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Risa Kitagawa 1, Yohei Niikura 1 2, Argentina Becker 1 3, Peter J. Houghton 1, Katsumi Kitagawa 1 4 Highlights EWSR1 is required to maintain CENP-A at the centromere in interphase cells EWSR1 binds to CENP-A through the SYGQ2 region, important for phas …

SAVE-THE-DATE: The Gear Up Against Kids Cancer rides again on April 1st! Check out the updated routes, including a new 60-miler!

The San Antonio Pediatric Cancer Symposium (SAPCS), hosted by the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio and in conjunction with the Mays Cancer Center, will bring together some of the most respected childhood cancer rese …

Roxane Khoogar, Fuyang Li, Yidong Chen, Myron Ignatius, Elizabeth R. Lawlor, Katsumi Kitagawa, Tim H.-M. Huang, Doris A. Phelps & Peter J. Houghton Background The EWSR1/FLI1 gene fusion is the most common rearrangement leading to cell transformatio …

*not all summer program students pictured                     Greehey CCRI would like to welcome the 2021 Donald G McEwen, Memorial Summer Undergraduate Research Program students. Gaby Ruban – Dr. Chen …

Introduction Accurate chromosome segregation is fundamental for cell division. Errors in this process can lead to chromosome instability, leading to aneuploidy, which is correlated with cancer (Zhu et al., 2011; Santaguida and Amon, 2015). The centrome …

Yohei Niikura*1, Lei Fang*2, Risa Kitagawa*3, Peizhao Li1, Yao Xi1, Ju You1, Yan Guo2, Katsumi Kitagawa3 Summary CENP-A ubiquitylation is an important requirement for CENP-A deposition at the centromere, inherited through dimerization between cell divi …

Overview: Centromeres are essential for chromosome segregation during mitosis. The kinetochore is the protein complex associated with the centromere. Dysfunction in centromeres causes chromosome instability and can result in aneuploidy. The overall goa …

Summary CENP-A is a centromere-specific histone H3 variant that epigenetically determines centromere identity, but how CENP-A is deposited at the centromere remains obscure. We previously reported that CENP-A K124 ubiquitylation, mediated by the CUL4A- …

Yohei Niikura 1,2,* Risa Kitagawa 1 and Katsumi Kitagawa 1,* Abstract The centromere plays an essential role in accurate chromosome segregation, and the chromosomal location of the centromere is determined by the presence of a histone H3 variant, centr …