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Targets of this pathway include centromeres, which are essential for normal chromosome segregation.
Those clones can be used as starting material for construction of physical maps of human centromeres as well as for functional analysis of centromeres.
Early observations by Rabl (cited by [ 3]) in plants suggested a preferential polarization of chromosomes, with their centromeres clustered at one end of the nuclear envelope (the apical side) and the telomeres at the opposite end (the basal side).
The second mechanism that can facilitate the dissolution of cohesin is proteolysis; this may be particularly important at centromeres.
The function of cohesion at the centromere is presumably to oppose the force of microtubules, which pull the chromosomes to opposite spindle poles; this force is not exerted along the chromosome arms, which means that cohesion at centromeres and along arms is functionally distinct.