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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014

Kinetochore assembly and heterochromatin formation occur autonomously in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

William R A Brown, Geraint Thomas, Nicholas C O Lee, Martin Blythe, Gianni Liti, Jonas Warringer, Matthew W Loose

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

William R A BrownSchool of Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom and Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden.
Geraint Thomas
Nicholas C O Lee
Martin Blythe
Gianni Liti
Jonas Warringer
Matthew W Loose
Queen's Medical Centre · GBUniversity of Nottingham · GBUniversity of Gothenburg · SE

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H005277/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kinetochores in multicellular eukaryotes are usually associated with heterochromatin. Whether this heterochromatin simply promotes the cohesion necessary for accurate chromosome segregation at cell division or whether it also has a role in kinetochore assembly is unclear. Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an important experimental system for investigating centromere function, but all of the previous work with this species has exploited a single strain or its derivatives. The laboratory strain and most other S. pombe strains contain three chromosomes, but one recently discovered strain, CBS 2777, contains four. We show that the genome of CBS 2777 is related to that of the laboratory strain by a complex chromosome rearrangement. As a result, two of the kinetochores in CBS 2777 contain the central core sequences present in the laboratory strain centromeres, but lack adjacent heterochromatin. The closest block of heterochromatin to these rearranged kinetochores is ∼100 kb away at new telomeres. Despite lacking large amounts of adjacent heterochromatin, the rearranged kinetochores bind CENP-A(Cnp1) and CENP-C(Cnp3) in similar quantities and with similar specificities as those of the laboratory strain. The simplest interpretation of this result is that constitutive kinetochore assembly and heterochromatin formation occur autonomously.

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DNA, FungalGenome, FungalHeterochromatinKinetochoresModels, BiologicalProtein BindingSchizosaccharomycesSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsTelomereDNA, FungalHeterochromatinSchizosaccharomyces pombe Proteinsepigenesismicrobial diversityyeast

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PMID24449889
PMCPMC3918819
OpenAlexW1981521972

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