title: Cohesin component dynamics during meiotic prophase I in mammalian oocytes.
abstract: Cohesins are chromosomal proteins that form complexes involved in the maintenance of sister chromatid cohesion during division of somatic and germ cells. Three meiosis-specific cohesin subunits have been reported in mammals, REC8, STAG3 and SMC1 beta; their expression in mouse spermatocytes has also been described. Here we studied the localization of different meiotic and mitotic cohesin components during prophase I in human and murine female germ cells. In normal and atretic human fetal oocytes, from leptotene to diplotene stages, REC8 and STAG3 colocalize in fibers. In murine oocytes, SMC1beta, SMC3 and STAG3 are localized along fibers that correspond first to the chromosome axis and then to the synaptonemal complex in pachytene. Mitotic cohesin subunit RAD21 is also found in fibers that decorate the SC during prophase I in mouse oocytes, suggesting a role for this cohesin in mammalian sister chromatid cohesion in female meiosis. We observed that, unlike human oocytes, murine synaptonemal complex protein SYCP3 localizes to nucleoli throughout prophase I stages, and centromeres cluster in discrete locations from leptotene to dictyate. At difference from meiosis in male mice, the cohesin axis is progressively lost during the first week after birth in females with a parallel destruction of the axial elements at dictyate arrest, demonstrating sexual dimorphism in sister chromatid cohesion in meiosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology and Oncology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología/CSIC, UAM Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid E-28049, Spain.
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Prieto
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tease
authors.forename: Nieves
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pezzi
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Buesa
authors.forename: Sagrario
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.forename: Leonor
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kremer
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martínez-A
authors.forename: Maj A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hultén
authors.forename: José L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Barbero
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D002503:Centromere / Q000378:metabolism; D011508:Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D002842:Chromatids / Q000378:metabolism; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005260:Female; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D006801:Humans; D008540:Meiosis; D051379:Mice; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D009865:Oocytes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D011418:Prophase; D000097722:Cohesins
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D011508:Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D000097722:Cohesins; C492317:SMC3 protein, mouse; C465862:Rad21 protein, mouse; C465863:Rec8 protein, mouse; C492318:SMC3 protein, human; C406153:STAG3 protein, human; C438001:Smc1l2 protein, mouse; C498637:Stag3 protein, mouse