Affiliation:
1. Advanced Genomics Center National Institute of Genetics Shizuoka Japan
2. Tokyo Women's Medical University Tokyo Japan
3. Faculty of Medicine University of Tsukuba Ibaraki Japan
4. Kyoto University Kyoto Japan
Abstract
AbstractDuring meiosis, chromosomes with homologous partners undergo synaptonemal complex (SC)‐mediated pairing, while the remaining unpaired chromosomes are heterochromatinized through unpaired silencing. Mechanisms underlying homolog recognition during SC formation are still unclear. Here, we show that the Caenorhabditis elegans Argonaute proteins, CSR‐1 and its paralog CSR‐2, interacting with 22G‐RNAs, are required for synaptonemal complex formation with accurate homology. CSR‐1 in nuclei and meiotic cohesin, constituting the SC lateral elements, were associated with nonsimple DNA repeats, including minisatellites and transposons, and weakly associated with coding genes. CSR‐1‐associated CeRep55 minisatellites were expressing 22G‐RNAs and long noncoding (lnc) RNAs that colocalized with synaptonemal complexes on paired chromosomes and with cohesin regions of unpaired chromosomes. CeRep55 multilocus deletions reduced the efficiencies of homologous pairing and unpaired silencing, which were supported by the csr‐1 activity. Moreover, CSR‐1 and CSR‐2 were required for proper heterochromatinization of unpaired chromosomes. These findings suggest that CSR‐1 and CSR‐2 play crucial roles in homology recognition, achieving accurate SC formation between chromosome pairs and condensing unpaired chromosomes by targeting repeat‐derived lncRNAs.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Molecular Biology,General Neuroscience
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