Evaluating the role of the nuclear microenvironment in gene function by population-based modeling

A Yildirim, N Hua, L Boninsegna, Y Zhan… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The nuclear folding of chromosomes relative to nuclear bodies is an integral part of gene
function. Here, we demonstrate that population-based modeling—from ensemble Hi-C data …

Chromosomal dynamics predicted by an elastic network model explains genome-wide accessibility and long-range couplings

N Sauerwald, S Zhang, C Kingsford… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the three-dimensional (3D) architecture of chromatin and its relation to gene
expression and regulation is fundamental to understanding how the genome functions …

Integrative genome modeling platform reveals essentiality of rare contact events in 3D genome organizations

L Boninsegna, A Yildirim, G Polles, Y Zhan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A multitude of sequencing-based and microscopy technologies provide the means to
unravel the relationship between the three-dimensional organization of genomes and key …

Reconstructing spatial organizations of chromosomes through manifold learning

G Zhu, W Deng, H Hu, R Ma, S Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Decoding the spatial organizations of chromosomes has crucial implications for studying
eukaryotic gene regulation. Recently, chromosomal conformation capture based …

Predicting three-dimensional genome organization with chromatin states

Y Qi, B Zhang - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We introduce a computational model to simulate chromatin structure and dynamics. Starting
from one-dimensional genomics and epigenomics data that are available for hundreds of …

Integrative modeling reveals the principles of multi-scale chromatin boundary formation in human nuclear organization

BL Moore, S Aitken, CA Semple - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Interphase chromosomes adopt a hierarchical structure, and recent data have
characterized their chromatin organization at very different scales, from sub-genic regions …

A unified framework for inferring the multi-scale organization of chromatin domains from Hi-C

JH Bak, MH Kim, L Liu, C Hyeon - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Chromosomes are giant chain molecules organized into an ensemble of three-dimensional
structures characterized with its genomic state and the corresponding biological functions …

Perspectives: using polymer modeling to understand the formation and function of nuclear compartments

N Haddad, D Jost, C Vaillant - Chromosome Research, 2017 - Springer
Compartmentalization is a ubiquitous feature of cellular function. In the nucleus, early
observations revealed a non-random spatial organization of the genome with a large-scale …

Mesoscale modeling reveals formation of an epigenetically driven HOXC gene hub

GD Bascom, CG Myers… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Gene expression is orchestrated at the structural level by nucleosome positioning, histone
tail acetylation, and linker histone (LH) binding. Here, we integrate available data on …

Hi-C-constrained physical models of human chromosomes recover functionally-related properties of genome organization

M Di Stefano, J Paulsen, TG Lien, E Hovig… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Combining genome-wide structural models with phenomenological data is at the forefront of
efforts to understand the organizational principles regulating the human genome. Here, we …