Meiotic pairing: a place to hook up.
At one end of each Caenorhabditis elegans chromosome is a locus required for meiotic crossing over. Recent studies have shown that these sites mediate chromosome pairing and synapsis during meiosis, and that each site contains binding sites for a non-canonical C2H2 zinc finger protein.
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Waksman Institute and Department of Genetics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, USA. mckim@rci.rutgers.edu
D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics*; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D023902:Chromosome Pairing; D003434:Crossing Over, Genetic; D008540:Meiosis; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016335:Zinc Fingers / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology
D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins