New research reveals that centromeres, which are responsible for proper cell division, can rapidly reorganize over short time ...

Scientists have solved a decade-long question about the mechanism that preserves the centromere, the hub that ensures DNA ...

New research reveals that centromeres, which are responsible for proper cell division, can rapidly reorganize over short time ...

With a few exceptions, eukaryotic chromosomes have a single centromere that ensures their accurate segregation during mitosis. Chromosomes that lack centromeres segregate randomly during mitosis ...

At the heart of the kinetochore is a specialized nucleosome that contains centromere protein (CENP)-A, a histone H3 homologue. Several inner kinetochore components (cyan and purple ovals ...

Each chromosome has two arms, named p and q. These two arms are joined at a structure called the centromere. A translocation chromosome mutation can be of two types — reciprocal and Robertsonian.