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A conserved filamentous assembly underlies the structure of the meiotic chromosome axis.
eLife - 18 Jan 2019
West Alan Mv, Rosenberg Scott C, Ur Sarah N, Lehmer Madison K, Ye Qiaozhen, Hagemann Götz, Caballero Iracema, Usón Isabel, MacQueen Amy J, Herzog Franz, Corbett Kevin D
Abstract excerpt
The meiotic chromosome axis plays key roles in meiotic chromosome organization and recombination, yet the underlying protein components of this structure are highly diverged. Here, we show that 'axis core proteins' from budding yeast (Red1), mammals (SYCP2/SYCP3), and plants (ASY3/ASY4) are evolutionarily related and play equivalent roles in chromosome axis assembly. We first identify 'closure motifs' in each...
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