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The fission yeast bromodomain protein Bdf2 is required for the growth of cells with circular chromosomes.
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry - 24 Jan 2022
Yasuda Misaki, Habib Ahmed G K, Sugiura Kanako, Shamim Hossain Mohammad, Ueno Masaru
Abstract excerpt
Circular chromosomes have frequently been observed in tumors of mesenchymal origin. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, deletion of pot1+ results in rapid telomere loss, and the resulting survivors have circular chromosomes. Fission yeast has 2 bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) proteins, Bdf1 and Bdf2; both are required for maintaining acetylated histones. Here, we found that bdf2, but not bdf1,...
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