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ReviewRNA biology2025

Nucleolar ribosomal RNA synthesis continues in differentiating lens fiber cells until abrupt nuclear degradation required for ocular lens transparency.

Danielle Rayêe, U Thomas Meier, Carolina Eliscovich, Aleš Cvekl

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Review in RNA biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Danielle RayêeDepartments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8014-9854
U Thomas MeierDepartment of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6677-2677
Carolina EliscovichDepartments of Medicine (Hepatology) and Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7653-5536
Aleš CveklDepartments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3957-789X

Funding

WORD PROCESSORP30CA013330 · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · 1985 to 2025
$27.5M
Transcriptional control of the Alpha A-crystallin locusR01EY014237 · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · 2003 to 2005
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA013330NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014237NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL173197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular differentiation requires highly coordinated action of all three transcriptional systems to produce rRNAs, mRNAs and various 'short' and 'long' non-coding RNAs by RNA Polymerase I, II and III systems, respectively. RNA Polymerase I catalyzes transcription of about 400 copies of mammalian rDNA genes, generating 18S, 5.8S and 28S rRNA molecules. Lens fiber cell differentiation is a unique process to study transcriptional mechanisms of individual crystallin genes as their very high transcriptional outputs are directly comparable only to globin genes in erythrocytes. Importantly, both terminally differentiated lens fiber cells and mammalian erythrocytes degrade their nuclei through different mechanisms. In lens, the generation of the organelle-free zone (OFZ) includes the degradation of mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus and nuclei. Here, using RNA fluorescence

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Cell DifferentiationCell NucleolusCell NucleusLens, CrystallineRNA, RibosomalAnimalsIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceMiceTranscription, GeneticRNA, RibosomalLensnucleolinucleusorganelle-free zoneRNA polymerase IrRNA transcription

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PMID40126102
PMCPMC11959900

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