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ReviewChromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology2025

Centromeres drive and take a break.

Paul B Talbert, Steven Henikoff

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Review in Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Emergence of satellite DNAs suggests centromeric repositioning as a driver of karyotypic variation of the freshwater darter characines (Apareiodon affinis).Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2026
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  5. 40 years of CENP-A: the foundation of a new era of centromere biology.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2025
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  7. Satellite DNA Genomics: The Ongoing Story.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Paul B TalbertHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2563-3878
Steven HenikoffHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA. steveh@fredhutch.org.ORCID 0000-0002-7621-8685

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The identification of CENPA, CENPB, and CENPC by Earnshaw and Rothfield 40 years ago has revealed the remarkable diversity and complexity of centromeres and confirmed most seed plants and animals have centromeres comprised of complex satellite arrays. The rapid evolution of centromeres and positive selection on CENPA and CENPC led to the centromere drive model, in which competition between tandem satellite arrays of differing size and centromere strength for inclusion in the egg of animals or megaspore of seed plants during female meiosis drives rapid evolution of centromeres and kinetochore proteins. Here we review recent work showing that non-B-form DNA structures in satellite centromeres make them sites of frequent replication fork stalling, and that repair of collapsed forks by break-induced replication rather than unequal sister chromatid exchange is likely the primary mode of satellite expansion and contraction, providing the variation in satellite copy number that is the raw material of centromere drive. Centromere breaks at replication, rather than errors at mitosis, can account for most centromere misdivisions that underlie aneuploidies in cancer.

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CentromereAnimalsChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNA ReplicationDNA, SatelliteEvolution, MolecularHumansKinetochoresMeiosisChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNA, SatelliteBreak-induced replicationCancerCentromere driveKinetochoreSatellite DNASpeciation

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PMID40759764
PMCPMC12321929

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