NCBI Accession #
NP_176582.2
NCBI GenBank Nucleotide #
NM_105072.3
NCBI Official Full Name
sporulation 11-2
NCBI Official Symbol
SPO11-2
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols
F22C12.24; F22C12_24; sporulation 11-2
NCBI Protein Information
sporulation 11-2
NCBI Summary
Encodes AtSPO11-2, one of the three Arabidopsis homologues of the archaeal DNA topoisomerase VIA subunit (topo VIA). Required for meiotic recombination. Plants homozygous for atspo11-2 exhibit a severe sterility phenotype. Both male and female meiosis are severely disrupted in the atspo11-2 mutant, and this is associated with severe defects in synapsis during the first meiotic division and reduced meiotic recombination. AtSPO11-1 and AtSPO11-2 have overlapping functions (i.e. both required for meiotic recombination) whereas AtSPO11-3 functions in DNA replication. Required for double-strand break induction.
UniProt Gene Name
SPO11-2
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
AtSPO11-2
UniProt Protein Name
Meiotic recombination protein SPO11-2
UniProt Primary Accession #
Q9M4A1
UniProt Secondary Accession #
Q9SH50
UniProt Related Accession #
Q9M4A1
UniProt Comments
Component of a topoisomerase 6 complex specifically required for meiotic recombination (PubMed:17018031, PubMed:17965269, PubMed:26917763). Together with MTOPVIB, mediates DNA cleavage that forms the double-strand breaks (DSB) that initiate meiotic recombination (PubMed:26917763). The complex promotes relaxation of negative and positive supercoiled DNA and DNA decatenation through cleavage and ligation cycles (PubMed:17018031, PubMed:17965269, PubMed:26917763).