"Kinetochores" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Large multiprotein complexes that bind the centromeres of the chromosomes to the microtubules of the mitotic spindle during metaphase in the cell cycle.
| Descriptor ID |
D018386
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.160.165.500 G05.360.160.165.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Kinetochores" by people in Profiles.
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Aurora kinase B dependent phosphorylation of 53BP1 is required for resolving merotelic kinetochore-microtubule attachment errors during mitosis. Oncotarget. 2017 Jul 25; 8(30):48671-48687.
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PKM2 regulates chromosome segregation and mitosis progression of tumor cells. Mol Cell. 2014 Jan 09; 53(1):75-87.
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Plasticity and epigenetic inheritance of centromere-specific histone H3 (CENP-A)-containing nucleosome positioning in the fission yeast. J Biol Chem. 2013 Jun 28; 288(26):19184-96.
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Esperanto for histones: CENP-A, not CenH3, is the centromeric histone H3 variant. Chromosome Res. 2013 Apr; 21(2):101-6.
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Role of the Mad2 dimerization interface in the spindle assembly checkpoint independent of kinetochores. Curr Biol. 2012 Oct 23; 22(20):1900-8.
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Aurora B is regulated by acetylation/deacetylation during mitosis in prostate cancer cells. FASEB J. 2012 Oct; 26(10):4057-67.
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Control of MCAK degradation and removal from centromeres. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2012 May; 69(5):303-11.
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Chromatin signaling to kinetochores: transregulation of Dam1 methylation by histone H2B ubiquitination. Cell. 2011 Sep 02; 146(5):709-19.
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Aneuploidy and tumorigenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2011 Aug; 22(6):595-601.
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Sister chromatid tension and the spindle assembly checkpoint. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2009 Dec; 21(6):785-95.