Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Cajal bodies are linked to genome conformation

  • Qiuyan Wang,
  • Iain A. Sawyer,
  • Myong-Hee Sung,
  • David Sturgill,
  • Sergey P. Shevtsov,
  • Gianluca Pegoraro,
  • Ofir Hakim,
  • Songjoon Baek,
  • Gordon L. Hager,
  • Miroslav Dundr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10966
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Nuclear bodies can nucleate at sites of active transcription and are beneficial for efficient gene expression. Here, the authors show that Cajal bodies, a prominent type of nuclear body, contribute to genome organization with global effects on gene expression and RNA splicing fidelity.