Hotspots for Formation of Kinetochores (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Hotspots for Formation of Kinetochores

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Heterochromatin borders are 'hotspots' for the formation of new kinetochores outside the centromere: Antibody-staining of fixed chromosomes of Drosophila cells during cell division. The double green arrow indicates normal endogenous kinetochores, the white arrow indicates newly-formed ectopic kinetochores (green: centromere-specific histone; blue: DNA; red: euchromatin). Scale: 3 micrometres.

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P. Heun, MPI for Immunobiology and Epigenetics

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