RRC ID 50365
著者 Medhi D, Goldman AS, Lichten M.
タイトル Local chromosome context is a major determinant of crossover pathway biochemistry during budding yeast meiosis.
ジャーナル Elife
Abstract The budding yeast genome contains regions where meiotic recombination initiates more frequently than in others. This pattern parallels enrichment for the meiotic chromosome axis proteins Hop1 and Red1. These proteins are important for Spo11-catalyzed double strand break formation; their contribution to crossover recombination remains undefined. Using the sequence-specific VMA1-derived endonuclease (VDE) to initiate recombination in meiosis, we show that chromosome structure influences the choice of proteins that resolve recombination intermediates to form crossovers. At a Hop1-enriched locus, most VDE-initiated crossovers, like most Spo11-initiated crossovers, required the meiosis-specific MutLγ resolvase. In contrast, at a locus with lower Hop1 occupancy, most VDE-initiated crossovers were MutLγ-independent. In pch2 mutants, the two loci displayed similar Hop1 occupancy levels, and VDE-induced crossovers were similarly MutLγ-dependent. We suggest that meiotic and mitotic recombination pathways coexist within meiotic cells, and that features of meiotic chromosome structure determine whether one or the other predominates in different regions.
巻・号 5
公開日 2016-11-18
DOI 10.7554/eLife.19669
PII e19669
PMID 27855779
PMC PMC5222560
MeSH Chromosomes, Fungal / genetics Chromosomes, Fungal / metabolism* Crossing Over, Genetic* Meiosis* Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / metabolism Saccharomycetales / physiology*
IF 7.08
引用数 12
リソース情報
酵母 plasmids yeast strains