Article
Mus81 nuclease and Sgs1 helicase are essential for meiotic recombination in a protist lacking a synaptonemal complex.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Nov 2013
Lukaszewicz Agnieszka, Howard-Till Rachel A, Loidl Josef
Abstract excerpt
Mus81 resolvase and Sgs1 helicase have well-established roles in mitotic DNA repair. Moreover, Mus81 is part of a minor crossover (CO) pathway in the meiosis of budding yeast, plants and vertebrates. The major pathway depends on meiosis-specific synaptonemal complex (SC) formation, ZMM proteins and the MutLγ complex for CO-directed resolution of joint molecule (JM)-recombination intermediates. Sgs1 has also been...
Topics
- Cell Nucleus
- Chromatids
- Chromosome Segregation
- DNA
- DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded
- Endodeoxyribonucleases
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Meiosis
- Mutation
- RNA Interference
- RecQ Helicases
