Category:Cajal Body
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| Name: | Cajal Body |
| Definition: | [[Definition::A class of nuclear body, first seen after silver staining by Cajal in 1903, enriched in small nuclear ribonucleoproteins, and certain general RNA polymerase II transcription factors; ultrastructurally, they appear as a tangle of coiled, electron-dense threads roughly 0.5 micrometers in diameter; involved in aspects of snRNP biogenesis; the protein coilin serves as a marker for Cajal bodies. Some argue that Cajal bodies are the sites for preassembly of transcriptosomes, unitary particles involved in transcription and processing of RNA. [source: PMID:10944589, PMID:11031238, PMID:7559785, http://genetics.cwru.edu/matera3.html] (from Gene Ontology)]] |
| Synonym(s): | Coiled Body |
| Id: | nlx_subcell_090901 |
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