We thank Dr Soutoglou for lacO-tetO U2OS cells Diego) and I. Cheeseman (MIT) for the CENP-T antibodies , Dr. B. Earnshaw (University of Edinburgh) for the human CENP-C cDNA, and Dr. D. Foltz (University of Virginia) for the HJURP antibody. We also thank Drs. D. Pan and C. Smith (Max Planck) for technical assistance, and Drs. H. Kurumizaka and Y. Arimura (Waseda University) for sharing the reconstituted human CenH3 CENP-A -H4 complex. We thank G. Ossolengo at the Antibody Facility of IFOM-IEO Campus (Milan) for antibody production. We acknowledge the PICT-IBiSA@Pasteur Microscopy Facility (Institut Curie)- BioImaging for assistance with microscopy, This work was supported by la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer (E ´ quipe Labellisé e Ligue), the European Commission Network of Excellence EpiGeneSys ,
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