bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.17.876854; this version posted December 17, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Yamada et al., December 15, 2019 – bioRxiv preprint v1 Molecular structures and mechanisms of DNA break processing in mouse meiosis Shintaro Yamada1,2, Anjali Gupta Hinch3, Hisashi Kamido1,2, Yongwei Zhang4, Winfried Edelmann4 & Scott Keeney1,5 * 1 Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA 2 Department of Radiation Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan 3 Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 4 Department of Cell Biology and Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. 5 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA * Correspondence:
[email protected] Exonucleolytic resection, critical to repair double-strand breaks A key determinant of hotspot locations in mice and humans is (DSBs) by recombination, is not well understood, particularly in PRDM9, which contains a sequence-specific zinc-finger DNA binding mammalian meiosis. Here, we define structures of resected DSBs in domain and a PR/SET domain that methylates histone H3 on lysines 4 mouse spermatocytes genome-wide at nucleotide resolution. Resec- and 36 (Baudat et al. 2010; Myers et al. 2010; Brick et al. 2012; Wu et tion tracts averaged 1100 nucleotides, but with substantial fine- al.