Research by Xiaoji Sun and Tovah Markowitz in the Hochwagen lab has uncovered a key mechanism that allows condensed meiotic chromosomes to be transcribed. The results, published recently in eLIFE, show that chromatin is flexibly anchored to the chromosome axis by cohesin rings. This way the axis simply moves out of the way of transcription without losing condensation.
The article can be accessed here.
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