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Comment
. 2013 Sep;29(9):500-2.
doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2013.06.008. Epub 2013 Aug 2.

CENP-A and the CENP nomenclature: response to Talbert and Henikoff

William C Earnshaw, Don W Cleveland
Comment

CENP-A and the CENP nomenclature: response to Talbert and Henikoff

William C Earnshaw et al. Trends Genet. 2013 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: CENP-A; centromere; kinetochore.

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  • Esperanto for histones: CENP-A, not CenH3, is the centromeric histone H3 variant.
    Earnshaw WC, Allshire RC, Black BE, Bloom K, Brinkley BR, Brown W, Cheeseman IM, Choo KH, Copenhaver GP, Deluca JG, Desai A, Diekmann S, Erhardt S, Fitzgerald-Hayes M, Foltz D, Fukagawa T, Gassmann R, Gerlich DW, Glover DM, Gorbsky GJ, Harrison SC, Heun P, Hirota T, Jansen LE, Karpen G, Kops GJ, Lampson MA, Lens SM, Losada A, Luger K, Maiato H, Maddox PS, Margolis RL, Masumoto H, McAinsh AD, Mellone BG, Meraldi P, Musacchio A, Oegema K, O'Neill RJ, Salmon ED, Scott KC, Straight AF, Stukenberg PT, Sullivan BA, Sullivan KF, Sunkel CE, Swedlow JR, Walczak CE, Warburton PE, Westermann S, Willard HF, Wordeman L, Yanagida M, Yen TJ, Yoda K, Cleveland DW. Earnshaw WC, et al. Chromosome Res. 2013 Apr;21(2):101-6. doi: 10.1007/s10577-013-9347-y. Epub 2013 Apr 12. Chromosome Res. 2013. PMID: 23580138 Free PMC article.
  • Phylogeny as the basis for naming histones.
    Talbert PB, Henikoff S. Talbert PB, et al. Trends Genet. 2013 Sep;29(9):499-500. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2013.06.009. Epub 2013 Jul 19. Trends Genet. 2013. PMID: 23876620 No abstract available.

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