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Shearing of the CENP-A dimerization interface mediates plasticity in the octameric centromeric nucleosome
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We thank A. Straight (Stanford University) and J. Ottesen (Ohio State University) for the gift of recombinant human CENP-A and H3 octamers; R. Allshire (University of Edinburgh) for protocols; S. Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and J. Gerton (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) for the gift of recombinant yeast CSE4 octamers; C. Wu (US National Institutes of Health and Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) for the gift of the Widom 601 plasmid; R. Gill and M. Bui for technical assistance; T. Misteli, G. Hager and S. Grewal for critical comments and K. Takeyasu for discussions on the AFM analysis presented in ref. 9.
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Walkiewicz, M., Dimitriadis, E. & Dalal, Y. CENP-A octamers do not confer a reduction in nucleosome height by AFM. Nat Struct Mol Biol 21, 2–3 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2742
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