability increases during slow growth conditions. J. Biol. Chem. 260: 7716-7720.