The Cohesin Subunit Rad21 Is Required for Synaptonemal Complex Maintenance, but Not Sister Chromatid Cohesion, during Drosophila Female Meiosis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Urban, Evelin ^a   Nagarkar Jaiswal, Sonal ^a,c   Lehner, Christian F ^b   Heidmann, Stefan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA KLEISIN; COHESIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN MCD1; PROTEIN RAD21; PROTEIN REC8; PROTEIN SCC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; RAD21 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SISTER CHROMATID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ANIMAL; CENTROMERE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84908636304     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004540     Document Type: Article

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