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Local chromosome context is a major determinant of crossover pathway biochemistry during budding yeast meiosis.

ABSTRACT: The budding yeast genome contains regions where meiotic recombination initiates more frequently than in others. This pattern parallels enrichment for the meiotic chromosome axis proteins Hop1 and Red1. These proteins are important for Spo11-catalyzed double strand break formation; their contribution to crossover recombination remains undefined. Using the sequence-specific VMA1-derived endonuclease (VDE) to initiate recombination in meiosis, we show that chromosome structure influences the choice of proteins that resolve recombination intermediates to form crossovers. At a Hop1-enriched locus, most VDE-initiated crossovers, like most Spo11-initiated crossovers, required the meiosis-specific MutL? resolvase. In contrast, at a locus with lower Hop1 occupancy, most VDE-initiated crossovers were MutL?-independent. In pch2 mutants, the two loci displayed similar Hop1 occupancy levels, and VDE-induced crossovers were similarly MutL?-dependent. We suggest that meiotic and mitotic recombination pathways coexist within meiotic cells, and that features of meiotic chromosome structure determine whether one or the other predominates in different regions.

SUBMITTER: Medhi D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5222560 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Local chromosome context is a major determinant of crossover pathway biochemistry during budding yeast meiosis.

Medhi Darpan D Goldman Alastair Sh AS Lichten Michael M

eLife 20161118

The budding yeast genome contains regions where meiotic recombination initiates more frequently than in others. This pattern parallels enrichment for the meiotic chromosome axis proteins Hop1 and Red1. These proteins are important for Spo11-catalyzed double strand break formation; their contribution to crossover recombination remains undefined. Using the sequence-specific <i>VMA1</i>-derived endonuclease (VDE) to initiate recombination in meiosis, we show that chromosome structure influences the ...[more]

PMID: 27855779

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Project description:Accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis relies on the presence of crossover events distributed among all chromosomes. MutS? and MutL? homologs (Msh4/5 and Mlh1/3) facilitate the formation of a prominent group of meiotic crossovers that mature within the context of an elaborate chromosomal structure called the synaptonemal complex (SC). SC proteins are required for intermediate steps in the formation of MutS?-MutL? crossovers, but whether the assembled SC structure per se is required for MutS?-MutL?-dependent crossover recombination events is unknown. Here we describe an interspecies complementation experiment that reveals that the mature SC is dispensable for the formation of Mlh3-dependent crossovers in budding yeast. Zip1 forms a major structural component of the budding yeast SC, and is also required for MutS? and MutL?-dependent crossover formation. Kluyveromyces lactis ZIP1 expressed in place of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ZIP1 in S. cerevisiae cells fails to support SC assembly (synapsis) but promotes wild-type crossover levels in those nuclei that progress to form spores. While stable, full-length SC does not assemble in S. cerevisiae cells expressing K. lactis ZIP1, aggregates of K. lactis Zip1 displayed by S. cerevisiae meiotic nuclei are decorated with SC-associated proteins, and K. lactis Zip1 promotes the SUMOylation of the SC central element protein Ecm11, suggesting that K. lactis Zip1 functionally interfaces with components of the S. cerevisiae synapsis machinery. Moreover, K. lactis Zip1-mediated crossovers rely on S. cerevisiae synapsis initiation proteins Zip3, Zip4, Spo16, as well as the Mlh3 protein, as do the crossovers mediated by S. cerevisiae Zip1. Surprisingly, however, K. lactis Zip1-mediated crossovers are largely Msh4/Msh5 (MutS?)-independent. This separation-of-function version of Zip1 thus reveals that neither assembled SC nor MutS? is required for Mlh3-dependent crossover formation per se in budding yeast. Our data suggest that features of S. cerevisiae Zip1 or of the assembled SC in S. cerevisiae normally constrain MutL? to preferentially promote resolution of MutS?-associated recombination intermediates.

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Local chromosome context is a major determinant of crossover pathway biochemistry during budding yeast meiosis.

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Local chromosome context is a major determinant of crossover pathway biochemistry during budding yeast meiosis.

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