Expression of the AtDMC1 is restricted to pollen mother cells in anthers and to megaspore mother cells in ovules. Similar to meiosis-specific yeast DMC gene.
Computational Description
DISRUPTION OF MEIOTIC CONTROL 1 (DMC1); FUNCTIONS IN: in 6 functions; INVOLVED IN: DNA repair, meiosis, chiasma assembly, reciprocal meiotic recombination, DNA metabolic process; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 25 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 12 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: DNA recombination/repair protein RecA/RadB, ATP-binding domain (InterPro:IPR020588), DNA repair Rad51/transcription factor NusA, alpha-helical (InterPro:IPR010995), ATPase, AAA+ type, core (InterPro:IPR003593), Meiotic recombinase Dmc1 (InterPro:IPR011940), DNA recombination and repair protein, RecA-like (InterPro:IPR016467), DNA recombination/repair protein RecA, monomer-monomer interface (InterPro:IPR020587), DNA recombination and repair protein Rad51, C-terminal (InterPro:IPR013632); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: RAS associated with diabetes protein 51 (TAIR:AT5G20850.1); Has 11998 Blast hits to 11924 proteins in 3797 species: Archae - 689; Bacteria - 8026; Metazoa - 742; Fungi - 447; Plants - 503; Viruses - 22; Other Eukaryotes - 1569 (source: NCBI BLink).