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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1999//715 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 147, Number 4, , 1999 715-728

The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Disease Gene Product, Smn

Teresa Carvalho^a, Fátima Almeida^a, Alexandre Calapez^a, Miguel Lafarga^b, Maria T. Berciano^b, and Maria Carmo-Fonseca^a

^a Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, 1649-028 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
^b Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cantabria, 39011 Santander, Spain
Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa Codex, Portugal.+351 1 7951780+351 1 7934340

hcarmo{at}correio.fm.ul.pt

The spliceosomal snRNAs U1, U2, U4, and U5 are synthesized in the nucleus, exported to the cytoplasm to assemble with Sm proteins, and reimported to the nucleus as ribonucleoprotein particles. Recently, two novel proteins involved in biogenesis of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) were identified, the Spinal muscular atrophy disease gene product (SMN) and its associated protein SIP1. It was previously reported that in HeLa cells, SMN and SIP1 form discrete foci located next to Cajal (coiled) bodies, the so-called "gemini of coiled bodies" or "gems." An intriguing feature of gems is that they do not appear to contain snRNPs. Here we show that gems are present in a variable but small proportion of rapidly proliferating cells in culture. In the vast majority of cultured cells and in all primary neurons analyzed, SMN and SIP1 colocalize precisely with snRNPs in the Cajal body. The presence of SMN and SIP1 in Cajal bodies is confirmed by immunoelectron microscopy and by microinjection of antibodies that interfere with the integrity of the structure. The association of SMN with snRNPs and coilin persists during cell division, but at the end of mitosis there is a lag period between assembly of new Cajal bodies in the nucleus and detection of SMN in these structures, suggesting that SMN is targeted to preformed Cajal bodies. Finally, treatment of cells with leptomycin B (a drug that blocks export of U snRNAs to the cytoplasm and consequently import of new snRNPs into the nucleus) is shown to deplete snRNPs (but not SMN or SIP1) from the Cajal body. This suggests that snRNPs flow through the Cajal body during their biogenesis pathway.

Key Words: Cajal (coiled) body • leptomycin B • nucleocytoplasmic transport • SMN protein • spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoproteins

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