Actively dividing cells do so at a risk — with each division, chromosome ends tend to shorten. Pairing proteins that promote cell division with a chromosome-end repair factor is a smart way to solve this problem.
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Millar, S. The not-so-odd couple. Nature 460, 44–45 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460044a
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