Plasticity in centromere organization and kinetochore composition: Lessons from diversity

Bridgin connects the outer kinetochore to centromeric chromatin

(2021) Shreyas Sridhar et al.   Nature Communications

Structural characterization of KKT4, an unconventional microtubule-binding kinetochore protein

(2021) Patryk Ludzia et al.   STRUCTURE

Repurposing of synaptonemal complex proteins for kinetochores in Kinetoplastida

(2021) Eelco C. Tromer et al.   Open Biology

Trypanosome KKIP1 Dynamically Links the Inner Kinetochore to a Kinetoplastid Outer Kinetochore Complex

(2021) Lorenzo Brusini et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

A systematic analysis of Trypanosoma brucei chromatin factors identifies novel protein interaction networks associated with sites of transcription initiation and termination

(2021) Desislava P Staneva et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Kinetoplastid kinetochore proteins KKT2 and KKT3 have unique centromere localization domains

(2021) Gabriele Marcianò et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

A simple model explains the cell cycle-dependent assembly of centromeric nucleosomes in holocentric species

(2021) Amanda Souza Câmara et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Variation and Evolution of Human Centromeres: A Field Guide and Perspective

(2021) Karen H. Miga et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Diverse mechanisms of centromere specification

(2021) Barbara G. Mellone et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomic analysis finds no evidence of canonical eukaryotic DNA processing complexes in a free-living protist

(2021) Dayana E. Salas-Leiva et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of metabolic capabilities and molecular features of diplonemids, kinetoplastids, and euglenids

(2020) Anzhelika Butenko et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

CenH3-Independent Kinetochore Assembly in Lepidoptera Requires CCAN, Including CENP-T

(2020) Nuria Cortes-Silva et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

What makes a centromere?

(2020) Paul B. Talbert et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Mitotic Spindle Attachment to the Holocentric Chromosomes of Cuscuta europaea Does Not Correlate With the Distribution of CENH3 Chromatin

(2020) Ludmila Oliveira et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Diversity of Plant Centromere Architecture

(2020) Veit Schubert et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Implications of the Evolutionary Trajectory of Centromeres in the Fungal Kingdom

(2020) Krishnendu Guin et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

The centromere comes into focus: from CENP-A nucleosomes to kinetochore connections with the spindle

(2020) Kathryn Kixmoeller et al.   Open Biology

Targeting the trypanosome kinetochore with CLK1 protein kinase inhibitors

(2020) Manuel Saldivia et al.   Nature Microbiology

C-Terminal Motifs of the MTW1 Complex Cooperatively Stabilize Outer Kinetochore Assembly in Budding Yeast

(2020) Medini Ghodgaonkar-Steger et al.   Cell Reports

Formation of the CenH3-Deficient Holocentromere in Lepidoptera Avoids Active Chromatin

(2020) Aruni P. Senaratne et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mosaic origin of the eukaryotic kinetochore

(2019) Eelco C. Tromer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Progress towards the Tree of Eukaryotes

(2019) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early Diverging Fungus Mucor circinelloides Lacks Centromeric Histone CENP-A and Displays a Mosaic of Point and Regional Centromeres

(2019) María Isabel Navarro-Mendoza et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Identification of four unconventional kinetoplastid kinetochore proteins KKT22–25 in Trypanosoma brucei

(2019) Olga O. Nerusheva et al.   Open Biology

Organising the cell cycle in the absence of transcriptional control: Dynamic phosphorylation co-ordinates the Trypanosoma brucei cell cycle post-transcriptionally

(2019) Corinna Benz et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The kinetoplastid kinetochore protein KKT4 is an unconventional microtubule tip–coupling protein

(2018) Aida Llauró et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The unconventional kinetoplastid kinetochore: from discovery toward functional understanding

(2016) Bungo Akiyoshi   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Evolution of long centromeres in fire ants

(2016) Yu-Ching Huang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Trypanosome outer kinetochore proteins suggest conservation of chromosome segregation machinery across eukaryotes

(2016) Simon D’Archivio et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

biGBac enables rapid gene assembly for the expression of large multisubunit protein complexes

(2016) Florian Weissmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mitosis

(2016) J. Richard McIntosh   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Divergent polo box domains underpin the unique kinetoplastid kinetochore

(2016) Olga O. Nerusheva et al.   Open Biology

Epigenetic Histone Marks of Extended Meta-Polycentric Centromeres of Lathyrus and Pisum Chromosomes

(2016) Pavel Neumann et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Exploring the environmental diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates in the high-throughput DNA sequencing era

(2015) Claudia Masini d’Avila-Levy et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Centromeres Off the Hook: Massive Changes in Centromere Size and Structure Following Duplication ofCenH3Gene inFabeaeSpecies

(2015) Pavel Neumann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Centromeric Heterochromatin: The Primordial Segregation Machine

(2014) Kerry S. Bloom   Annual Review of Genetics

Discovery of Unconventional Kinetochores in Kinetoplastids

(2014) Bungo Akiyoshi et al.   CELL

Recurrent loss of CenH3 is associated with independent transitions to holocentricity in insects

(2014) Ines A Drinnenberg et al.   eLife

Holocentromeres are dispersed point centromeres localized at transcription factor hotspots

(2014) Florian A Steiner et al.   eLife

Dicentric chromosomes: unique models to study centromere function and inactivation

(2012) Kaitlin M. Stimpson et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Holocentric chromosomes: convergent evolution, meiotic adaptations, and genomic analysis

(2012) Daniël P. Melters et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

An inverse relationship to germline transcription defines centromeric chromatin in C. elegans

(2012) Reto Gassmann et al.   NATURE

Holocentric Chromosomes of Luzula elegans Are Characterized by a Longitudinal Centromere Groove, Chromosome Bending, and a Terminal Nucleolus Organizer Region

(2011) S. Heckmann et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

TriTrypDB: a functional genomic resource for the Trypanosomatidae

(2009) Martin Aslett et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH