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Tid1/Rdh54 Promotes Colocalization Of Rad51 And Dmc1 During Meiotic Recombination, Stephen L. Gasior
Tid1/Rdh54 Promotes Colocalization Of Rad51 And Dmc1 During Meiotic Recombination, Stephen L. Gasior
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Two RecA homologs, Rad51 and Dmc1, assemble as cytologically visible complexes (foci) at the same sites on meiotic chromosomes. Time course analysis confirms that co-foci appear and disappear as the single predominant form. A large fraction of co-foci are eliminated in a red1 mutant, which is expected as a characteristic of the interhomolog-specific recombination pathway. Previous studies suggested that normal Dmc1 loading depends on Rad51. We show here that a mutation in TID1/RDH54, encoding a RAD54 homolog, reduces Rad51-Dmc1 colocalization relative to WT. A rad54 mutation, in contrast, has relatively little effect on RecA homolog foci except when strains also …