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ReviewFrontiers in neuroanatomy2025

Cajal's organization of neuronal nucleus revisited.

Miguel Lafarga, María T Berciano, J Oriol Narcís, Fernando C Baltanás, Olga Tapia

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Miguel LafargaDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
María T Berciano"Centro de Investigación en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas" (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain.
J Oriol NarcísNash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
Fernando C BaltanásDepartment of Medical Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), "Virgen del Rocío" University Hospital, CSIC, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
Olga TapiaDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Technologies (ITB), University of La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 1906, Cajal was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering studies on the structure and organization of nerve centers. Notably, in 1910, Cajal published a seminal work in which he described the essential components of the neuronal nucleus, primarily using his reduced silver nitrate procedure. Using modern microscopy techniques, we have identified the current equivalents of the structures originally described by Cajal. These include the "fibrillar center-dense fibrillar component units" of the nucleolus, "nuclear speckles," "transcription factories," and "the Cajal body." Importantly, these structures represent key nuclear compartments involved in the transcription of rDNA and protein-coding genes, pre-rRNA and pre-mRNA processing and spatial genome organization. Most of the nuclear components described by Cajal are now recognized as dynamic "nuclear condensates" assembled through liquid-liquid phase separation mechanisms that depend on various categories of RNA and RNA-binding proteins.

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Cajal and neuronal nucleusCajal bodynuclear condensatesnuclear specklesnucleolusnucleoskeletontranscription factories

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