Structure and Stability of Telocentric Chromosomes in Wheat

dc.citationKoo, D. H., Sehgal, S. K., Friebe, B., & Gill, B. S. (2015). Structure and Stability of Telocentric Chromosomes in Wheat. Plos One, 10(9), 16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137747
dc.citation.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0137747
dc.citation.issn1932-6203
dc.citation.issue9
dc.citation.jtitlePLoS One
dc.citation.spage16
dc.citation.volume10
dc.contributor.authorKoo, D. H.
dc.contributor.authorSehgal, Sunish K.
dc.contributor.authorFriebe, Bernd
dc.contributor.authorGill, Bikram S.
dc.contributor.authoreidfriebe
dc.contributor.authoreidbsgill
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-06T15:14:28Z
dc.date.available2016-04-06T15:14:28Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-18
dc.date.published2015
dc.descriptionCitation: Koo, D. H., Sehgal, S. K., Friebe, B., & Gill, B. S. (2015). Structure and Stability of Telocentric Chromosomes in Wheat. Plos One, 10(9), 16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137747
dc.descriptionIn most eukaryotes, centromeres assemble at a single location per chromosome. Naturally occurring telocentric chromosomes (telosomes) with a terminal centromere are rare but do exist. Telosomes arise through misdivision of centromeres in normal chromosomes, and their cytological stability depends on the structure of their kinetochores. The instability of telosomes may be attributed to the relative centromere size and the degree of completeness of their kinetochore. Here we test this hypothesis by analyzing the cytogenetic structure of wheat telosomes. We used a population of 80 telosomes arising from the misdivision of the 21 chromosomes of wheat that have shown stable inheritance overmany generations. We analyzed centromere size by probing with the centromere-specific histone H3 variant, CENH3. Comparing the signal intensity for CENH3 between the intact chromosome and derived telosomes showed that the telosomes had approximately half the signal intensity compared to that of normal chromosomes. Immunofluorescence of CENH3 in a wheat stock with 28 telosomes revealed that none of the telosomes received a complete CENH3 domain. Some of the telosomes lacked centromere specific retrotransposons of wheat in the CENH3 domain, indicating that the stability of telosomes depends on the presence of CENH3 chromatin and not on the presence of CRW repeats. In addition to providing evidence for centromere shift, we also observed chromosomal aberrations including inversions and deletions in the short arm telosomes of double ditelosomic 1D and 6D stocks. The role of centromere-flanking, pericentromeric heterochromatin in mitosis is discussed with respect to genome/chromosome integrity.
dc.description.versionArticle: Version of Record
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2097/32471
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137747
dc.rights: © 2015 Koo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCentromeric Retrotransposons
dc.subjectTriticum-Aestivum
dc.subjectMaize Centromeres
dc.subjectDna
dc.subjectMethylation
dc.subjectGenome
dc.titleStructure and Stability of Telocentric Chromosomes in Wheat
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