Alignment of Homologous Chromosomes and Effective Repair of Programmed DNA Double-Strand Breaks during Mouse Meiosis Require the Minichromosome Maintenance Domain Containing 2 (MCMDC2) Protein

MCM: one ring to rule them all

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Top3-Rmi1 DNA Single-Strand Decatenase Is Integral to the Formation and Resolution of Meiotic Recombination Intermediates

(2015) Hardeep Kaur et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

MCM9 Is Required for Mammalian DNA Mismatch Repair

(2015) Sabine Traver et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Pervasive and Essential Roles of the Top3-Rmi1 Decatenase Orchestrate Recombination and Facilitate Chromosome Segregation in Meiosis

(2015) Shangming Tang et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

MCM8-9 complex promotes resection of double-strand break ends by MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 complex

(2015) Kyung Yong Lee et al.   Nature Communications

The ATM Signaling Cascade Promotes Recombination-Dependent Pachytene Arrest in Mouse Spermatocytes

(2015) Sarai Pacheco et al.   PLoS Genetics

Homologue engagement controls meiotic DNA break number and distribution

(2014) Drew Thacker et al.   NATURE

DNA Strand Exchange and RecA Homologs in Meiosis

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Initiation of Meiotic Recombination: How and Where? Conservation and Specificities Among Eukaryotes

(2013) Bernard de Massy   Annual Review of Genetics

The MCM8-MCM9 Complex Promotes RAD51 Recruitment at DNA Damage Sites To Facilitate Homologous Recombination

(2013) J. Park et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

MCM8 Is Required for a Pathway of Meiotic Double-Strand Break Repair Independent of DMC1 in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2013) Wayne Crismani et al.   PLoS Genetics

The mammalian synaptonemal complex: Protein components, assembly and role in meiotic recombination

(2012) Johanna Fraune et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Meiotic DNA double-strand breaks and chromosome asynapsis in mice are monitored by distinct HORMAD2-independent and -dependent mechanisms

(2012) L. Wojtasz et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Multiple Barriers to Nonhomologous DNA End Joining During Meiosis in Drosophila

(2012) Eric F. Joyce et al.   GENETICS

MCM8- and MCM9-Deficient Mice Reveal Gametogenesis Defects and Genome Instability Due to Impaired Homologous Recombination

(2012) Malik Lutzmann et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Mcm8 and Mcm9 Form a Complex that Functions in Homologous Recombination Repair Induced by DNA Interstrand Crosslinks

(2012) Kohei Nishimura et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Evolution of an MCM Complex in Flies That Promotes Meiotic Crossovers by Blocking BLM Helicase

(2012) K. P. Kohl et al.   SCIENCE

Rad51 Is an Accessory Factor for Dmc1-Mediated Joint Molecule Formation During Meiosis

(2012) V. Cloud et al.   SCIENCE

Spo11-Accessory Proteins Link Double-Strand Break Sites to the Chromosome Axis in Early Meiotic Recombination

(2011) Silvia Panizza et al.   CELL

Meiotic homologue alignment and its quality surveillance are controlled by mouse HORMAD1

(2011) Katrin Daniel et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Minichromosome maintenance helicase paralog MCM9 is dispensible for DNA replication but functions in germ-line stem cells and tumor suppression

(2011) S. A. Hartford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Novel Mouse Synaptonemal Complex Protein Is Essential for Loading of Central Element Proteins, Recombination, and Fertility

(2011) Sabine Schramm et al.   PLoS Genetics

Functional conservation of Mei4 for meiotic DNA double-strand break formation from yeasts to mice

(2010) R. Kumar et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

An improved Flp deleter mouse in C57Bl/6 based on Flpo recombinase

(2010) Andrea Kranz et al.   GENESIS

Mammalian BLM helicase is critical for integrating multiple pathways of meiotic recombination

(2010) J. Kim Holloway et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Trying to Avoid Your Sister

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Fluorescence activated cell sorting of live female germ cells and somatic cells of the mouse fetal gonad based on forward and side scattering

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The consequences of asynapsis for mammalian meiosis

(2009) Paul S. Burgoyne et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Mutation of the Mouse Syce1 Gene Disrupts Synapsis and Suggests a Link between Synaptonemal Complex Structural Components and DNA Repair

(2009) Ewelina Bolcun-Filas et al.   PLoS Genetics

Mouse HORMAD1 and HORMAD2, Two Conserved Meiotic Chromosomal Proteins, Are Depleted from Synapsed Chromosome Axes with the Help of TRIP13 AAA-ATPase

(2009) Lukasz Wojtasz et al.   PLoS Genetics

Extensive meiotic asynapsis in mice antagonises meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin and consequently disrupts meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

(2008) Shantha K. Mahadevaiah et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Progression of meiotic recombination requires structural maturation of the central element of the synaptonemal complex

(2008) G. Hamer et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

RecQ Helicase, Sgs1, and XPF Family Endonuclease, Mus81-Mms4, Resolve Aberrant Joint Molecules during Meiotic Recombination

(2008) Steve D. Oh et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Mus81/Mms4 Endonuclease and Sgs1 Helicase Collaborate to Ensure Proper Recombination Intermediate Metabolism during Meiosis

(2008) Lea Jessop et al.   MOLECULAR CELL