PMID- 9880328 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990304 LR - 20231213 IS - 1059-1524 (Print) IS - 1059-1524 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 1 DP - 1999 Jan TI - Association of nonribosomal nucleolar proteins in ribonucleoprotein complexes during interphase and mitosis. PG - 77-90 AB - rRNA precursors are bound throughout their length by specific proteins, as the pre-rRNAs emerge from the transcription machinery. The association of pre-rRNA with proteins as ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes persists during maturation of 18S, 5.8S, and 28S rRNA, and through assembly of ribosomal subunits in the nucleolus. Preribosomal RNP complexes contain, in addition to ribosomal proteins, an unknown number of nonribosomal nucleolar proteins, as well as small nucleolar RNA-ribonucleoproteins (sno-RNPs). This report describes the use of a specific, rapid, and mild immunopurification approach to isolate and analyze human RNP complexes that contain nonribosomal nucleolar proteins, as well as ribosomal proteins and rRNA. Complexes immunopurified with antibodies to nucleolin-a major nucleolar RNA-binding protein-contain several distinct specific polypeptides that include, in addition to nucleolin, the previously identified nucleolar proteins B23 and fibrillarin, proteins with electrophoretic mobilities characteristic of ribosomal proteins including ribosomal protein S6, and a number of additional unidentified proteins. The physical association of these proteins with one another is mediated largely by RNA, in that the complexes dissociate upon digestion with RNase. Complexes isolated from M-phase cells are similar in protein composition to those isolated from interphase cell nuclear extracts. Therefore, the predominant proteins that associate with nucleolin in interphase remain in RNP complexes during mitosis, despite the cessation of rRNA synthesis and processing in M-phase. In addition, precursor rRNA, as well as processed 18S and 28S rRNA and candidate rRNA processing intermediates, is found associated with the immunopurified complexes. The characteristics of the rRNP complexes described here, therefore, indicate that they represent bona fide precursors of mature cytoplasmic ribosomal subunits. FAU - Pinol-Roma, S AU - Pinol-Roma S AD - Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029-6574, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Mol Biol Cell JT - Molecular biology of the cell JID - 9201390 RN - 0 (Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone) RN - 0 (DNA Probes) RN - 0 (Macromolecular Substances) RN - 0 (Npm1 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Nuclear Proteins) RN - 0 (Phosphoproteins) RN - 0 (RNA Precursors) RN - 0 (RNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Ribonucleoproteins) RN - 0 (Ribosomal Protein S6) RN - 0 (Ribosomal Proteins) RN - 0 (fibrillarin) RN - 117896-08-9 (Nucleophosmin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - DNA Probes/genetics MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - Interphase/*physiology MH - Macromolecular Substances MH - Mice MH - Mitosis/*physiology MH - Nuclear Proteins/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - Nucleophosmin MH - Phosphoproteins/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - RNA Precursors/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - RNA-Binding Proteins/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Ribonucleoproteins/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - Ribosomal Protein S6 MH - Ribosomal Proteins/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Ribosomes/chemistry/metabolism MH - Nucleolin PMC - PMC25155 EDAT- 1999/01/08 00:00 MHDA- 1999/01/08 00:01 CRDT- 1999/01/08 00:00 PHST- 1999/01/08 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/01/08 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/01/08 00:00 [entrez] AID - 0766 [pii] AID - 10.1091/mbc.10.1.77 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Biol Cell. 1999 Jan;10(1):77-90. doi: 10.1091/mbc.10.1.77.