Centromeric barrier disruption leads to mitotic defects in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 633-642

  Gaither, Terilyn L ^a   Merrett, Stephanie L ^a,b   Pun, Matthew J ^a   Scott, Kristin C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrier; CENP A; Centromere; Chromatin; Genome instability

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DISRUPTION; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERIC BARRIER DISRUPTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MINICHROMOSOME; MITOTIC DEFECT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REPORTER GENE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 84898909051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.010397     Document Type: Article

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