CENP-A confers a reduction in height on octameric nucleosomes

Matthew D.D. Miell; Helena M. Barysz; Juri Rappsilber; Robin C. Allshire; Colin J. Fuller; Aaron F. Straight; Annika Guse; Andrew Downes; Tom Owen-Hughes

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CENP-A confers a reduction in height on octameric nucleosomes

Matthew D.D. Miell, Helena M. Barysz, Juri Rappsilber, Robin C. Allshire, Colin J. Fuller, Aaron F. Straight, Annika Guse, Andrew Downes, Tom Owen-Hughes

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Nucleosomes with histone H3 replaced by CENP-A direct kinetochore assembly. CENP-A nucleosomes from human and Drosophila have been reported to have reduced heights as compared to canonical octameric H3 nucleosomes, thus suggesting a unique tetrameric hemisomal composition. We demonstrate that octameric CENP-A nucleosomes assembled in vitro exhibit reduced heights, indicating that they are physically distinct from H3 nucleosomes and negating the need to invoke the presence of hemisomes.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Early online date	5 May 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2574
Publication status	Published - 2013

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