The Double-Strand Break Landscape of Meiotic Chromosomes Is Shaped by the Paf1 Transcription Elongation Complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SK Gothwal, NJ Patel, MM Colletti, H Sasanuma… - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Histone modification is a critical determinant of the frequency and location of meiotic double-
strand breaks (DSBs), and thus recombination. Set1-dependent histone H3K4 methylation …

Genetic interactions of histone modification machinery Set1 and PAF1C with the recombination complex rec114-mer2-mei4 in the formation of meiotic DNA double …

Y Zhang, T Suzuki, K Li, SK Gothwal… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Homologous recombination is essential for chromosome segregation during meiosis I.
Meiotic recombination is initiated by the introduction of double-strand breaks (DSBs) at …

Histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation marks meiotic recombination initiation sites

V Borde, N Robine, W Lin, S Bonfils, V Geli… - The EMBO …, 2009 - embopress.org
The function of histone modifications in initiating and regulating the chromosomal events of
the meiotic prophase remains poorly understood. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we …

Suppression of Meiotic Recombination by CENP-B Homologs in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

P Johansen, HP Cam - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Meiotic homologous recombination (HR) is not uniform across eukaryotic genomes, creating
regions of HR hot-and coldspots. Previous study reveals that the Spo11 homolog Rec12 …

Dot1-dependent histone H3K79 methylation promotes the formation of meiotic double-strand breaks in the absence of histone H3K4 methylation in budding yeast

M Bani Ismail, M Shinohara, A Shinohara - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Epigenetic marks such as histone modifications play roles in various chromosome dynamics
in mitosis and meiosis. Methylation of histones H3 at positions K4 and K79 is involved in the …

Acetylated Histone H3K9 is associated with meiotic recombination hotspots, and plays a role in recombination redundantly with other factors including the H3K4 …

S Yamada, K Ohta, T Yamada - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Histone modifications are associated with meiotic recombination hotspots, discrete sites with
augmented recombination frequency. For example, trimethylation of histone H3 lysine4 …

Histone H3 Lysine 56 Acetylation Is Required for Formation of Normal Levels of Meiotic DNA Breaks in S. cerevisiae

Z Karányi, L Hornyák, L Székvölgyi - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Meiotic recombination is initiated by Spo11-catalyzed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs)
that are promoted by histone modifications and histone modifying enzymes. Herein we …

The PHD finger protein Spp1 has distinct functions in the Set1 and the meiotic DSB formation complexes

C Adam, R Guérois, A Citarella, L Verardi… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Histone H3K4 methylation is a feature of meiotic recombination hotspots shared by many
organisms including plants and mammals. Meiotic recombination is initiated by programmed …

High-Resolution Global Analysis of the Influences of Bas1 and Ino4 Transcription Factors on Meiotic DNA Break Distributions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

X Zhu, S Keeney - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Meiotic recombination initiates with DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) made by Spo11. In
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, many DSBs occur in “hotspots” coinciding with nucleosome …

Scale matters: the spatial correlation of yeast meiotic DNA breaks with histone H3 trimethylation is driven largely by independent colocalization at promoters

SE Tischfield, S Keeney - Cell Cycle, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
During meiosis in many organisms, homologous chromosomes engage in numerous
recombination events initiated by DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) formed by the Spo11 …