Catching a (Double-Strand) Break: The Rad51 and Dmc1 Strand Exchange Proteins Can Co-occupy Both Ends of a Meiotic DNA Double-Strand Break.

by Amy J MacQueen
Published 2015-12-01

HO Endonuclease-Initiated Recombination in Yeast Meiosis Fails To Promote Homologous Centromere Pairing and Is Not Constrained To Utilize the Dmc1 Recombinase

by Lina Yisehak, Amy J. MacQueen
Published 2018-11-01

Full-length synaptonemal complex grows continuously during meiotic prophase in budding yeast.

by Karen Voelkel-Meiman, Sarah S Moustafa, Philippe Lefrançois, Anne M Villeneuve, Amy J MacQueen
Published 2012-01-01

SUMO localizes to the central element of synaptonemal complex and is required for the full synapsis of meiotic chromosomes in budding yeast.

by Karen Voelkel-Meiman, Louis F Taylor, Pritam Mukherjee, Neil Humphryes, Hideo Tsubouchi, Amy J Macqueen
Published 2013-01-01

Separable Crossover-Promoting and Crossover-Constraining Aspects of Zip1 Activity during Budding Yeast Meiosis.

by Karen Voelkel-Meiman, Cassandra Johnston, Yashna Thappeta, Vijayalakshmi V Subramanian, Andreas Hochwagen, Amy J MacQueen
Published 2015-06-01

Chromosome Synapsis Alleviates Mek1-Dependent Suppression of Meiotic DNA Repair.

by Vijayalakshmi V Subramanian, Amy J MacQueen, Gerben Vader, Miki Shinohara, Aurore Sanchez, Valérie Borde, Akira Shinohara, Andreas Hochwagen
Published 2016-02-01

Reduced dosage of the chromosome axis factor Red1 selectively disrupts the meiotic recombination checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

by Tovah E Markowitz, Daniel Suarez, Hannah G Blitzblau, Neem J Patel, Andrew L Markhard, Amy J MacQueen, Andreas Hochwagen
Published 2017-07-01

Crossover recombination and synapsis are linked by adjacent regions within the N terminus of the Zip1 synaptonemal complex protein.

by Karen Voelkel-Meiman, Shun-Yun Cheng, Melanie Parziale, Savannah J Morehouse, Arden Feil, Owen R Davies, Arnaud de Muyt, Valérie Borde, Amy J MacQueen
Published 2019-06-01

HAL-2 promotes homologous pairing during Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis by antagonizing inhibitory effects of synaptonemal complex precursors.

by Weibin Zhang, Natasha Miley, Michael S Zastrow, Amy J MacQueen, Aya Sato, Kentaro Nabeshima, Enrique Martinez-Perez, Susanna Mlynarczyk-Evans, Peter M Carlton, Anne M Villeneuve
Published 2012-01-01

A conserved filamentous assembly underlies the structure of the meiotic chromosome axis

by Alan MV West, Scott C Rosenberg, Sarah N Ur, Madison K Lehmer, Qiaozhen Ye, Götz Hagemann, Iracema Caballero, Isabel Usón, Amy J MacQueen, Franz Herzog, Kevin D Corbett
Published 2019-01-01