The news section of the chemistry website Química.es echoes the latest discoveries by the research group led by Ferran Azorín at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), and published recently in Current Biology. Performed in Drosophila, the study reveals that the levels of the centromeric histone CenH3 in Drosophila, which are crucial for the correct function of the centromere during cell division, are tightly regulated through degradation in the proteasome.

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