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Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2000, p. 2650-2659, Vol. 20, No. 8
ICMB, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
EH9 3JR, Scotland
Received 9 September 1999/Returned for modification 25 October
1999/Accepted 10 January 2000
Two core small nucleolar RNP (snoRNP) proteins, Nop1p (fibrillarin
in vertebrates) and Nop58p (also known as Nop5p) have previously been
reported to be specifically associated with the box C+D class of small
nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs). Here we report that Nop56p, a protein related
in sequence to Nop58p, is a bona fide box C+D snoRNP component; all
tested box C+D snoRNAs were coprecipitated with protein A-tagged
Nop56p. Analysis of in vivo snoRNP assembly indicated that Nop56p was
stably associated with the snoRNAs only in the presence of Nop1p. In
contrast, Nop58p and Nop1p associate independently with the snoRNAs.
Genetic depletion of Nop56p resulted in inhibition of early pre-rRNA
processing events at sites A0, A1, and
A2 and mild depletion of 18S rRNA. However, Nop56p
depletion did not lead to codepletion of the box C+D snoRNAs. This is
in contrast to Nop58p, which was required for the accumulation of all
tested box C+D snoRNAs. Unexpectedly, we found that Nop1p was
specifically required for the synthesis and accumulation of box C+D
snoRNAs processed from pre-mRNA introns and polycistronic transcripts.
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Synthesis and Assembly of the Box C+D Small
Nucleolar RNPs
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