Function
Required for fertility. Involved in chromatid cohesion establishment, in chromosome structure during male and female meiosis (e.g. the synapse formation between homologous chromosomes, the recombination, and the cohesion of both chromatid arm and centromere), and in axial element formation. Regulates the switch from mitosis to the reductional meiosis division of megaspores prior to the female gametogenesis (megasporogenesis).
Sequence
MSSTMFVKRNPIRETTAGKISSPSSPTLNVAVAHIRAGSYYEIDASILPQRSPENLKSIRVVMVSKITASDVSLRYPSMFSLRSHFDYSRMNRNKPMKKRSGGGLLPVFDESHVMASELAGDLLYRRIAPHELSMNRNSWGFWVSSSSRRNKFPRREVVSQPAYNTRLCRAASPEGKCSSELKSGGMIKWGRRLRVQYQSRHIDTRKNKEGEESSRVKDEVYKEEEMEKEEDDDDGNEIGGTKQEAKEITNGNRKRKLIESSTERLAQKAKVYDQKKETQIVVYKRKSERKFIDRWSVERYKLAERNMLKVMKEKNAVFGNSILRPELRSEARKLIGDTGLLDHLLKHMAGKVAPGGQDRFMRKHNADGAMEYWLESSDLIHIRKEAGVKDPYWTPPPGWKLGDNPSQDPVCAGEIRDIREELASLKRELKKLASKKEEEELVIMTTPNSCVTSQNDNLMTPAKEIYADLLKKKYKIEDQLVIIGETLRKMEEDMGWLKKTVDENYPKKPDSTETPLLLEDSPPIQTLEGEVKVVNKGNQITESPQNREKGRKHDQQERSPLSLISNTGFRICRPVGMFAWPQLPALAAATDTNASSPSHRQAYPSPFPVKPLAAKRPLGLTFPFTIIPEEAPKNLFNV