SUMO Localizes to the Central Element of Synaptonemal Complex and Is Required for the Full Synapsis of Meiotic Chromosomes in Budding Yeast

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Voelkel Meiman, Karen ^a   Taylor, Louis F ^a   Mukherjee, Pritam ^a   Humphryes, Neil ^b   Tsubouchi, Hideo ^b   MacQueen, Amy J ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECM11 PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SUMO PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIP1 PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BUDDING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SMT3 GENE; SPOROGENESIS; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; SUMOYLATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; YEAST;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROPHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUMO-1 PROTEIN; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84887309713     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003837     Document Type: Article

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