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protein coding gene - cnp3 (SPBC1861.01c) - kinetochore scaffold CENP-C, Cnp3

Gene summary

Standard name
cnp3
Systematic ID
SPBC1861.01c
Product
kinetochore scaffold CENP-C, Cnp3
Organism
Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast)
Synonyms
SPBC56F2.13, mif2
UniProt ID
Q9USR9
ORFeome ID
37/37H08
Characterisation status
biological role published
Feature type
mRNA gene
Genomic location
chromosome II: 4126318..4128666 reverse strand

Annotation

GO biological process

GO:0051315 - attachment of mitotic spindle microtubules to kinetochore

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GO:0051382 - kinetochore assembly

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GO:0000070 - mitotic sister chromatid segregation

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GO:0051455 - spindle attachment to meiosis I kinetochore

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GO cellular component

GO:0000775 - chromosome, centromeric region

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GO:0000779 - condensed chromosome, centromeric region

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GO:0000776 - kinetochore

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GO:0005730 - nucleolus

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GO:0005634 - nucleus

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GO molecular function

GO:0019237 - centromeric DNA binding

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GO:0140483 - kinetochore adaptor activity

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Modification

MOD:00046 - O-phospho-L-serine

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MOD:00047 - O-phospho-L-threonine

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MOD:01149 - sumoylated lysine

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MOD:01148 - ubiquitinylated lysine

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Multi-locus phenotype

FYPO:0000141 - abnormal mitotic sister chromatid segregation

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FYPO:0000082 - decreased cell population growth at high temperature

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FYPO:0002061 - inviable vegetative cell population

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FYPO:0005633 - sister kinetochore dissociation in meiotic metaphase I, normal chromosome segregation in meiosis I, and sister chromatid non-disjunction in meiosis II

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Protein features

PBO:0111888 - AT hook protein

Qualitative gene expression

PomGeneEx:0000018 - protein level increased

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PomGeneEx:0000012 - RNA level decreased

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Quantitative gene expression

PBO:0011963 - RNA level

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Single locus phenotype

FYPO:0000209 - abnormal attachment of spindle microtubules to kinetochore during meiosis I

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FYPO:0003177 - abnormal meiotic homologous chromosome biorientation

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FYPO:0000141 - abnormal mitotic sister chromatid segregation

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FYPO:0001894 - abnormal sporulation resulting in formation of ascus with more or fewer than four spores

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FYPO:0001946 - abolished mitotic sister chromatid separation

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FYPO:0006799 - abolished nuclear MIS12/MIND complex binding

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FYPO:0005366 - abolished protein phosphorylation during mitosis

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FYPO:0000705 - abolished protein-protein interaction

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FYPO:0000080 - decreased cell population growth at low temperature

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FYPO:0001176 - decreased cell population growth on sucrose carbon source

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FYPO:0006800 - decreased centromere clustering at nuclear periphery during mitotic interphase

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FYPO:0000470 - decreased mating type switching

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FYPO:0004212 - decreased protein localization to kinetochore during meiosis I

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FYPO:0005215 - decreased protein localization to kinetochore during mitotic M phase

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FYPO:0002902 - decreased protein localization to kinetochore during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0001645 - decreased protein-protein interaction

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FYPO:0002649 - elongated kinetochore during mitosis

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FYPO:0002638 - increased activation of mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint

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FYPO:0005261 - increased cell population growth on galactose carbon source

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FYPO:0009052 - increased cell population growth on glutamate nitrogen source

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FYPO:0004167 - increased cell population growth on glycerol carbon source

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FYPO:0009074 - increased cell population growth on serine nitrogen source

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FYPO:0001327 - increased protein level during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0004557 - increased vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0001489 - inviable vegetative cell

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FYPO:0000228 - lagging mitotic chromosomes

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FYPO:0006518 - loss of viability in G0

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FYPO:0000245 - loss of viability in stationary phase

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FYPO:0000324 - mitotic metaphase/anaphase transition delay

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FYPO:0000674 - normal cell population growth at high temperature

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FYPO:0007553 - normal G1 to G0 transition

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FYPO:0000964 - normal growth on thiabendazole

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FYPO:0001513 - normal mitotic sister chromatid segregation

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FYPO:0006798 - normal nuclear MIS12/MIND complex binding

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FYPO:0007234 - normal protein localization to centromere central core

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FYPO:0002901 - normal protein localization to kinetochore during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000067 - resistance to brefeldin A

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FYPO:0009038 - resistance to egtazic acid

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FYPO:0009067 - sensitive to amorolfine

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FYPO:0000095 - sensitive to bleomycin

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FYPO:0000097 - sensitive to caffeine during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0009080 - sensitive to calcofluor and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000104 - sensitive to cycloheximide

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FYPO:0000842 - sensitive to ethanol during vegetative growth

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FYPO:0000785 - sensitive to formamide

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FYPO:0000088 - sensitive to hydroxyurea

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FYPO:0001719 - sensitive to lithium

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FYPO:0009086 - sensitive to lithium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0009088 - sensitive to magnesium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000089 - sensitive to methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0001214 - sensitive to potassium chloride

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FYPO:0009082 - sensitive to potassium chloride and methyl methanesulfonate

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FYPO:0007924 - sensitive to potassium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000111 - sensitive to rapamycin

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FYPO:0005889 - sensitive to sodium chloride

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FYPO:0009090 - sensitive to sodium chloride and sodium dodecyl sulfate

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FYPO:0000091 - sensitive to thiabendazole

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FYPO:0002701 - sensitive to torin1

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FYPO:0009064 - sensitive to X-rays and rapamycin during vegetative growth.

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FYPO:0005634 - sister kinetochore dissociation in meiotic metaphase I with equational sister chromatid segregation in meiosis I

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FYPO:0001234 - slow vegetative cell population growth

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FYPO:0000678 - unequal homologous chromosome segregation

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FYPO:0003241 - unequal mitotic sister chromatid segregation

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FYPO:0002476 - viable vacuolated vegetative cell, abnormal cell shape, normal cell size

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FYPO:0001491 - viable vegetative cell

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FYPO:0002060 - viable vegetative cell population

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Subunit composition

PBO:0015212 - homomeric(2)

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Taxonomic conservation

PBO:0011065 - conserved in eukaryotes

PBO:0011071 - conserved in eukaryotes only

PBO:0011064 - conserved in fungi

PBO:0011069 - conserved in metazoa

PBO:0011070 - conserved in vertebrates

PBO:0006222 - predominantly single copy (one to one)

Protein features

IDNameInterPro nameDB name
PF11699CENP-C_CMif2/CENP-C_cupinPFAM
cd06993cupin_CENP-C_CCDD
G3DSA:2.60.120.10:FF:000033FUNFAM
SSF51182RmlC-like cupinsRmlC_Cupin_sfSUPERFAMILY
G3DSA:2.60.120.10Jelly RollsRmlC-like_jellyrollGENE3D
PTHR16684CENTROMERE PROTEIN CCENP-C/Mif2/cnp3PANTHER
mobidb-lite-Disorderdisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Disorder
mobidb-lite-Low-complexitydisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Low-complexity
mobidb-lite-Polardisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Polar
mobidb-lite-Polyampholytedisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Polyampholyte
mobidb-lite-Positive-Polyelectrolytedisorder_predictionMOBIDB-Positive-Polyelectrolyte

Orthologs

References / Literature

PMID:28977643 - Regulation of mitotic recombination between DNA repeats in centromeres.
Zafar F et al. Nucleic Acids Res 2017 Nov 02;45(19):11222-11235
PMID:34849791 - Perturbation of kinetochore function using GFP-binding protein in fission yeast.
Deng DJ et al. G3 (Bethesda) 2021 Oct 19;11(11)
PMID:37787768 - Broad functional profiling of fission yeast proteins using phenomics and machine learning.
Rodríguez-López M et al. Elife 2023 Oct 03;12
PMID:25720772 - Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals pathways for coordination of cell growth and division by the conserved fission yeast kinase pom1.
Kettenbach AN et al. Mol Cell Proteomics 2015 May;14(5):1275-87
PMID:40015273 - A comprehensive Schizosaccharomyces pombe atlas of physical transcription factor interactions with proteins and chromatin.
Skribbe M et al. Mol Cell 2025 Feb 19;
PMID:29180432 - Phosphorylation of CENP-C by Aurora B facilitates kinetochore attachment error correction in mitosis.
Zhou X et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017 Dec 12;114(50):E10667-E10676
PMID:23028377 - Factors that promote H3 chromatin integrity during transcription prevent promiscuous deposition of CENP-A(Cnp1) in fission yeast.
Choi ES et al. PLoS Genet 2012 Sep;8(9):e1002985
PMID:23267073 - Cell cycle-dependent deposition of CENP-A requires the Dos1/2-Cdc20 complex.
Gonzalez M et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 Jan 08;110(2):606-11
PMID:33313903 - Ribosome profiling reveals ribosome stalling on tryptophan codons and ribosome queuing upon oxidative stress in fission yeast.
Rubio A et al. Nucleic Acids Res 2021 Jan 11;49(1):383-399
PMID:15791413 - Comparison of Dam tagging and chromatin immunoprecipitation as tools for the identification of the binding sites for S. pombe CENP-C.
Holland S et al. Chromosome Res 2005;13(1):73-83
PMID:33711009 - Structure-function analysis of fission yeast cleavage and polyadenylation factor (CPF) subunit Ppn1 and its interactions with Dis2 and Swd22.
Benjamin B et al. PLoS Genet 2021 Mar;17(3):e1009452
PMID:19758558 - CENP-C functions as a scaffold for effectors with essential kinetochore functions in mitosis and meiosis.
Tanaka K et al. Dev Cell 2009 Sep;17(3):334-43
PMID:26537787 - Targeting of SUMO substrates to a Cdc48-Ufd1-Npl4 segregase and STUbL pathway in fission yeast.
Køhler JB et al. Nat Commun 2015 Nov 05;6:8827
PMID:28904333 - The Ino80 complex mediates epigenetic centromere propagation via active removal of histone H3.
Choi ES et al. Nat Commun 2017 Sep 13;8(1):529
PMID:16325576 - The kinetochore protein Moa1 enables cohesion-mediated monopolar attachment at meiosis I.
Yokobayashi S et al. Cell 2005 Dec 02;123(5):803-17
PMID:23101633 - Quantitative analysis of fission yeast transcriptomes and proteomes in proliferating and quiescent cells.
Marguerat S et al. Cell 2012 Oct 26;151(3):671-83
PMID:23936074 - Telomeric repeats facilitate CENP-A(Cnp1) incorporation via telomere binding proteins.
Castillo AG et al. PLoS One 2013;8(7):e69673
PMID:21511999 - Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
Rhind N et al. Science 2011 May 20;332(6032):930-6
PMID:33260998 - High-Throughput Flow Cytometry Combined with Genetic Analysis Brings New Insights into the Understanding of Chromatin Regulation of Cellular Quiescence.
Zahedi Y et al. Int J Mol Sci 2020 Nov 27;21(23)
PMID:34250083 - Barcode sequencing and a high-throughput assay for chronological lifespan uncover ageing-associated genes in fission yeast.
Romila CA et al. Microb Cell 2021 Jul 05;8(7):146-160
PMID:24327658 - Casein kinase 1 regulates sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) to control sterol homeostasis.
Brookheart RT et al. J Biol Chem 2014 Jan 31;289(5):2725-35
PMID:30726745 - Fission Yeast NDR/LATS Kinase Orb6 Regulates Exocytosis via Phosphorylation of the Exocyst Complex.
Tay YD et al. Cell Rep 2019 Feb 05;26(6):1654-1667.e7
PMID:20723757 - The monopolin complex crosslinks kinetochore components to regulate chromosome-microtubule attachments.
Corbett KD et al. Cell 2010 Aug 20;142(4):556-67
PMID:33823663 - A TOR (target of rapamycin) and nutritional phosphoproteome of fission yeast reveals novel targets in networks conserved in humans.
Halova L et al. Open Biol 2021 Apr;11(4):200405
PMID:31366733 - Structures of CENP-C cupin domains at regional centromeres reveal unique patterns of dimerization and recruitment functions for the inner pocket.
Chik JK et al. J Biol Chem 2019 Sep 20;294(38):14119-14134
PMID:38133430 - Genetic suppressor screen identifies Tgp1 (glycerophosphocholine transporter), Kcs1 (IP 6 kinase), and Plc1 (phospholipase C) as determinants of inositol pyrophosphate toxicosis in fission yeast.
Bednor L et al. mBio 2023 Dec 22;:e0306223
GO_REF:0000033 - Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
PMID:29852001 - New insights into donor directionality of mating-type switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Maki T et al. PLoS Genet 2018 May;14(5):e1007424
PMID:16823372 - ORFeome cloning and global analysis of protein localization in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Matsuyama A et al. Nat Biotechnol 2006 Jul;24(7):841-7
PMID:21633354 - Condensin association with histone H2A shapes mitotic chromosomes.
Tada K et al. Nature 2011 Jun 01;474(7352):477-83
PMID:28974540 - The fission yeast nucleoporin Alm1 is required for proteasomal degradation of kinetochore components.
Salas-Pino S et al. J Cell Biol 2017 Nov 06;216(11):3591-3608
PMID:36537249 - The fission yeast kinetochore complex Mhf1-Mhf2 regulates the spindle assembly checkpoint and faithful chromosome segregation.
Jian Y et al. J Cell Sci 2023 Jan 15;136(2)
PMID:29925533 - Fission Yeast CENP-C (Cnp3) Plays a Role in Restricting the Site of CENP-A Accumulation.
Suma M et al. G3 (Bethesda) 2018 Jul 31;8(8):2723-2733
PMID:39367033 - Quantitative proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling of meiotic divisions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Sivakova B et al. Sci Rep 2024 Oct 04;14(1):23105
PMID:28497540 - Meikin-associated polo-like kinase specifies Bub1 distribution in meiosis I.
Miyazaki S et al. Genes Cells 2017 Jun;22(6):552-567
PMID:15930132 - Spindle checkpoint signaling requires the mis6 kinetochore subcomplex, which interacts with mad2 and mitotic spindles.
Saitoh S et al. Mol Biol Cell 2005 Aug;16(8):3666-77
PMID:36200823 - The chromatin remodeler RSC prevents ectopic CENP-A propagation into pericentromeric heterochromatin at the chromatin boundary.
Tsunemine S et al. Nucleic Acids Res 2022 Oct 28;50(19):10914-10928
PMID:37970674 - SUMOylation regulates Lem2 function in centromere clustering and silencing.
Strachan J et al. J Cell Sci 2023 Dec 01;136(23)
PMID:23697806 - A genome-wide resource of cell cycle and cell shape genes of fission yeast.
Hayles J et al. Open Biol 2013 May 22;3(5):130053
PMID:17035632 - Reconstruction of the kinetochore during meiosis in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Hayashi A et al. Mol Biol Cell 2006 Dec;17(12):5173-84
PMID:17627824 - The kinetochore proteins Pcs1 and Mde4 and heterochromatin are required to prevent merotelic orientation.
Gregan J et al. Curr Biol 2007 Jul 17;17(14):1190-200
PMID:25619765 - The CENP-A N-tail confers epigenetic stability to centromeres via the CENP-T branch of the CCAN in fission yeast.
Folco HD et al. Curr Biol 2015 Feb 02;25(3):348-356
PMID:38084929 - The cysteine-rich domain in CENP-A chaperone Scm3HJURP ensures centromere targeting and kinetochore integrity.
Folco HD et al. Nucleic Acids Res 2023 Dec 12;
PMID:20473289 - Analysis of a genome-wide set of gene deletions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Kim DU et al. Nat Biotechnol 2010 Jun;28(6):617-623
PMID:26275423 - Inner Kinetochore Protein Interactions with Regional Centromeres of Fission Yeast.
Thakur J et al. Genetics 2015 Oct;201(2):543-61