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Starting from scratch: de novo kinetochore assembly in vertebrates
Author(s) -
Bowers Sarion R,
Mellone Barbara G
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1038/emboj.2011.329
Subject(s) - biology , kinetochore , scratch , genetics , evolutionary biology , gene , programming language , chromosome , computer science
Recent studies in Cell and Nature shed light on how the kinetochore is recruited to centromeres during cell division, using elegant cell‐based and in vitro assays to recapitulate kinetochore formation at artificial centromeres.