Leptotene/zygotene chromosome movement via the SUN/KASH protein bridge in Caenorhabditis elegans |
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Authors: | Baudrimont Antoine Penkner Alexandra Woglar Alexander Machacek Thomas Wegrostek Christina Gloggnitzer Jiradet Fridkin Alexandra Klein Franz Gruenbaum Yosef Pasierbek Pawel Jantsch Verena |
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Institution: | Department of Chromosome Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. |
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Abstract: | The Caenorhabditis elegans inner nuclear envelope protein matefin/SUN-1 plays a conserved, pivotal role in the process of genome haploidization. CHK-2-dependent phosphorylation of SUN-1 regulates homologous chromosome pairing and interhomolog recombination in Caenorhabditis elegans. Using time-lapse microscopy, we characterized the movement of matefin/SUN-1::GFP aggregates (the equivalent of chromosomal attachment plaques) and showed that the dynamics of matefin/SUN-1 aggregates remained unchanged throughout leptonene/zygotene, despite the progression of pairing. Movement of SUN-1 aggregates correlated with chromatin polarization. We also analyzed the requirements for the formation of movement-competent matefin/SUN-1 aggregates in the context of chromosome structure and found that chromosome axes were required to produce wild-type numbers of attachment plaques. Abrogation of synapsis led to a deceleration of SUN-1 aggregate movement. Analysis of matefin/SUN-1 in a double-strand break deficient mutant revealed that repair intermediates influenced matefin/SUN-1 aggregate dynamics. Investigation of movement in meiotic regulator mutants substantiated that proper orchestration of the meiotic program and effective repair of DNA double-strand breaks were necessary for the wild-type behavior of matefin/SUN-1 aggregates. |
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