Chardon, Florian (author), Japaridze, A. (author), Witt, Hannes (author), Velikovsky, Leonid (author), Chakraborty, Camellia (author), Wilhelm, Therese (author), Dumont, Marie (author), Yang, W.W.W. (author), Dekker, C. (author) Chromosome inheritance depends on centromeres, epigenetically specified regions of chromosomes. While conventional human centromeres are known to be built of long tandem DNA repeats, much of their architecture remains unknown. Using single-molecule techniques such as AFM, nanopores, and optical tweezers, we find that human centromeric DNA...
journal article 2022
