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Published on March 18, 2004; 10.1105/tpc.020701

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Received January 5, 2004
Accepted February 1, 2004

The Novel Gene HOMOLOGOUS PAIRING ABERRATION IN RICE MEIOSIS1 of Rice Encodes a Putative Coiled-Coil Protein Required for Homologous Chromosome Pairing in Meiosis

Ken-Ichi Nonomura 1*, Mutsuko Nakano 1, Toshiyuki Fukuda 2, Mitsugu Eiguchi 1, Akio Miyao 3, Hirohiko Hirochika 3, and Nori Kurata 2

1 Experimental Farm/Plant Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
2 Experimental Farm/Plant Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan; Department of Life Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies/Sokendai, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
3 Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kannondai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: knonomur{at}lab.nig.ac.jp.

We have identified and characterized a novel gene, PAIR1 (HOMOLOGOUS PAIRING ABERRATION IN RICE MEIOSIS1), required for homologous chromosome pairing and cytokinesis in male and female meiocytes of rice (Oryza sativa). The pair1 mutation, tagged by the endogenous retrotransposon Tos17, exhibited meiosis-specific defects and resulted in complete sterility in male and female gametes. The PAIR1 gene encodes a 492-amino acid protein, which contains putative coiled-coil motifs in the middle, two basic regions at both termini, and a potential nuclear localization signal at the C terminus. Expression of the PAIR1 gene was detected in the early stages of flower development, in which the majority of the sporocytes had not entered meiosis. During prophase I of the pair1 meiocyte, all the chromosomes became entangled to form a compact sphere adhered to a nucleolus, and homologous pairing failed. At anaphase I and telophase I, chromosome nondisjunction and degenerated spindle formation resulted in multiple uneven spore production. However, chromosomal fragmentation frequent in plant meiotic mutants was never observed in all of the pair1 meiocytes. These observations clarify that the PAIR1 protein plays an essential role in establishment of homologous chromosome pairing in rice meiosis.




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