Meiotic cohesin REC8 marks the axial elements of rat synaptonemal complexes before cohesins SMC1β and SMC3

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 657-670

  Eijpe, Maureen ^a   Offenberg, Hildo ^a   Jessberger, Rolf ^b   Revenkova, Ekaterina ^b   Heyting, Christa ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial element; Meiosis; Rat; Sister chromatid cohesion; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; COHESIN REC8; COHESIN SMC1BETA; COHESIN SMC3; PROTEIN SCP2; PROTEIN SCP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SISTER CHROMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RATS; S PHASE; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037416128     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200212080     Document Type: Article

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