Gene Review:
cid - centromere identifier
Drosophila melanogaster
Synonyms:
BcDNA:RE21270, CENP-A, CENP-A homolog, CENP-A/CID, CENP-A/Cid, ...
- Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans rescue strains produce fit offspring, despite divergent centromere-specific histone alleles. Sainz, A., Wilder, J.A., Wolf, M., Hollocher, H. Heredity (2003)
- Centromeres and variant histones: what, where, when and why? Smith, M.M. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. (2002)
- The role of Drosophila CID in kinetochore formation, cell-cycle progression and heterochromatin interactions. Blower, M.D., Karpen, G.H. Nat. Cell Biol. (2001)
- Mislocalization of the Drosophila centromere-specific histone CID promotes formation of functional ectopic kinetochores. Heun, P., Erhardt, S., Blower, M.D., Weiss, S., Skora, A.D., Karpen, G.H. Dev. Cell (2006)
- Proteolysis restricts localization of CID, the centromere-specific histone H3 variant of Drosophila, to centromeres. Moreno-Moreno, O., Torras-Llort, M., Azor??n, F. Nucleic Acids Res. (2006)
- The Drosophila melanogaster condensin subunit Cap-G interacts with the centromere-specific histone H3 variant CID. Jäger, H., Rauch, M., Heidmann, S. Chromosoma (2005)
- Drosophila CENP-A mutations cause a BubR1-dependent early mitotic delay without normal localization of kinetochore components. Blower, M.D., Daigle, T., Kaufman, T., Karpen, G.H. PLoS Genet. (2006)