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A search for proteins similar to known synaptonemal complex (SC) proteins of seven higher eukaryote species, from budding yeast to mice (which are widely used as models for the study of meiosis), was conducted in the proteomes of algae, mosses, lower fungi, and Protozoa, using bioinformatics methods. It was established that proteins containing the HORMA domain have the largest similarity with the SC proteins of model organisms in proteomes of green and brown algae, mosses, and a number of lower fungi, as well as Euglenozoa, Sporozoa, and some other unicellular eukaryotes. They are close to the proteins of the lateral elements of the SC of higher eukaryotes that also carry the HORMA domain. This domain recognizes the state of chromatin and recruits other proteins for SC construction.
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Original Russian Text © T.M. Grishaeva, Yu.F. Bogdanov, 2013, published in Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genetiki i Selektsii, 2013, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 335–342.
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Grishaeva, T.M., Bogdanov, Y.F. On the origin of synaptonemal complex proteins. Search for related proteins in proteomes of algae, lower fungi, mosses, and protozoa. Russ J Genet Appl Res 3, 481–486 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079059713060038
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