Assembling pieces of the centromere epigenetics puzzle

The centromere is a key region for cell division where the kinetochore assembles, recognizes and attaches to microtubules so that each sister chromatid can segregate to each daughter cell. The centromeric chromatin is a unique rigid chromatin state promoted by the presence of the histone H3 variant...

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Main Authors: González-Barrios, Rodrigo, Soto-Reyes, Ernesto, Herrera, Luis A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Landes Bioscience 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329500/