At the heart of the kinetochore is a specialized nucleosome that contains centromere protein (CENP)-A, a histone H3 homologue. Several inner kinetochore components (cyan and purple ovals) associate ...

Researchers at Osaka University say they have clarified the structure of the centromeric region in chicken cells using cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). The team published its study in “The ...

Osaka, Japan – The genetic material inside cells is organized into structures called chromosomes. The centromere is essential for the correct division of the chromosomes via interaction with spindle ...

The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers has investigated how two crucial proteins -- KNL2 ...

Adele L. Marston is in the Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK. Centromeres vary widely in size and DNA sequence, ranging from ...

Human cell division involves hundreds of proteins at its core. Knowing the 3D structure of these proteins is pivotal to understand how our genetic material is duplicated and passed through generations ...

The genetic material inside cells is organized into structures called chromosomes. The centromere is essential for the correct division of the chromosomes via interaction with spindle microtubules ...

This release is available in German. Centromeres are specialised regions of the genome, which can be identified under the microscope as the primary constriction in X-shaped chromosomes. The cell ...

As a cell divides, its DNA -the genetic material- is duplicated and condensed into structures called chromosomes, which are carefully organized and distributed so that each daughter cell acquires a ...

In human cells, lengthy strands of DNA have to be carefully organized and compacted so they'll fit into the nucleus; our genome is arranged into chromosomes that have to be duplicated each time a cell ...