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Nikolaus A. Watson

European Molecular Biology LaboratoryORCID 0000-0001-6459-722XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1

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Cell BiologybioRxivPreprintApr 5, 2026

Selective autophagy of whole micronuclei suppresses chromosomal instability

Nikolaus A. Watson, Mattia Melli, Marco Raffaele Cosenza…·Francesco Cecconi

The paper shows that autophagy selectively degrades micronuclei with nuclear envelope defects, preventing chromosomal instability by eliminating missegregated chromosomal material.

DOI 10.64898/2026.04.03.716211

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