Lock and key: Scientists clarify how important proteins 'dock' to centromere

The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute IPK has investigated how two crucial proteins—KNL2 and CENP-C—dock to the centromere—components which play a central role in this process. The results were published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.