ArticleThe Journal of cell biology2006
Mouse SYCP2 is required for synaptonemal complex assembly and chromosomal synapsis during male meiosis.
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- A systematic review of the validated monogenic causes of human male infertility: 2020 update and a discussion of emerging gene-disease relationships.Human reproduction update · 2021Pooled it
- Controlling Meiotic Double-Strand Break Formation in Mice: A Web of Multivalent Protein-Protein Interactions.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026Review
- SYCP2 recruits HORMAD2 to chromosome axes for unsynapsed chromatin silencing and synapsis surveillance in meiosis.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The synaptonemal complex: structure, function, and clinical implications†.Biology of reproduction · 2026Article
- Transcription factor NFYA directs male meiotic entry by regulating accessible chromatin at meiotic promoters in mice.The EMBO journal · 2026Article
- Orchestrating homolog segregation in meiosis I: molecular logic and regulatory networks with emphasis on male metaphase I.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Review
- The intricate dance of RNA-binding proteins: unveiling the mechanisms behind male infertility.Human reproduction update · 2026Review
- Chromosome Architecture Defined by the Meiosis-Specific Cohesin in Mammalian Germ Cells.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Genetic and epigenetic insights into non-obstructive azoospermia: mechanisms, biomarkers, and clinical perspectives.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2025Review
- Stage-dependent dual mechanisms of MORC2 in retrotransposon silencing and sex chromosome inactivation in germ cells.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Distinct cellular and reproductive consequences of meiotic chromosome synapsis defects in syce2 and sycp1 mutant zebrafish.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- ABL1-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of SYCP2 contributes to transcription-coupled homologous recombination and platinum resistance in ovarian cancer.NAR cancer · 2025Article
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- Topographic Axes of Wiring Space Converge to Genetic Topography in Shaping the Human Cortical Layout.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- BMP and STRA8 act collaboratively to ensure correct mitotic-to-meiotic transition in the fetal mouse ovary.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Insights from the single-cell level: lineage trajectory and somatic-germline interactions during spermatogenesis in dwarf surfclam Mulinia lateralis.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- A novel loss-of-functionFrontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- Defects in meiosis I contribute to the genesis of androgenetic hydatidiform moles.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024Article
- The Germline-Restricted Chromosome of Male Zebra Finches in Meiotic Prophase I: A Proteinaceous Scaffold and Chromatin Modifications.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- The Abl1 tyrosine kinase is a key player in doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy and its p53/p73 cell death mediated signaling differs in atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
During meiosis, the arrangement of homologous chromosomes is tightly regulated by the synaptonemal complex (SC). Each SC consists of two axial/lateral elements (AEs/LEs), and numerous transverse filaments. SC protein 2 (SYCP2) and SYCP3 are integral components of AEs/LEs in mammals. We find that SYCP2 forms heterodimers with SYCP3 both in vitro and in vivo. An evolutionarily conserved coiled coil domain in SYCP2 is required for binding to SYCP3. We generated a mutant Sycp2 allele in mice that lacks the coiled coil domain. The fertility of homozygous Sycp2 mutant mice is sexually dimorphic; males are sterile because of a block in meiosis, whereas females are subfertile with sharply reduced litter size. Sycp2 mutant spermatocytes exhibit failure in the formation of AEs and chromosomal synapsis. Strikingly, the mutant SYCP2 protein localizes to axial chromosomal cores in both spermatocytes and fetal oocytes, but SYCP3 does not, demonstrating that SYCP2 is a primary determinant of AEs/LEs and, thus, is required for the incorporation of SYCP3 into SCs.
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