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Kinetochore Architecture Employs Diverse Linker Strategies Across Evolution
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 The assembly of a functional kinetochore on centromeric chromatin is necessary to connect chromosomes to the mitotic spindle, ensuring accurate chromosome segregation.
Shreyas Sridhar, Tatsuo Fukagawa
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Cell cycle control of kinetochore assembly
Nucleus, 2022 The kinetochore is a large proteinaceous structure assembled on the centromeres of chromosomes. The complex machinery links chromosomes to the mitotic spindle and is essential for accurate chromosome segregation during cell division.
Qianhua Dong, Fei Li
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A coordinated interdependent protein circuitry stabilizes the kinetochore ensemble to protect CENP-A in the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2012 Unlike most eukaryotes, a kinetochore is fully assembled early in the cell cycle in budding yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans. These kinetochores are clustered together throughout the cell cycle.
Jitendra Thakur, Kaustuv Sanyal
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 Kinetochores perform an essential role in eukaryotes, coupling chromosomes to the mitotic spindle. In model organisms they are composed of a centromere-proximal inner kinetochore and an outer kinetochore network that binds to microtubules.
Lorenzo Brusini +6 more
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Biochemical evidence for diverse strategies in the inner kinetochore [PDF]
Open Biology, 2020 The kinetochore is a complex structure whose function is absolutely essential. Unlike the centromere, the kinetochore at first appeared remarkably well conserved from yeast to humans, especially the microtubule-binding outer kinetochore.
G. E. Hamilton, T. N. Davis
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The Mub1/Ubr2 ubiquitin ligase complex regulates the conserved Dsn1 kinetochore protein. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 The kinetochore is the macromolecular complex that assembles onto centromeric DNA and orchestrates the segregation of duplicated chromosomes. More than 60 components make up the budding yeast kinetochore, including inner kinetochore proteins that bind to
Bungo Akiyoshi +5 more
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PLoS Genetics, 2021 The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) prevents anaphase onset in response to chromosome attachment defects, and SAC silencing is essential for anaphase onset. Following anaphase onset, activated Cdc14 phosphatase dephosphorylates the substrates of cyclin-
Michael Bokros +3 more
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Visualizing kinetochore architecture [PDF]
Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2011 Kinetochores are large macromolecular assemblies that link chromosomes to spindle microtubules (MTs) during mitosis. Here we review recent advances in the study of core MT-binding kinetochore complexes using electron microcopy methods in vitro and nanometer-accuracy fluorescence microscopy in vivo.
Gregory, Alushin, Eva, Nogales
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Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2014 A critical requirement for mitosis is the distribution of genetic material to the two daughter cells. The central player in this process is the macromolecular kinetochore structure, which binds to both chromosomal DNA and spindle microtubule polymers to direct chromosome alignment and segregation. This review will discuss the key kinetochore activities
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Divergent polo box domains underpin the unique kinetoplastid kinetochore [PDF]
Open Biology, 2016 Kinetochores are macromolecular machines that drive eukaryotic chromosome segregation by interacting with centromeric DNA and spindle microtubules. While most eukaryotes possess conventional kinetochore proteins, evolutionarily distant kinetoplastid ...
Olga O. Nerusheva, Bungo Akiyoshi
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