| First Author | Esgleas M | Year | 2020 |
| Journal | EMBO J | Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 16 | Pages | e103373 |
| PubMed ID | 32627867 | Mgi Jnum | J:305846 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:6706115 | Doi | 10.15252/embj.2019103373 |
| Citation | Esgleas M, et al. (2020) Trnp1 organizes diverse nuclear membrane-less compartments in neural stem cells. EMBO J 39(16):e103373 |
| abstractText | TMF1-regulated nuclear protein 1 (Trnp1) has been shown to exert potent roles in neural development affecting neural stem cell self-renewal and brain folding, but its molecular function in the nucleus is still unknown. Here, we show that Trnp1 is a low complexity protein with the capacity to phase separate. Trnp1 interacts with factors located in several nuclear membrane-less organelles, the nucleolus, nuclear speckles, and condensed chromatin. Importantly, Trnp1 co-regulates the architecture and function of these nuclear compartments in vitro and in the developing brain in vivo. Deletion of a highly conserved region in the N-terminal intrinsic disordered region abolishes the capacity of Trnp1 to regulate nucleoli and heterochromatin size, proliferation, and M-phase length; decreases the capacity to phase separate; and abrogates most of Trnp1 protein interactions. Thus, we identified Trnp1 as a novel regulator of several nuclear membrane-less compartments, a function important to maintain cells in a self-renewing proliferative state. |
