RRC ID 11346
著者 Joglekar AP, Bouck D, Finley K, Liu X, Wan Y, Berman J, He X, Salmon ED, Bloom KS.
タイトル Molecular architecture of the kinetochore-microtubule attachment site is conserved between point and regional centromeres.
ジャーナル J Cell Biol
Abstract Point and regional centromeres specify a unique site on each chromosome for kinetochore assembly. The point centromere in budding yeast is a unique 150-bp DNA sequence, which supports a kinetochore with only one microtubule attachment. In contrast, regional centromeres are complex in architecture, can be up to 5 Mb in length, and typically support many kinetochore-microtubule attachments. We used quantitative fluorescence microscopy to count the number of core structural kinetochore protein complexes at the regional centromeres in fission yeast and Candida albicans. We find that the number of CENP-A nucleosomes at these centromeres reflects the number of kinetochore-microtubule attachments instead of their length. The numbers of kinetochore protein complexes per microtubule attachment are nearly identical to the numbers in a budding yeast kinetochore. These findings reveal that kinetochores with multiple microtubule attachments are mainly built by repeating a conserved structural subunit that is equivalent to a single microtubule attachment site.
巻・号 181(4)
ページ 587-94
公開日 2008-5-19
DOI 10.1083/jcb.200803027
PII jcb.200803027
PMID 18474626
PMC PMC2386099
MeSH Autoantigens / metabolism Candida albicans / cytology* Centromere Protein A Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / metabolism DNA, Fungal / metabolism Fluorescence G2 Phase Kinetochores / metabolism* Metaphase Microtubules / metabolism* Saccharomyces cerevisiae / cytology Schizosaccharomyces / cytology* Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins
IF 8.811
引用数 116
WOS 分野 CELL BIOLOGY
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