The KAT's Out of the Bag: Histone Acetylation Promotes Centromere Assembly.

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Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, USA; Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, USA. Electronic address:

Published: June 2016

Heterochromatin is incompatible with centromeric chromatin assembly and propagation. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Ohzeki et al. (2016) reveal that a critical role of the Mis18 complex is to transiently recruit the lysine acetyltransferase KAT7 to centromeres to facilitate the removal of H3K9me3 and the deposition of CENP-A.

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