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ArticleBiology open2016

Early development of Drosophila embryos requires Smc5/6 function during oogenesis.

Martin Tran, Vasilios Tsarouhas, Andreas Kegel

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Article in Biology open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Martin TranDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm S-17177, Sweden.
Vasilios TsarouhasDepartment of Molecular Bioscience, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-10691, Sweden.
Andreas KegelDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm S-17177, Sweden andreas.kegel@ki.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3885-0946
Karolinska Institutet · SEStockholm University · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations in structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) proteins are frequently associated with chromosomal abnormalities commonly observed in developmental disorders. However, the role of Smc proteins in development still remains elusive. To investigate Smc5/6 function during early embryogenesis we examined smc5 and smc6 mutants of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster using a combination of reverse genetics and microscopy approaches. Smc5/6 exhibited a maternally contributed function in maintaining chromosome stability during early embryo development, which manifested as female subfertility in its absence. Loss of Smc5/6 caused an arrest and a considerable delay in embryo development accompanied by fragmented nuclei and increased anaphase-bridge formation, respectively. Surprisingly, early embryonic arrest was attributable to the absence of Smc5/6 during oogenesis, which resulted in insufficient repair of pre-meiotic and meiotic DNA double-strand breaks. Thus, our findings contribute to the understanding of Smc proteins in higher eukaryotic development by highlighting a maternal function in chromosome maintenance and a link between oogenesis and early embryogenesis.

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Anaphase bridgesChromosomesDNA DSBsKaryosomePachytene arrestSmc proteins

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PMID27288507
PMCPMC4958276
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