Fig. 2. NUCL-1 localizes to germ cell nucleoli and displays precise sub-nucleolar compartmentalization.
a Split-GFP strategy for K07H8.10 (NUCL-1) visualization in the germline. b NUCL-1 localizes to nucleoli in the adult germline. c Confocal-DIC imaging reveals that NUCL-1 localizes exclusively to the nucleolus in oocytes and pachytene germ cells. Pink arrows indicate nucleolar vacuoles. d NUCL-1 displays precise sub-nucleolar organization within oocytes (1 nucleolus shown) and pachytene germ cells (5 nucleoli shown). e NUCL-1 and FIB-1 occupy distinct spaces in pachytene germ cell nucleoli. f GARR-1::sGFP11 in pachytene germ cell nucleoli. g GARR-1 and FIB-1 occupy the same sub-nucleolar compartment in pachytene germ cells. h LPD-6::sGFP11 in pachytene germ cells. i A human nucleolus is organized into 3 phase-separated layers and ribosome biogenesis occurs in a step-by-step manner from the inside-out. j Yeast nucleoli are organized into 2 phase-separated compartments. k C. elegans nucleoli contain 2 phase-separated compartments, with NUCL-1 and LPD-6 in the GC and FIB-1 and GARR-1 in the FC. (FC fibrillar center, DFC dense fibrillar component, GC granular component, RNA Pol1 RNA polymerase 1).
