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Published on October 26, 2007; 10.1105/tpc.107.054817

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Received August 6, 2007
Returned for revision October 10, 2007
Accepted October 15, 2007

The Catalytically Active Tyrosine Residues of Both SPO11-1 and SPO11-2 Are Required for Meiotic Double-Strand Break Induction in Arabidopsis

Frank Hartung 1, Rebecca Wurz-Wildersinn 1, Jörg Fuchs 2, Ingo Schubert 2, Stefanie Suer 1, and Holger Puchta 1*

1 Botanisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
2 Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: holger.puchta{at}bio.uni-karlsruhe.de.

SPO11, a homolog of the subunit A of the archaebacterial topoisomerase VI, is essential for double-strand break (DSB)–induced initiation of meiotic recombination. In contrast with single homologs in animals and yeasts, three homologs are present in Arabidopsis thaliana and other higher plants. Whereas At SPO11-3 is involved in somatic endoreduplication, At SPO11-1 and, as recently shown, At SPO11-2 are essential for the initiation of meiotic recombination. Further defining the role of At SPO11-2, we were able to demonstrate that it is required for proper chromosome segregation, as its loss resulted in aneuploidy in the surviving progeny. The double mutant spo11-1 spo11-2 does not differ phenotypically from the single mutants, indicating that both proteins are required for the same step. Contrary to the observations for the At rad51-1 single mutant, the combination of spo11-2 and rad51-1 did not lead to chromosome fragmentation, indicating that SPO11-2, like SPO11-1, is required for DSB induction. As the meiotic phenotype of both single SPO11 mutants can be reversed by complementation using the full-length genes but not the same constructs mutated in their respective catalytically active Tyr, both proteins seem to participate directly in the DNA breakage reaction. The active involvement of two SPO11 homologs for DSB formation reveals a striking difference between plants and other eukaryotes in meiosis.






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