AUTHOR=Karimi-Ashtiyani Raheleh , Schubert Veit , Houben Andreas TITLE=Only the Rye Derived Part of the 1BL/1RS Hybrid Centromere Incorporates CENH3 of Wheat JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.802222 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2021.802222 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=

The precise assembly of the kinetochore complex at the centromere is epigenetically determined by substituting histone H3 with the centromere-specific histone H3 variant CENH3 in centromeric nucleosomes. A chromosome 1B reconstructed in wheat by centric misdivision from two wheat-rye centric translocations is known to carry a hybrid wheat-rye centromere. The resulting hybrid (dicentric)centromere is composed of both wheat and rye centromeric repeats. As CENH3 is a marker for centromere activity, we applied Immuno-FISH followed by ultrastructural super-resolution microscopy to address whether both or only parts of the hybrid centromere are active. Our study demonstrates that only the rye-derived centromere part incorporates CENH3 of wheat in the 1BL/1RS hybrid centromere. This finding supports the notion that one centromere part of a translocated chromosome undergoes inactivation, creating functional monocentric chromosomes to maintain chromosome stability.