Diaz Smoje, Mariana Andrea (2018). Functional characterization of NSE4 paralogs in Arabidopsis thaliana. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
The control of genome integrity throughout cellular generations is critical for viable plant development and the correct transmission of genetic information to the progeny. Key factor involved in this process is the STRUCTURAL MAINTAINANCE OF CHROMOSOME 5/6 (SMC5/6) complex, related to cohesin and condensin complexes controlling sister chromatid alignment and chromosome condensation, respectively. In my Ph.D project I characterized NON-SMC ELEMENT 4 (NSE4) paralogs of SMC5/6 complex in Arabidopsis. NSE4A is widely expressed in meristems and accumulates during DNA damage repair. Partial loss of function NSE4A mutants are viable, but hypersensitive to DNA damage induced by zebularine. In addition, NSE4A mutants show aberrant seed development, with embryo failing at organogenesis and non-cellularized endosperm. This resembles defects in cohesin and condensin mutants and thus suggests a role for all three SMC complexes in differentiation during seed development in plants. In contrast, NSE4B is expressed only in a few cell types and loss-of-function mutants do not have any obvious phenotype. In summary, this study shows that NSE4A subunit of SMC5/6 complex is essential for DNA damage repair in somatic tissues and plays a role during reproductive development.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-82423 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 5 February 2018 | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen > MPI for Plant Breeding Research | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics Life sciences |
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Date of oral exam: | 2 March 2018 | ||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8242 |
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