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Identification of a maize neocentromere in an oat-maize addition line.


ABSTRACT: We report a neocentromere event on maize chromosome 3 that occurred due to chromosome breakage. The neocentromere lies on a fragment of the short arm that lacks the primary centromere DNA elements, CentC and CRM. It is transmitted in the genomic background of oat via a new centromere (and kinetochore), as shown by immunolocalization of the oat CENH3 protein. Despite normal transmission of the maize fragment in most progeny, neocentromeres appear to vary in size within the same tissue, as shown by fluorescent measurements. A secondary truncation in one line lowered mitotic transmission to 3% and precipitously reduced the size of the chromosome. The results support the view that neocentromere formation is generally associated with major genomic disturbances such as wide species crosses or deletion of an existing centromere. The data further suggest that new centromeres may undergo a period of instability that is corrected over a period of several generations.

SUBMITTER: Topp CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2813801 | biostudies-literature | 2009

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification of a maize neocentromere in an oat-maize addition line.

Topp C N CN   Okagaki R J RJ   Melo J R JR   Kynast R G RG   Phillips R L RL   Dawe R K RK  

Cytogenetic and genome research 20090625 3-4


We report a neocentromere event on maize chromosome 3 that occurred due to chromosome breakage. The neocentromere lies on a fragment of the short arm that lacks the primary centromere DNA elements, CentC and CRM. It is transmitted in the genomic background of oat via a new centromere (and kinetochore), as shown by immunolocalization of the oat CENH3 protein. Despite normal transmission of the maize fragment in most progeny, neocentromeres appear to vary in size within the same tissue, as shown b  ...[more]

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