Lock and key: Scientists clarify how important proteins 'dock' to centromere

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Jan 7, 2025, 2:03 pm103 pts
The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute IPK has investigated how two crucial proteins—KNL2 and CENP-C—dock to the centromere—components which play a central role in…

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