Meiotic chromosome dynamics dependent upon the rec8+, rec10+ and rec11+ genes of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-68

  Krawchuk, Michelle D ^a   DeVeaux, Linda C ^b,c   Wahls, Wayne P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SISTER CHROMATID; TELOMERE;

ANEUPLOIDY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0032864279     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. BÄHLER, J., T. WYLER, J. LOIDL and J. KOHLI, 1993 Unusual nuclear structures in meiotic prophase of fission yeast: a cytological analysis. J. Cell Biol. 121: 241-256.
2. BIRKENBIHL, R. P., and S. SUBRAMANI, 1992 Cloning and characterization of rad21 an essential gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe involved in DNA double-strand-break repair. Nucleic Acids Res. 20: 6605-6611.
3. BIRKENBIHL, R. P., and S. SUBRAMANI, 1995 The rad21 gene product of Schizosaccharomyces pombe is a nuclear, cell cycle-regulated phosphoprotein. J. Biol. Chem. 270: 7703-7711.
4. CHIKASHIGE, Y., D. Q. DING, H. FUNABIKI, T. HARAGUCHI, S. MASHIKO et al., 1994 Telomere-led premeiotic chromosome movement in fission yeast. Science 264: 270-273.
5. CHIKASHIGE, Y., D. Q. DING, Y. IMAI, M. YAMAMOTO, T. HARAGUCHI et al., 1997 Meiotic nuclear reorganization: switching the position of centromeres and telomeres in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. EMBO J. 16: 193-202.
6. CLAYBERG, C., 1959 Cytogenetic studies of precocious meiotic centromere division in Lycopersicon esculentum. Genetics 44: 1335-1346.
7. COOPER, J. P., Y. WATANABE and P. NURSE, 1998 Fission yeast Taz1 protein is required for meiotic telomere clustering and recombination. Nature 392: 828-831.
8. DARLINGTON, C. D., 1932 Recent Advances in Cytology. Churchill, London.
9. DAVIS, B., 1971 Genetic analysis of a meiotic mutant resulting in precocious sister-centromere separation in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol. Gen. Genet. 113: 251-271.
10. DE LANGE, T., 1998 Ending up with the right partner. Nature 392: 753-754.
11. DEVEAUX, L. C., and G. R. SMITH, 1994 Region-specific activators of meiotic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genes Dev. 8: 203-210.
12. DEVEAUX, L. C., N. A. HOAGLAND and G. R. SMITH, 1992 Seventeen complementation groups of mutations decreasing meiotic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 130: 251-262.
13. FISHER, J. M., J. F. HARVEY, N. E. MORTON and P. A. JACOBS, 1995 Trisomy 18: studies of the parent and cell division of origin and the effect of aberrant recombination on nondisjunction. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 56: 669-675.
14. GETHMANN, R. C., 1984 The genetic analysis of a chromosome-specific meiotic mutant that permits a premature separation of sister chromatids in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 107: 65-77.
15. GUACCI, V., D. KOSHLAND and A. STRUNNIKOV, 1997 A direct link between sister chromatid cohesion and chromosome condensation revealed through the analysis of MCD1 in S. cerevisiae. Cell 91: 47-57.
16. GUTZ, H., H. HESLOT, U. LEUPOLD and N. LOPRIENO, 1974 Schizosaccharomyces pombe, pp. 395-446 in Handbook of Genetics, edited by R. C. KING, Plenum Press, New York.
17. HASSOLD, T., M. MERRILL, K. ADKINS, S. FREEMAN and S. SHERMAN, 1995 Recombination and maternal age-dependent nondisjunction: molecular studies of trisomy 16. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 57: 867-874.
18. + gene, is essential for chromosome segregation. Mol. Gen. Genet. 257: 149-156.
19. HIRATA, A., and C. SHIMODA, 1992 Electron microscopic examination of sporulation-deficient mutants of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Arch. Microbiol. 158: 249-255.
20. HIRATA, A., and C. SHIMODA, 1994 Structural modification of spindle pole bodies during meiosis II is essential for normal formation of ascospores in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: ultrastructural analysis of spo mutants. Yeast 10: 173-183.
21. KERREBROCK, A. W., W. Y. MIYAZAKI, D. BIRNBY and T. L. ORR-WEAVER, 1992 The Drosophila mei-S332 gene promotes sister-chromatid cohesion in meiosis following kinetochore differentiation. Genetics 130: 827-841.
22. KERREBROCK, A. W., D. P. MOORE, J. S. WU and T. L. ORR-WEAVER, 1995 Mei-S332, a Drosophila protein required for sister-chromatid cohesion, can localize to meiotic centromere regions. Cell 83: 247-256.
23. KOEHLER, K. E., C. L. BOULTON, H. E. COLLINS, R. L. FRENCH, K. C. HERMAN et al., 1996a Spontaneous X chromosome MI and MII nondisjunction events in Drosophila melanogaster oocytes have different recombinational histories. Nat. Genet. 14: 406-413.
24. KOEHLER, K. E., R. S. HAWLEY, S. SHERMAN and T. HASSOLD, 1996b Recombination and nondisjunction in humans and flies. Hum. Mol. Genet. 5: 1495-1504.
25. KOHLI, J., 1994 Meiosis. Telomeres lead chromosome movement. Curr. Biol. 4: 724-727.
26. KOHLI, J., and J. BAHLER, 1994 Homologous recombination in fission yeast: absence of crossover interference and synaptonemal complex. Experientia 50: 295-306.
27. KOHLI, J., H. HOTTINGER, P. MUNZ, A. STRAUSS and P. THURIAUX, 1977 Genetic mapping in Schizosaccharomyces pombe by mitotic and meiotic analysis and induced haploidization. Genetics 87: 471-489.
28. KON, N., M. D. KRAWCHUK, B. G. WARREN, G. R. SMITH and W. P. WAHLS, 1997 Transcription factor Mts1/Mts2 (Atfl/Pcrl, Gad7/Pcr1) activates the M26 meiotic recombination hotspot in S. pombe. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 13765-13770.
29. KRAWCHUK, M. D., and W. P. WAHLS, 1999 Centromere mapping functions for aneuploid meiotic products: analysis of rec8, rec10, and rec11 mutants of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 153: 49-55.
30. LAMB, N., S. B. FREEMAN, A. SAVAGE-AUSTIN, D. PETTAY, L. TAFT et al., 1996 Susceptible chiasmate configurations of chromosome 21 predispose to non-disjunction in both maternal meiosis I and meiosis II. Nat. Genet. 14: 400-405.
31. LI, Y. F., M. NUMATA, W. P. WAHLS and G. R. SMITH, 1997 Region-specific meiotic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: the rec11 gene. Mol. Microbiol. 23: 869-878.
32. LIN, Y., and G. R. SMITH, 1995 Molecular cloning of the meiosis-induced rec10 gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Curr. Genet. 27: 440-446.
33. LIN, Y., K. L. LARSON, R. DORER and G. R. SMITH, 1992 Meiotically induced rec7 and rer8 genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 132: 75-85.
34. MACDONALD, M., T. HASSOLD, J. HARVEY, L. H. WANG, N. E. MORTON et al., 1994 The origin of 47,XXY and 47,XXX aneuploidy: heterogeneous mechanisms and role of aberrant recombination. Hum. Mol. Genet. 3: 1365-1371.
35. MAGUIRE, M. P., 1974 The need for a chiasma binder. J. Theor. Biol. 48: 485-487.
36. MCKAY, M. J., C. TROELSTRA, P. VAN DER SPEK, R. KANAAR, B. SMIT et al., 1996 Sequence conservation of the rad21 Schizosaccharomyces pombe DNA double-strand break repair gene in human and mouse. Genomics 36: 305-315.
37. MICHAELIS, C., R. CIOSK and K. NASMYTH, 1997 Cohesins: chromosomal proteins that prevent premature separation of sister chro matids. Cell 91: 35-45.
38. MOENS, P. B., 1994 Molecular perspectives of chromosome pairing at meiosis. Bioessays 16: 101-106.
39. MOLNAR, M., J. BAHLER, M. SIPICZKI and J. KOHLI, 1995 The rec8 gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe is involved in linear element formation, chromosome pairing and sister-chromatid cohesion during meiosis. Genetics 141: 61-73.
40. MOORE, D. P., and T. L. ORR-WEAVER, 1998 Chromosome segregation during meiosis: building an unambivalent bivalent. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 37: 263-299.
41. MOORE, D. P., W. Y. MIYAZAKI, J. E. TOMKIEL and T. L. ORR-WEAVER, 1994 Double or nothing: a Drosophila mutation affecting meiotic chromosome segregation in both females and males. Genetics 136: 953-964.
42. MOORE, D. P., A. W. PAGE, T. T. TANG, A. W. KERREBROCK and T. L. ORR-WEAVER, 1998 The cohesion protein MEI-S332 localizes to condensed meiotic and mitotic centromeres until sister chromatids separate. J. Cell Biol. 140: 1003-1012.
43. MUNZ, P., 1994 An analysis of interference in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 137: 701-707.
44. NIMMO, E. R., A. L. PIDOUS, P. E. PERRY and R. C. ALLSHIRE, 1998 Detective meiosis in telomere-silencing mutants of Schizosacharomyces pombe. Nature 392: 825-828.
45. NIWA, O., and M. YANAGIDA, 1985 Triploid meiosis and aneuoploidy in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: an unstable aneuploid disomic for chromosome III. Curr. Genet. 9: 463-470.
46. PARISI, S., M. J. MCKAY, M. MOLNAR, M. A. THOMPSON, P. J. VAN DER SPEK et al., 1999 Rec8p, a meiotic recombination and sister chromatid cohesion phosphoprotein of the Rad21p family, conserved from fission yeast to humans. Mol. Cell. Biol. 19: 3515-3528.
47. PONTICELLI, A. S., and G. R. SMITH, 1989 Meiotic recombination-deficient mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 123: 45-54.
48. RASOOLY, R. S., C. M. NEW, P. ZHANG, R. S. HAWLEY and B. S. BAKER, 1991 The lethal(1)TW-6cs mutation of Drosophila melanogaster is a dominant antimorphic allele of nod and is associated with a single base change in the putative ATP-binding domain. Genetics 129: 409-422.
49. ROEDER, G. S., 1997 Meiotic chromosomes: it takes two to tango. Genes Dev. 11: 2600-2621.
50. SCHERTHAN, H., J. BAHLER and J. KOHLI, 1994 Dynamics of chromosome organization and pairing during meiotic prophase in fission yeast. J. Cell Biol. 127: 273-285.
51. SHERMAN, S. L., M. B. PETERSEN, S. B. FREEMAN, J. HERSEY, D. PETTAY et al., 1994 Non-disjunction of chromosome 21 in maternal meiosis I: evidence for a maternal age-dependent mechanism involving reduced recombination. Hum. Mol. Genet. 3: 1529-1535.
52. +, is required for the formation of meiotic prophase-specific nuclear architecture. Mol. Gen. Genet. 254: 238-249.
53. SHIMODA, C., A. HIRATA, M. KISHIDA, T. HASHIDA and K. TANAKA, 1985 Characterization of meiosis-deficient mutants by electron microscopy and mapping of four essential genes in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Mol. Gen. Genet. 200: 252-257.
54. TANAKA, K., and A. HIRATA, 1982 Ascospore development in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and S. japonicus. J. Cell Sci. 56: 263-279.
55. TATEBAYASHI, K., J. KATO and H. IKEDA, 1998 Isolation of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad21ts mutant that is aberrant in chromosome segregation, microtubule function, DNA repair and sensitive to hydroxyurea: possible involvement of Rad21 in ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. Genetics 148: 49-57.