How Chromosomes Align Perfectly in a Dividing Cell
ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2012) — To solve a mystery, sometimes a great detective need only study the clues in front of him. Like Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Tomomi Kiyomitsu used his keen powers of observation to solve a puzzle that had mystified researchers for years: in a cell undergoing mitotic cell division, what internal signals cause its chromosomes to align on a center axis?
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The above story is reprinted from materials provided byWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, viaNewswise. The original article was written by Nicole Giese Rura.Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- Tomomi Kiyomitsu, Iain M. Cheeseman. Chromosome- and spindle-pole-derived signals generate an intrinsic code for spindle position and orientation. Nature Cell Biology, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/ncb2440
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