Mnd1 is required for meiotic interhomolog repair

C Zierhut, M Berlinger, C Rupp, A Shinohara, F Klein - Current Biology, 2004 - cell.com
Background: While double-strand break (DSB) repair is vital to the survival of cells during
both meiosis and mitosis, the preferred mechanism of repair differs drastically between the …

MND1 enables homologous recombination in somatic cells primarily outside the context of replication

L Koob, A Friskes, L van Bergen, FM Feringa… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Faithful and timely repair of DNA double‐strand breaks (DSBs) is fundamental for the
maintenance of genomic integrity. Here, we demonstrate that the meiotic recombination co …

Repair of meiotic DNA breaks and homolog pairing in mouse meiosis requires a minichromosome maintenance (MCM) paralog

AJ McNairn, VD Rinaldi, JC Schimenti - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The mammalian Mcm-domain containing 2 (Mcmdc2) gene encodes a protein of unknown
function that is homologous to the minichromosome maintenance family of DNA replication …

The Mnd1 protein forms a complex with hop2 to promote homologous chromosome pairing and meiotic double-strand break repair

H Tsubouchi, GS Roeder - Molecular and cellular biology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The hop2 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae arrests in meiosis with extensive
synaptonemal complex (SC) formation between nonhomologous chromosomes. A screen …

High copy number suppression of the meiotic arrest caused by a dmc1 mutation: REC114 imposes an early recombination block and RAD54 promotes a DMC1 …

DK Bishop, Y Nikolski, J Oshiro, J Chon… - Genes to …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Background DMC1, the meiosis‐specific eukaryotic homologue of bacterial recA, is required
for completion of meiotic recombination and cell cycle progression past prophase. In a dmc1 …

Chromosome synapsis alleviates Mek1-dependent suppression of meiotic DNA repair

VV Subramanian, AJ MacQueen, G Vader… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Faithful meiotic chromosome segregation and fertility require meiotic recombination
between homologous chromosomes rather than the equally available sister chromatid, a …

Mek1 suppression of meiotic double-strand break repair is specific to sister chromatids, chromosome autonomous and independent of Rec8 cohesin complexes

TL Callender, NM Hollingsworth - Genetics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
During meiosis, recombination is directed to occur between homologous chromosomes to
create connections necessary for proper segregation at meiosis I. Partner choice is …

Mnd1p: an evolutionarily conserved protein required for meiotic recombination

JL Gerton, JL DeRisi - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
We used a functional genomics approach to identify a gene required for meiotic
recombination, YGL183c or MND1. MND1 was spliced in meiotic cells, extending the …

Atmnd1-Δ1 is sensitive to gamma-irradiation and defective in meiotic DNA repair

S Domenichini, C Raynaud, DA Ni, Y Henry… - DNA repair, 2006 - Elsevier
The efficient repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in genomic DNA is crucial for the survival
of all organisms. Mnd1 is suggested to promote the strand invasion step during meiotic …

Evidence that MEK1 positively promotes interhomologue double-strand break repair

Y Terentyev, R Johnson, MJ Neale… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
During meiosis there is an imperative to create sufficient crossovers for homologue
segregation. This can be achieved during repair of programmed DNA double-strand breaks …