RESEARCH ARTICLE

The key role of CYC2 during meiosis in Tetrahymena thermophila

  • Qianlan Xu 1,2,3 ,
  • Ruoyu Wang 3 ,
  • A. R. Ghanam 3,6 ,
  • Guanxiong Yan 4,5 ,
  • Wei Miao 4 ,
  • Xiaoyuan Song , 1,2,3
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  • 1. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2. CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai 200031, China
  • 3. School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230071, China
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
  • 5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 6. Anatomy and Embryology Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt

Received date: 18 Dec 2015

Accepted date: 12 Feb 2016

Published date: 09 May 2016

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Abstract

Meiotic recombination is carried out through a specialized pathway for the formation and repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) made by the Spo11 protein. The present study shed light on the functional role of cyclin, CYC2, in Tetrahymena thermophila which has transcriptionally high expression level during meiosis process. Knocking out the CYC2 gene results in arrest of meiotic conjugation process at 2.5–3.5 h after conjugation initiation, before the meiosis division starts, and in company with the absence of DSBs. To investigate the underlying mechanism of this phenomenon, a complete transcriptome profile was performed between wild-type strain and CYC2 knock-out strain. Functional analysis of RNA-Seq results identifies related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) including SPO11 and these DEGs are enriched in DNA repair/mismatch repair (MMR) terms in homologous recombination (HR), which indicates that CYC2 could play a crucial role in meiosis by regulating SPO11 and participating in HR.

Cite this article

Qianlan Xu , Ruoyu Wang , A. R. Ghanam , Guanxiong Yan , Wei Miao , Xiaoyuan Song . The key role of CYC2 during meiosis in Tetrahymena thermophila[J]. Protein & Cell, 2016 , 7(4) : 236 -249 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-016-0254-9

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