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Orc mutants arrest in metaphase with abnormally condensed chromosomes.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 May 2001
Pflumm M F, Botchan M R
Abstract excerpt
The origin recognition complex (ORC) is a six subunit complex required for eukaryotic DNA replication initiation and for silencing of the heterochromatic mating type loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our discovery of the Drosophila ORC complex concentrated in the centric heterochromatin of mitotic cells in the early embryo and its interactions with heterochromatin protein 1 (HP-1) lead us to speculate that ORC...
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