Parking in Two Steps: How the Cdc13 Protein Docks at the Telomere
The end of a chromosome is like a parking spot at the entrance to a building: it has to be occupied, or the cell will take it for damage and start repairing something that was never broken. In yeast, the role of parking attendant goes to the protein Cdc13. It recognizes the telomere, the terminal stretch of the chromosome, and latches onto it.