CENP-T is a family of vertebral kinetochore proteins that associates directly with CENP-W. The N-terminus of CENP-T proteins interacts directly with the Ndc80 complex in the outer kinetochore. Importantly, the CENP-T-W complex does not directly asso ...
CENP-T is a family of vertebral kinetochore proteins that associates directly with CENP-W. The N-terminus of CENP-T proteins interacts directly with the Ndc80 complex in the outer kinetochore. Importantly, the CENP-T-W complex does not directly associate with CENP-A, but with histone H3 in the centromere region. CENP-T and -W form a hetero-tetramer with CENP-S and -X and bind to a ~100 bp region of nucleosome-free DNA forming a nucleosome-like structure. The DNA-CENP-T-W-S-X complex is likely to be associated with histone H3-containing nucleosomes rather than with CENP-nucleosomes. This domain is the C-terminal histone fold domain of CENP-T, which associates with chromatin [2-3].
This domain is found in a variety of polyA polymerases as well as the E. coli molybdate metabolism regulator Swiss:P33345 and other proteins of unknown function. I have called this domain WGR after the most conserved central motif of the domain. The ...
This domain is found in a variety of polyA polymerases as well as the E. coli molybdate metabolism regulator Swiss:P33345 and other proteins of unknown function. I have called this domain WGR after the most conserved central motif of the domain. The domain is found in isolation in proteins such as Swiss:Q9JN21 and is between 70 and 80 residues in length. I propose that this may be a nucleic acid binding domain.
