Dynamics of nuclear architecture during early embryonic development and lessons from liveimaging

F Pecori, ME Torres-Padilla - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
Nuclear organization has emerged as a potential key regulator of genome function. During
development, the deployment of transcriptional programs must be tightly coordinated with …

3DGenBench: a web-server to benchmark computational models for 3D Genomics

Nucleic Acids Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Modeling 3D genome organisation has been booming in the last years thanks to the
availability of experimental datasets of genomic contacts. However, the field is currently …

Genome-in-a-box: building a chromosome from the bottom up

A Birnie, C Dekker - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chromosome structure and dynamics are essential for life, as the way that our genomes are
spatially organized within cells is crucial for gene expression, differentiation, and genome …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative approaches in genome structure analysis

L Boninsegna, A Yildirim, Y Zhan, F Alber - Structure, 2022 - cell.com
New technological advances in integrated imaging, sequencing-based assays, and
computational analysis have revolutionized our view of genomes in terms of their structure …

Large-scale data-driven and physics-based models offer insights into the relationships among the structures, dynamics, and functions of chromosomes

C Feng, J Wang, X Chu - Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The organized three-dimensional chromosome architecture in the cell nucleus provides
scaffolding for precise regulation of gene expression. When the cell changes its identity in …

Fundamental insights into the correlation between chromosome configuration and transcription

S Senapati, IU Irshad, AK Sharma, H Kumar - Physical Biology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Eukaryotic chromosomes exhibit a hierarchical organization that spans a spectrum of length
scales, ranging from sub-regions known as loops, which typically comprise hundreds of …

Polymer models are a versatile tool to study chromatin 3D organization

A Esposito, S Bianco, L Fiorillo, M Conte… - Biochemical Society …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The development of new experimental technologies is opening the way to a deeper
investigation of the three-dimensional organization of chromosomes inside the cell nucleus …

[HTML][HTML] The physics of DNA folding: polymer models and phase-separation

A Esposito, A Abraham, M Conte, F Vercellone… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Within cell nuclei, several biophysical processes occur in order to allow the correct activities
of the genome such as transcription and gene regulation. To quantitatively investigate such …

[HTML][HTML] Unveiling the Machinery behind Chromosome Folding by Polymer Physics Modeling

M Conte, A Esposito, F Vercellone, A Abraham… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the complex 3D architecture of mammalian
genomes poses, at a more fundamental level, the problem of how two or multiple genomic …

Physical mechanisms of chromatin spatial organization

AM Chiariello, S Bianco, A Esposito, L Fiorillo… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In higher eukaryotes, chromosomes have a complex three‐dimensional (3D) conformation
in the cell nucleus serving vital functional purposes, yet their folding principles remain poorly …