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ArticleEpigenetics & chromatin2021

Revealing RCOR2 as a regulatory component of nuclear speckles.

Carlos Rivera, Daniel Verbel-Vergara, Duxan Arancibia, Anna Lappala, Marcela González, Fabián Guzmán, Gianluca Merello, Jeannie T Lee, María Estela Andrés

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Article in Epigenetics & chromatin, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Carlos Rivera *Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, 8320000, Santiago, Chile.
Daniel Verbel-Vergara *Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, 8320000, Santiago, Chile.
Duxan ArancibiaDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, 8320000, Santiago, Chile.
Anna LappalaDepartment of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 6624, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Marcela GonzálezDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, 8320000, Santiago, Chile.
Fabián GuzmánDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, 8320000, Santiago, Chile.
Gianluca MerelloDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, 8320000, Santiago, Chile.
Jeannie T LeeDepartment of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 6624, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. lee@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu.
María Estela AndrésDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, 8320000, Santiago, Chile. mandres@bio.puc.cl.ORCID 0000-0002-2078-2770
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · CLHarvard University · US

Funding

Spreading of Xist RNA and Polycomb complexes along the inactive X-chromosome.R01HD097665 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LEE, JEANNIE T · 2019 to 2023
$3.5M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD097665
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundNuclear processes such as transcription and RNA maturation can be impacted by subnuclear compartmentalization in condensates and nuclear bodies. Here, we characterize the nature of nuclear granules formed by REST corepressor 2 (RCOR2), a nuclear protein essential for pluripotency maintenance and central nervous system development.

resultsUsing biochemical approaches and high-resolution microscopy, we reveal that RCOR2 is localized in nuclear speckles across multiple cell types, including neurons in the brain. RCOR2 forms complexes with nuclear speckle components such as SON, SRSF7, and SRRM2. When cells are exposed to chemical stress, RCOR2 behaves as a core component of the nuclear speckle and is stabilized by RNA. In turn, nuclear speckle morphology appears to depend on RCOR2. Specifically, RCOR2 knockdown results larger nuclear speckles, whereas overexpressing RCOR2 leads to smaller and rounder nuclear speckles.

conclusionOur study suggests that RCOR2 is a regulatory component of the nuclear speckle bodies, setting this co-repressor protein as a factor that controls nuclear speckles behavior.

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Nuclear BodiesNuclear SpecklesCell NucleusCo-Repressor ProteinsHumansNuclear ProteinsRNACo-Repressor ProteinsNuclear ProteinsRcor2 protein, humanRNACoRESTCoREST2Membrane-less organellesNuclear specklesRCOR2SC35SONSRRM2SRSF2SRSF7

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