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PLOS GENETICS
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000393
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- Medical Research Council
- CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche scientifique)
- ARC (Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer) [3939]
- ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) [ANR-06-BLAN-0160-01]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Medical Research Council [MC_U127584481] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U127584481] Funding Source: UKRI
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-06-BLAN-0160] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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In mammals, the synaptonemal complex is a structure required to complete crossover recombination. Although suggested by cytological work, in vivo links between the structural proteins of the synaptonemal complex and the proteins of the recombination process have not previously been made. The central element of the synaptonemal complex is traversed by DNA at sites of recombination and presents a logical place to look for interactions between these components. There are four known central element proteins, three of which have previously been mutated. Here, we complete the set by creating a null mutation in the Syce1 gene in mouse. The resulting disruption of synapsis in these animals has allowed us to demonstrate a biochemical interaction between the structural protein SYCE2 and the repair protein RAD51. In normal meiosis, this interaction may be responsible for promoting homologous synapsis from sites of recombination.
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