#EvoChromo ciliate kinetochores @maxraas.bsky.social @kopslab.bsky.social . Previous work w\ @jvhooff.bsky.social : tinyurl.com/y5h4ehnt showed a lack of Tetrahymena kinetochore complexity. Replacement, simplification or missed homologies? All of the above? - check out our pre-print tiny.cc/hp8w001

Excited to attend my second #EvoChromo meeting! We were very inspired to think about heterochromatin in an evolutionary context at the first one. Now I am excited introduce our collaborative work with the @kaushikr.bsky.social lab on Schizosaccharomycota HP1 silencing and epigenetic inheritance.

Cryo-EM reveals open and closed Asgard chromatin assemblies Ranawat et al. show the cryo-EM structures of Asgard archaeal chromatin assemblies, revealing that the histone HHoB assembles into both compact closed and extended open hypernucleosomes. The closed co...

Really cool work by the @dodonova-sveta.bsky.social lab @embl.org www.cell.com/molecular-ce... #archea #evochromo

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