ArticleNucleic acids research2021
The synaptonemal complex central region modulates crossover pathways and feedback control of meiotic double-strand break formation.
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- Synaptonemal complex SUMOylation is maintained by Nup60-dependent docking of Ulp1 at the nuclear periphery.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Prophase roles of replication protein A in crossover formation and meiotic progression.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Structure and function of the synaptonemal complex.The Journal of cell biology · 2026Review
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- BAF-1-VRK-1 mediated release of meiotic chromosomes from the nuclear periphery is important for genome integrity.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Crossover designation recruits condensin to reorganize the meiotic chromosome axis.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Crossover designation recruits condensin to reorganize the meiotic chromosome axis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Recombination-coupled DNA synthesis facilitates post-invasion steps in meiotic crossover and noncrossover formations.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- The synaptonemal complex central element SCEP3 interlinks synapsis initiation and crossover formation in Arabidopsis thaliana.Nature plants · 2025Article
- Maximizing meiotic crossover rates reveals the map of Crossover Potential.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Sae2 controls Mre11 endo- and exonuclease activities by different mechanisms.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Replication protein-A, RPA, plays a pivotal role in the maintenance of recombination checkpoint in yeast meiosis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- RPA interacts with Rad52 to promote meiotic crossover and noncrossover recombination.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- A Method for Physical Analysis of Recombination Intermediates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2023Article
- Meiosis in budding yeast.Genetics · 2023Article
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- Recruitment of Polo-like kinase couples synapsis to meiotic progression via inactivation of CHK-2.eLife · 2023Article
- The Msh5 complex shows homeostatic localization in response to DNA double-strand breaks in yeast meiosis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Rad51-mediated interhomolog recombination during budding yeast meiosis is promoted by the meiotic recombination checkpoint and the conserved Pif1 helicase.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
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Abstract
The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a proteinaceous structure that mediates homolog engagement and genetic recombination during meiosis. In budding yeast, Zip-Mer-Msh (ZMM) proteins promote crossover (CO) formation and initiate SC formation. During SC elongation, the SUMOylated SC component Ecm11 and the Ecm11-interacting protein Gmc2 facilitate the polymerization of Zip1, an SC central region component. Through physical recombination, cytological, and genetic analyses, we found that ecm11 and gmc2 mutants exhibit chromosome-specific defects in meiotic recombination. CO frequencies on a short chromosome (chromosome III) were reduced, whereas CO and non-crossover frequencies on a long chromosome (chromosome VII) were elevated. Further, in ecm11 and gmc2 mutants, more double-strand breaks (DSBs) were formed on a long chromosome during late prophase I, implying that the Ecm11-Gmc2 (EG) complex is involved in the homeostatic regulation of DSB formation. The EG complex may participate in joint molecule (JM) processing and/or double-Holliday junction resolution for ZMM-dependent CO-designated recombination. Absence of the EG complex ameliorated the JM-processing defect in zmm mutants, suggesting a role for the EG complex in suppressing ZMM-independent recombination. Our results suggest that the SC central region functions as a compartment for sequestering recombination-associated proteins to regulate meiosis specificity during recombination.
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