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Kiyotaka Nagaki, Paul B Talbert, Cathy Xiaoyan Zhong, R Kelly Dawe, Steven Henikoff, Jiming Jiang, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Reveals That the 180-bp Satellite Repeat Is the Key Functional DNA Element of Arabidopsis thaliana Centromeres, Genetics, Volume 163, Issue 3, 1 March 2003, Pages 1221–1225, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/163.3.1221
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Abstract
The centromeres of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosomes contain megabases of complex DNA consisting of numerous types of repetitive DNA elements. We developed a chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) technique using an antibody against the centromeric H3 histone, HTR12, in Arabidopsis. ChIP assays showed that the 180-bp centromeric satellite repeat was precipitated with the antibody, suggesting that this repeat is the key component of the centromere/kinetochore complex in Arabidopsis.