[HTML][HTML] Phase separation-mediated chromatin organization and dynamics: From imaging-based quantitative characterizations to functional implications

WS Ng, H Sielaff, ZW Zhao - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
As an effective and versatile strategy to compartmentalize cellular components without the
need for lipid membranes, phase separation has been found to underpin a wide range of …

[HTML][HTML] Consistencies and contradictions in different polymer models of chromatin architecture

AS Câmara, M Mascher - Computational and Structural Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Genetic information is stored in very long DNA molecules, which are folded to form
chromatin, a similarly long polymer fibre that is ultimately organised into chromosomes. The …

[HTML][HTML] From the catastrophic objective irreproducibility of cancer research and unavoidable failures of molecular targeted therapies to the sparkling hope of …

I Alekseenko, L Kondratyeva, I Chernov… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented non-reproducibility of the results published in the field of cancer
research has recently come under the spotlight. In this short review, we try to highlight some …

[HTML][HTML] DNA choreography: correlating mobility and organization of DNA across different resolutions from loops to chromosomes

MK Pabba, J Meyer, K Celikay, L Schermelleh… - Histochemistry and Cell …, 2024 - Springer
The dynamics of DNA in the cell nucleus plays a role in cellular processes and fates but the
interplay of DNA mobility with the hierarchical levels of DNA organization is still …

[HTML][HTML] Replisome loading reduces chromatin motion independent of DNA synthesis

MK Pabba, C Ritter, VO Chagin, J Meyer, K Celikay… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Chromatin has been shown to undergo diffusional motion, which is affected during gene
transcription by RNA polymerase activity. However, the relationship between chromatin …

Phase-separated super-enhancers confer an innate radioresistance on genomic DNA

K Matsumoto, DK Ikliptikawati… - Journal of Radiation …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recently, biomolecular condensates formed through liquid–liquid phase separation have
been widely reported to regulate key intracellular processes involved in cell biology and …

Four-Dimensional Mesoscale Liquid Model of Nucleus Resolves Chromatin's Radial Organization

R Laghmach, M Di Pierro, DA Potoyan - PRX life, 2024 - APS
Recent advances chromatin capture, imaging techniques, and polymer modeling have
dramatically enhanced quantitative understanding of chromosomal folding. However, the …

Domain Model of Eukaryotic Genome Organization: From DNA Loops Fixed on the Nuclear Matrix to TADs

SV Razin, IV Zhegalova, OL Kantidze - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2022 - Springer
The article reviews the development of ideas on the domain organization of eukaryotic
genome, with special attention on the studies of DNA loops anchored to the nuclear matrix …

ASAR RNAs control replication through interactions with dozens of RNA binding proteins

MJ Thayer, MB Heskett, LG Smith, P Spellman… - Biorxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
ASARs are a family of very-long noncoding RNAs that control replication timing on individual
human autosomes, and are essential for chromosome stability. The eight known ASAR …

4D Mesoscale liquid model of nucleus resolves chromatin's radial organization

R Laghmach, M Di Pierro, D Potoyan - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Recent chromatin capture, imaging techniques, and polymer modeling advancements have
dramatically enhanced our quantitative understanding of chromosomal folding. However …