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ArticleCell reports2018

Diverse Regulators of Human Ribosome Biogenesis Discovered by Changes in Nucleolar Number.

Katherine I Farley-Barnes, Kathleen L McCann, Lisa M Ogawa, Janie Merkel, Yulia V Surovtseva, Susan J Baserga

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Article in Cell reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katherine I Farley-BarnesDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Kathleen L McCannDepartment of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, PO Box 12233 MD F3-05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.
Lisa M OgawaDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Janie MerkelYale Center for Molecular Discovery, Yale University, 600 West Campus Drive, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Yulia V SurovtsevaYale Center for Molecular Discovery, Yale University, 600 West Campus Drive, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Susan J BasergaDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: susan.baserga@yale.edu.
Yale University · US

Funding

Skill Development for Diverse Scientific Careers: A New Course Predoctoral Program in Cellular and Molecular BiologyT32GM007223 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BASERGA, SUSAN J · 1985 to 2019
$31.0M
Key factors in human ribosome biogenesisR01GM115710 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BASERGA, SUSAN J · 2015 to 2018
$1.6M
A New Role for the PAX9 Protein in Ribosome BiogenesisR01GM122926 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BASERGA, SUSAN J · 2017 to 2019
$663k
The intersection of Alzheimer’s disease and ribosome biogenesis through Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein Binding Family B Member 1 (APBB1; FE65)F31AG058405 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MCLEAN, LISA OGAWA · 2017 to 2020
$128k
PAX9, ribosome biogenesis, and congenital diseaseF31DE026946 · NIDCR · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FARLEY, KATHERINE IRENE · 2017 to 2019
$81k
NIA NIH HHS F31 AG058405NIDCR NIH HHS F31 DE026946NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115710NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122926NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007223
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ribosome biogenesis is a highly regulated, essential cellular process. Although studies in yeast have established some of the biological principles of ribosome biogenesis, many of the intricacies of its regulation in higher eukaryotes remain unknown. To understand how ribosome biogenesis is globally integrated in human cells, we conducted a genome-wide siRNA screen for regulators of nucleolar number. We found 139 proteins whose depletion changed the number of nucleoli per nucleus from 2-3 to only 1 in human MCF10A cells. Follow-up analyses on 20 hits found many (90%) to be essential for the nucleolar functions of rDNA transcription (7), pre-ribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) processing (16), and/or global protein synthesis (14). This genome-wide analysis exploits the relationship between nucleolar number and function to discover diverse cellular pathways that regulate the making of ribosomes and paves the way for further exploration of the links between ribosome biogenesis and human disease.

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Organelle BiogenesisCell LineCell NucleolusGenome, HumanHumansProtein BiosynthesisRibosomesRNA, Small InterferingTranscription, GeneticRNA, Small Interferinggenome-widenucleolusribosome biogenesisRNAi screen

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PMID29444442
PMCPMC5828527
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