Unequal contribution of two paralogous centromeric histones to function the cowpea centromere
Takayoshi Ishii, Martina Juranić, Shamoni Maheshwari, Fernanda de Oliveira Bustamante, Maximilian Vogt, Rigel Salinas-Gamboa, Steven Dreißig, Nial Rau Gursanscky, Tracy How, Dmitri Demidov, Jörg Fuchs, Veit Schubert, Andrew Spriggs, Jean‐Philippe Vielle‐Calzada, Luca Comai, , Andreas Houben
The paper investigates the functional roles of two paralogous CENH3 variants in cowpea centromeres, finding that CENH3.1 is essential for plant development and reproduction while CENH3.2 shows reduced functionality.
Communications Biology · Dec 15, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics