The biology and polymer physics underlying large‐scale chromosome organization

S Sazer, H Schiessel - Traffic, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Chromosome large‐scale organization is a beautiful example of the interplay between
physics and biology. DNA molecules are polymers and thus belong to the class of molecules …

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 …

Local chromatin motion and transcription

M Babokhov, K Hibino, Y Itoh, K Maeshima - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Eukaryotic chromatin is a complex of nucleic acids and proteins that is central to interpreting
the information coded in the genome. Chromatin is rather irregularly folded inside the …

Nucleosome positions alone can be used to predict domains in yeast chromosomes

O Wiese, D Marenduzzo… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We use molecular dynamics simulations based on publicly available micrococcal nuclease
sequencing data for nucleosome positions to predict the 3D structure of chromatin in the …

Analysis of LncRNA expression in cell differentiation

Q Yang, Q Wan, L Zhang, Y Li, P Zhang, D Li… - RNA biology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Lineage-specific cell differentiation is a precise and coordinated biological process. To
explore the roles of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) in this process, the expression of polyA …

Chromatin transitions triggered by LH density as epigenetic regulators of the genome

S Portillo-Ledesma, M Wagley… - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivated by experiments connecting linker histone (LH) deficiency to lymphoma
progression and retinal disorders, we study by mesoscale chromatin modeling how LH …

A multiplexed DNA FISH strategy for assessing genome architecture in Caenorhabditis elegans

BD Fields, SC Nguyen, G Nir, S Kennedy - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Eukaryotic DNA is highly organized within nuclei and this organization is important for
genome function. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) approaches allow 3D architectures …

StackTADB: a stacking-based ensemble learning model for predicting the boundaries of topologically associating domains (TADs) accurately in fruit flies

H Wu, P Zhang, Z Ai, L Wei, H Zhang… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Chromosome is composed of many distinct chromatin domains, referred to variably as
topological domains or topologically associating domains (TADs). The domains are stable …

Gene functioning and storage within a folded genome

SV Razin, SV Ulianov - Cellular & molecular biology letters, 2017 - Springer
In mammals, genomic DNA that is roughly 2 m long is folded to fit the size of the cell nucleus
that has a diameter of about 10 μm. The folding of genomic DNA is mediated via assembly of …

Single‐cell Hi‐C bridges microscopy and genome‐wide sequencing approaches to study 3D chromatin organization

SV Ulianov, K Tachibana‐Konwalski, SV Razin - BioEssays, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of the single‐cell biochemical toolbox including
chromosome conformation capture (3C)‐based methods that provide novel insights into …