Uncovering the principles of genome folding by 3D chromatin modeling

A Yildirim, L Boninsegna… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
… A breakthrough in our understanding of chromatin folding came from the genome-wide
detection of chromatin loops, contact domains (Rao et al. 2014), and TADs from Hi-C …

Genome modeling: from chromatin fibers to genes

S Portillo-Ledesma, Z Li, T Schlick - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
… and techniques in the next section, we will describe associated applications in three
subsequent sections organized by genome level, followed by gene folding, and ideas regarding …

Modeling epigenome folding: formation and dynamics of topologically associated chromatin domains

D Jost, P Carrivain, G Cavalli… - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
chromatin folding and epigenome. Using polymer physics, we analyze the properties of a
block copolymer model … good agreement with the folding patterns observed in chromosome …

How the genome folds: the biophysics of four-dimensional chromatin organization

JJ Parmar, M Woringer, C Zimmer - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
… According to this model, cohesin rings land on chromatin and actively pull out (extrude)
the DNA until they fall off or encounter obstacles such as CTCF bound sites (with the right …

Structural modeling of chromatin integrates genome features and reveals chromosome folding principle

WJ Xie, L Meng, S Liu, L Zhang, X Cai, YQ Gao - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
chromatin … of genome features onto the constructed 3D chromatin model, we show vividly
the close connection between genome properties and the spatial organization of chromatin. …

How epigenome drives chromatin folding and dynamics, insights from efficient coarse-grained models of chromosomes

SK Ghosh, D Jost - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… grained null models for … folding and dynamics of drosophila genome. Finally, we discuss
our results and their implications in the general context of chromosome modeling and chromatin

Linking chromatin fibers to gene folding by hierarchical looping

G Bascom, T Schlick - Biophysical journal, 2017 - cell.com
… with mesoscale modeling. We suggest that while the local folding of chromatin can be regulated
… From a combination of 3C data and mesoscale modeling, we suggest that hierarchical …

Predicting three-dimensional genome organization with chromatin states

Y Qi, B Zhang - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
model to simulate chromatin structure and dynamics. Starting from one-dimensional genomics
and … We introduce a predictive model to study cell-type specific 3D chromatin folding. This …

Integrative studies of 3D genome organization and chromatin structure

M Di Stefano, G Cavalli - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
… short-range interactions between chromatin domains of the same type may reproduce
the 3D genome folding of several regions (Figure 3b–c). The polymer models could predict …

Depletion effects massively change chromatin properties and influence genome folding

PM Diesinger, DW Heermann - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
… We present a Monte Carlo model for genome folding at the 30-nm scale with focus on
linker-histone and nucleosome depletion effects. We find that parameter distributions from …