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Our latest collaboration with Ron Biggs and John Marko at Northwestern is in the wild. Surprising centromere resistance to deformation even in the absence of most core centromere proteins. With @elinehendrix.bsky.social, Kousik Sundararajan and Mina Sun. #centromere www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Independence of centromeric and pericentromeric chromatin stability on CCAN components
The chromatin of the centromere provides the assembly site for the mitotic kinetochore that couples microtubule attachment and force production to chromosome movement in mitosis. The chromatin of the ...