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CHROMOSOMA
Volume 109, Issue 3, Pages 190-196Publisher
SPRINGER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050427
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Dicentric chromosomes are rarely found, because they interfere with normal cell division causing chromosome instability. By in situ hybridization of region-specific heterochromatic yeast artificial chromosomes we have found that the artificially generated C(I)A chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster has two potential centromeres: one carries all the sequences of the centromere of the Y chromosome and the other carries only a part of the Y centromeric region that is rich in telomere-related sequences. Immunostaining with anti-Bub1 (a kinetochore-specific marker) shows that, in spite of the differences in sequence, both centromeres can be active although as a rule only one at a time. In a small fraction of the chromosomes centromere inactive ion is incomplete, giving rise to true dicentric chromosomes. The centromere inactivation is clonally inherited, providing a new example of epigenetic chromosome imprinting and the possibility of genetically dissecting this process. The involvement of telomere-related sequences in centromere function is discussed.
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