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Key and lock: How important proteins 'dock' to the centromere

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The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers has investigated how two crucial proteins — KNL2 and CENP-C — dock to the centromere — components which play a central role in this process.