Nucleosome Mapping in S. pombe Centromeres

ABSTRACT: A key element for defining the centromere identity is the incorporation of a specific histone H3, CENP-A, known as Cnp1p in S. pombe. Previous studies have suggested that functional S. pombe centromeres lack nucleosome arrays and may involve chromatin remodeling as a key step of kinetochore assembly. We used tiling microarrays to show that nucleosomes are in fact positioned in regular intervals in the core of centromere 2, providing the first high resolution map of regional centromere chromatin. Nucleosome locations are not disrupted by mutations in kinetochore proteins cnp1, mis18, mis12, nuf2, mal2, overexpression of Cnp1p, or deletion of ams2. Bioinformatic analysis of the centromere sequence indicates certain enriched motifs in linker regions between nucleosomes and reveals a sequen

ORGANISM(S): Schizosaccharomyces pombe

SUBMITTER: Xingkun Liu 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-10742 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress