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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 107, Issue 6 1457-1468, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists
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F Puvion-Dutilleul, JP Bachellerie, N Visa and E Puvion
Laboratoire de Biologie et Ultrastructure du Noyau de l'UPR 272 CNRS, Villejuir, France.
We have studied in HeLa cells at the electron microscope level the response to adenovirus infection of the RNA processing machinery. Components of the spliceosomes were localized by in situ hybridization with biotinylated U1 and U2 DNA probes and by immunolabeling with Y12 anti-Sm monoclonal antibody, whereas poly(A)+ RNAs were localized by specific binding of biotinylated poly(dT) probe. At early stages of nuclear transformation, the distribution of small nuclear RNPs was similar to that previously described in non-infected nuclei (Visa, N., Puvion-Dutilleul, F., Bachellerie, J.P. and Puvion, E., Eur. J. Cell Biol. 60, 308-321, 1993; Visa, N., Puvion-Dutilleul, F., Harper, F., Bachellerie, J. P. and Puvion, E., Exp. Cell Res. 208, 19-34, 1993). As the infection progresses, the large virus-induced inclusion body consists of a central storage site of functionally inactive viral genomes surrounded by a peripheral shell formed by clusters of interchromatin granules, compact rings and a fibrillogranular network in which are embedded the viral single-stranded DNA accumulation sites. Spliceosome components and poly(A)+ RNAs were then exclusively detected over the clusters of interchromatin granules and the fibrillogranular network whereas the viral single-stranded DNA accumulation sites and compact rings remained unlabeled, thus appearing to not be directly involved in splicing. Our data, therefore, suggest that the fibrillogranular network, in addition to being the site of viral transcription, is also a major site of viral RNA splicing. Like the clusters of interchromatin granules, which had been already involved in spliceosome assembly, they could also have a role in the sorting of viral spliced polyadenylated mRNAs before export to the cytoplasm. The compact rings, which contain non-polyadenylated viral RNA, might accumulate the non-used portions of the viral transcripts resulting from differential poly(A)+ site selection.
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