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Centromeres: proteins, protein complexes, and repeated domains at centromeres of simple eukaryotes
1Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. clarke@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
|June 4, 1998
Abstract:
Similarities exist among components of simple and complex centromeres that may not have been expected on the basis of wide variation in size and sequence organization of centromeric DNAs among eukaryotes. Support is growing in systems from fungi to Drosophila for a model of centromere assembly and activation that is dependent on a particular underlying chromatin structure but not necessarily on a specific DNA sequence.