Cajal Bodies

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Basello D.A., Matera A.G. and Staněk D. (2022). A point mutation in human coilin prevents Cajal body formation.  Journal of Cell Science 135: jcs.259587.  PMC9080554

Walker M.P., Tian L., and Matera A.G. (2009).  Reduced viability, fertility and fecundity in mice lacking the Cajal body marker protein, coilin.  PLoS ONE 4: e6171.  PMC2702818

Liu J.-L., Wu Z., Nizami Z., Deryusheva S., Rajendra T.K., Beumer K.J., Gao H., Matera A.G., Carroll D. and Gall J.G. (2009).  Coilin is essential for Cajal body organization in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology of the Cell 20: 1661-1670.

Dundr M., Ospina J.K., Sung M.-H., John S., Upender M., Ried T., Hager G.L. and Matera A.G. (2007). Actin-dependent intranuclear repositioning of an active gene locus in vivo.  Journal of Cell Biology 179: 1095-1103.

Cioce M., Boulon S., Matera A.G.and Lamond A.I. (2006). UV-induced fragmentation of Cajal bodies.  Journal of Cell Biology  175: 401-413.

Xu H., Pillai R.S., Azzouz T.N., Shpargel K.B., Kambach C., Hebert M.D., Schümperli D. and Matera A.G.(2005). The conserved C-terminal domain of coilin interacts with Sm proteins and snRNPs. Chromosoma 114: 155-166.

Dundr M.*, Hebert M.D., Karpova T.S., Xu H., Stanek D., Shpargel K.B., Meier U.T., Neugebauer K., Matera A.G.* and Misteli T. (2004).  In vivo kinetics of Cajal body components. Journal of Cell Biology 164: 831-842.  (*Corresponding authors)

Shpargel K.B., Ospina J.K., Tucker K.E., Matera A.G.* and Hebert M.D. (2003). Control of Cajal body number is mediated by the coilin C-terminus.  Journal of Cell Science 116: 303-312.

Hebert M.D., Shpargel K.B., Ospina J.K., Tucker K.E. and Matera A.G. (2002).  Coilin methylation regulates nuclear body formation. Developmental Cell  3: 329-337.

Hebert M.D., Szymczyk P.W., Shpargel K.B. and Matera A.G. (2001).  Coilin forms the bridge between Cajal bodies and SMN, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy protein.  Genes & Development 15: 2720-2729.

Frey M.R. and Matera A.G. (2001).  RNA-mediated interaction of Cajal bodies with U2 snRNA genes.  Journal of Cell Biology 154: 499-509.

Tucker K.E., Berciano M.T., Jacobs E.Y., LePage D., Shpargel K.B., Rossire J.J., Chan E.K.L., Lafarga M., Conlon R.A. and Matera A.G.  (2001). Residual Cajal bodies in coilin knockout mice fail to recruit Sm snRNPs and SMN, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy determining gene product.  Journal of Cell Biology 154: 293-307.

Hebert M.D. and Matera A.G. (2000).  Self-association of coilin reveals a common theme in nuclear body localization.  Molecular Biology of the Cell11: 4159-4172.

Liu J-L., Hebert M.D., Ye Y., Templeton D.J., Kung H-J., Matera A.G.  (2000).  Cell cycle-dependent localization of the CDK2-cyclin E complex in Cajal (coiled) bodies.   Journal of Cell Science 113: 1543-1552.

Jacobs E.Y., Frey M.R., Wu W., Ingledue T.C., Gebuhr T.C., Gao L., Marzluff W.F. and Matera A.G.  (1999). Coiled bodies preferentially associate with U4, U11 and U12 small nuclear RNA genes in interphase HeLa cells, but not U6 and U7 genes.  Molecular Biology of the Cell 10: 1653-1663.

Frey M.R., Bailey A.D., Weiner A.M. and Matera A.G. (1999).  Association of snRNA genes with coiled bodies is mediated by nascent snRNA transcripts.  Current Biology 9: 126-135.

Matera A.G. and Frey M.R. (1998).  Coiled bodies and gems: Janus or Gemini?  American Journal of Human Genetics  63: 317-321.

Gao L., Frey M.R. and Matera A.G.  (1997). Human genes encoding U3 snRNA associate with coiled bodies in interphase cells and are clustered on chromosome 17p11.2 in a complex inverted repeat structure.  Nucleic Acids Research 25: 4740-4747.

Frey M.R. and Matera A.G. (1995).  Coiled bodies contain U7 small nuclear RNA and associate with specific DNA sequences in interphase cells.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA  92: 5915-5919.