HAL-2 Promotes Homologous Pairing during Caenorhabditis elegans Meiosis by Antagonizing Inhibitory Effects of Synaptonemal Complex Precursors

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Weibin ^a   Miley, Natasha ^a   Zastrow, Michael S ^a   MacQueen, Amy J ^a,c   Sato, Aya ^b   Nabeshima, Kentaro ^a,d   Martinez Perez, Enrique ^a,e   Mlynarczyk Evans, Susanna ^a   Carlton, Peter M ^b   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HOMOLOG ALIGNMENT 2 PROTEIN; POLO LIKE KINASE 2; PROTEIN SUN 1; PROTEIN SYP; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PROGENY; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84866152259     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002880     Document Type: Article

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