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To protect against aneuploidy, chromosomes must attach to microtubules from opposite poles (“biorientation”) prior to their segregation during mitosis. Biorientation relies on the correction of erroneous attachments by the aurora B kinase, which destabilizes kinetochore-microtubule attachments that lack tension. Incorrect attachments are also avoided because sister kinetochores are intrinsically biased towards capture by microtubules from opposite poles. Here we show that shugoshin acts as a pericentromeric adaptor that plays dual roles in biorientation in budding yeast. Shugoshin maintains the aurora B kinase at kinetochores that lack tension, thereby engaging the error correction machinery. Shugoshin also recruits the chromosome-organising complex, condensin, to the pericentromere. Pericentromeric condensin biases sister kinetochores towards capture by microtubules from opposite poles. Overall, shugoshin integrates a bias to sister kinetochore capture with error correction to enable chromosome biorientation. Our findings uncover the molecular basis of the bias to sister kinetochore capture and expose shugoshin as a pericentromeric hub controlling chromosome biorientation.Overall design: Two experiments:Experiment A: Sgo1 is required for condensin localization in the pericentromere. Sample 1: Wild type input DNA Sample 2: Wild type Brn1-6HA ChIP DNA, Sample 3 sgo1D input DNA, Sample 4 sgo1D Brn1-6HA ChIP DNA; Experiment B: Sgo1 is not required for cohesin localization in the periecentromere: Sample 5: wild type input DNA, Sample 6 Wild type Scc1-6HA ChIP DNA, Sample 7, sgo1D input DNA, Sample 8 sgo1D Scc1-6HA ChIP DNA. 1 replicate of each repeat |