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Meiotic proteins bqt1 and bqt2 tether telomeres to form the bouquet arrangement of chromosomes.
Cell - 7 Apr 2006
Chikashige Yuji, Tsutsumi Chihiro, Yamane Miho, Okamasa Kasumi, Haraguchi Tokuko, Hiraoka Yasushi
Abstract excerpt
In many organisms, meiotic chromosomes are bundled at their telomeres to form a "bouquet" arrangement. The bouquet formation plays an important role in homologous chromosome pairing and therefore progression of meiosis. As meiotic telomere clustering occurs in response to mating pheromone signaling in fission yeast, we looked for factors essential for bouquet formation among genes induced under mating pheromone...
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