Sequence of centromere separation: influence of pericentromeric heterochromatin (repetitive DNA) inMus |
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Authors: | B. K. Vig R. P. Zinkowski |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, University of Nevada at Reno, 89557-0015 Reno, NV, USA |
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Abstract: | A relationship between the sequence of centromere separation and quantity of pericentromeric constitutive heterochromatin was studied using bone marrow cells ofMus musculus molossinus and three cell lines, viz., SEWA-Rec 4, brain tumor and L-cells, ofM. m. domesticus origin. The timing of separation of a centromere into two daughter centromeres is related to the quantity of pericentromeric heterochromatin. In these genomes, having qualitatively uniform DNA in their heterochromatin fraction, the chromosomes with none or small quantities of heterochromatin separate first. These are followed by those chromosomes which have increasingly larger quantities of heterochromatin. It appears that one function of repetitive DNA (pericentromeric heterochromatin) is to regulate the timing of separation of centromeres. |
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