Centromeric heterochromatin: The primordial segregation machine

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 457-484

  Bloom, Kerry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

centromere; chromosome segregation; DNA mechanics; heterochromatin; molecular springs

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN PROTEIN; COHESIN; CONDENSIN; DNA; POLYMER; PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERIC HETEROCHROMATIN; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; EPIGENETICS; EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MACHINE; NEOCENTROMERE; NONHUMAN; PERICENTROMERE; PRECAMBRIAN; SPRING; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84913586568     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120213-092033     Document Type: Article

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