ArticleThe Plant cell2013
Centromere pairing in early meiotic prophase requires active centromeres and precedes installation of the synaptonemal complex in maize.
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- Centromere evolution in annual and perennial soybeans and its implication for hybridization in cultivated species.Genome biology · 2026Article
- Heterochromatin in plant meiosis.Nucleus (Austin, Tex.) · 2024Review
- Three near-complete genome assemblies reveal substantial centromere dynamics from diploid to tetraploid in Brachypodium genus.Genome biology · 2024Article
- Centromeres: From chromosome biology to biotechnology applications and synthetic genomes in plants.Plant biotechnology journal · 2022Review
- Rewiring Meiosis for Crop Improvement.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Spatial constraints on chromosomes are instrumental to meiotic pairing.Journal of cell science · 2020Article
- Chromosome-nuclear envelope tethering - a process that orchestrates homologue pairing during plant meiosis?Journal of cell science · 2020Review
- The Cohesin Complex Subunit ZmSMC3 Participates in Meiotic Centromere Pairing in Maize.The Plant cell · 2020Article
- Back-spliced RNA from retrotransposon binds to centromere and regulates centromeric chromatin loops in maize.PLoS biology · 2020Article
- Centromere Satellite Repeats Have Undergone Rapid Changes in Polyploid Wheat Subgenomes.The Plant cell · 2019Article
- Segmental Duplication of Chromosome 11 and its Implications for Cell Division and Genome-wide Expression in Rice.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Meiotic Centromere Coupling and Pairing Function by Two Separate Mechanisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Genetics · 2017Article
- Centromere pairing--tethering partner chromosomes in meiosis I.The FEBS journal · 2015Review
- Recombination, Pairing, and Synapsis of Homologs during Meiosis.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2015Review
- Cytomixis doesn't induce obvious changes in chromatin modifications and programmed cell death in tobacco male meiocytes.Frontiers in plant science · 2015Article
- Dynamic epigenetic states of maize centromeres.Frontiers in plant science · 2015Review
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- The subtelomeric region is important for chromosome recognition and pairing during meiosis.Scientific reports · 2014Article
- The synaptonemal complex protein ZYP1 is required for imposition of meiotic crossovers in barley.The Plant cell · 2014Article
- The Chromosomal Courtship Dance-homolog pairing in early meiosis.Current opinion in cell biology · 2014Review
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Abstract
Pairing of homologous chromosomes in meiosis is critical for their segregation to daughter cells. In most eukaryotes, clustering of telomeres precedes and facilitates chromosome pairing. In several species, centromeres also form pairwise associations, known as coupling, before the onset of pairing. We found that, in maize (Zea mays), centromere association begins at the leptotene stage and occurs earlier than the formation of the telomere bouquet. We established that centromere pairing requires centromere activity and the sole presence of centromeric repeats is not sufficient for pairing. In several species, homologs of the ZIP1 protein, which forms the central element of the synaptonemal complex in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), play essential roles in centromere coupling. However, we found that the maize ZIP1 homolog ZYP1 installs in the centromeric regions of chromosomes after centromeres form associations. Instead, we found that maize structural maintenance of chromosomes6 homolog forms a central element of the synaptonemal complex, which is required for centromere associations. These data shed light on the poorly understood mechanism of centromere interactions and suggest that this mechanism may vary somewhat in different species.
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