MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK.
Genome Biol. 2010;11(2):104. doi: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-104. Epub 2010 Feb 26.
Meiotic recombination events are spread nonrandomly across eukaryotic genomes in 'hotspots'. Recent work shows that a unique histone methyltransferase, PRDM9, determines their distribution.
减数分裂重组事件在真核生物基因组中“热点”处呈非随机分布。最近的研究表明,一种独特的组蛋白甲基转移酶 PRDM9 决定了它们的分布。