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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mer2, Mei4 and Rec114 form a complex required for meiotic double-strand break formation.
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- 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
- Recruitment of Mre11 to recombination sites during meiosis.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Genetic and physical interactions reveal overlapping and distinct contributions to meiotic double-strand break formation inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Biochemical characterization of the meiosis-essential yet evolutionarily divergent topoisomerase VIB-like protein MTOPVIB from Arabidopsis thaliana.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Seeding the meiotic DNA break machinery and initiating recombination on chromosome axes.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Molecular mechanisms and regulation of recombination frequency and distribution in plants.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2024Review
- Meiotic prophase length modulates Tel1-dependent DNA double-strand break interference.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Meiosis in budding yeast.Genetics · 2023Article
- Evolutionary conservation of the structure and function of meiotic Rec114-Mei4 and Mer2 complexes.Genes & development · 2023Article
- Structure and DNA-bridging activity of the essential Rec114-Mei4 trimer interface.Genes & development · 2023Article
- Chromosome-dependent aneuploid formation in Spo11-less meiosis.Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms · 2023Article
- Structure and DNA bridging activity of the essential Rec114â€"Mei4 trimer interface.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Regulation Mechanisms of Meiotic Recombination Revealed from the Analysis of a Fission Yeast Recombination HotspotBiomolecules · 2022Review
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- Novel mechanistic insights into the role of Mer2 as the keystone of meiotic DNA break formation.eLife · 2021Article
- Conservation and divergence of meiotic DNA double strand break forming mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana.Nucleic acids research · 2021Article
- ESA1 regulates meiotic chromosome axis and crossover frequency via acetylating histone H4.Nucleic acids research · 2021Article
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Abstract
In budding yeast, at least 10 proteins are required for formation of the double-strand breaks (DSBs) that initiate meiotic recombination. Spo11 is the enzyme responsible for cleaving DNA and is found in a complex that also contains Ski8, Rec102, and Rec104. The Mre11/Rad50/Xrs2 complex is required for both DSB formation and DSB processing. In this article we investigate the functions of the remaining three proteins--Mer2, Mei4, and Rec114--with particular emphasis on Mer2. The Mer2 protein is present in vegetative cells, but it increases in abundance and becomes phosphorylated specifically during meiotic prophase. Mer2 localizes to distinct foci on meiotic chromosomes, with foci maximally abundant prior to the formation of synaptonemal complex. If DSB formation is blocked (e.g., by a spo11 mutation), dephosphorylation of Mer2 and its dissociation from chromosomes are delayed. We have also found that the Mei4 and Rec114 proteins localize to foci on chromosomes and these foci partially colocalize with each other and with Mer2. Furthermore, the three proteins co-immunoprecipitate. Mer2 does not show significant colocalization with Mre11 or Rec102 and Mer2 does not co-immunoprecipitate with Rec102. We propose that Mer2, Mei4, and Rec114 form a distinct complex required for DSB formation.
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