Matefin/SUN-1 Phosphorylation Is Part of a Surveillance Mechanism to Coordinate Chromosome Synapsis and Recombination with Meiotic Progression and Chromosome Movement

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Woglar, Alexander ^a   Daryabeigi, Anahita ^a   Adamo, Adele ^b   Habacher, Cornelia ^a   Machacek, Thomas ^a   La Volpe, Adriana ^b   Jantsch, Verena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATEFIN PROTEIN; PLK 2 PROTEIN; SUN 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME SYNAPSIS; CHROMOSOMES AND CHROMOSOMAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LEPTOTENE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; X CHROMOSOME; ZYGOTENE; ZYGOTENE ARREST;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOSKELETON; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; MALE; MEIOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84875992102     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003335     Document Type: Article

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