Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Proline-rich protein PRR19 functions with cyclin-like CNTD1 to promote meiotic crossing over in mouse

  • Anastasiia Bondarieva,
  • Kavya Raveendran,
  • Vladyslav Telychko,
  • H. B. D. Prasada Rao,
  • Ramya Ravindranathan,
  • Chrysoula Zorzompokou,
  • Friederike Finsterbusch,
  • Ihsan Dereli,
  • Frantzeskos Papanikos,
  • Daniel Tränkner,
  • Alexander Schleiffer,
  • Ji-Feng Fei,
  • Anna Klimova,
  • Masaru Ito,
  • Dhananjaya S. Kulkarni,
  • Ingo Roeder,
  • Neil Hunter,
  • Attila Tóth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16885-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Crossing over is a critical process during meiosis, although the regulation of this process still remains somewhat elusive. Here, the authors show that PRR19 partners with CNTD1 to enable formation of crossover-specific recombination complexes in mouse germ cells.