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We have investigated the chromatin structure of Kluyveromyces lactis centromeres in isolated nuclei of K. lactis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using micrococcal nuclease and DNAse I digestion. The protected region found in K. lactis is approximately 270 bp long and encompasses the centromeric DNA elements, KlCDEI, KlCDEII, and KlCDEIII, but not KlCDE0. Halving KlCDEII to 82 bp impaired centromere function and led to a smaller protected structure (210 bp). Likewise, deletion of 5 bp from KlCDEI plus adjacent flanking sequences resulted in a smaller protected region and a decrease in centromere function. The chromatin structures of KlCEN2 and KlCEN4 present on plasmids were found to be similar to the structures of the corresponding centromeres in their chromosomal context. A different protection pattern of KlCEN2 was detected in S. cerevisiae, suggesting that KlCEN2 is not properly recognized by at least one of the centromere binding proteins of S. cerevisiae. The difference is mainly found at the KlCDEIII side of the structure. This suggests that one of the components of the ScCBF3-complex is not able to bind to KlCDEIII, which could explain the species specificity of K. lactis and S. cerevisiae centromeres.
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