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Synaptonemal complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Liquid crystalline structure that forms a large scaffold connecting homologous chromosomes from end to end during meiotic prophase I. . Required for stabilising chromosome pairing and alignment, and for crossover events and chiasmata formation between homologous chromosome pairs. Mediates the lengthwise alignment of homologous chromsomes within 100 nm of each other with thread-like axial or lateral elements are paired together by transverse filaments formed by oligomerized ZIP1 proteins.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

DNA metabolic process, DNA recombination, chromosome organization, chromosome, nuclear chromosome, organelle, intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle