Spatial organization of chromatin domains and compartments in single chromosomes

S Wang, JH Su, BJ Beliveau, B Bintu, JR Moffitt, C Wu… - Biophysical …, 2017 - cell.com
The spatial organization of chromatin critically affects genome function. Recent chromosome-
conformation-capture studies have revealed topologically associating domains (TADs) as a …

Chromatin globules: a common motif of higher order chromosome structure?

A Sanyal, D Baù, MA Martí-Renom, J Dekker - Current opinion in cell …, 2011 - Elsevier
Recent technological advances in the field of chromosome conformation capture are
facilitating tremendous progress in the ability to map the three-dimensional (3D) …

Dynamic nucleosome movement provides structural information of topological chromatin domains in living human cells

S Shinkai, T Nozaki, K Maeshima… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The mammalian genome is organized into submegabase-sized chromatin domains (CDs)
including topologically associating domains, which have been identified using chromosome …

Chromatin domains: the unit of chromosome organization

JR Dixon, DU Gorkin, B Ren - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
How eukaryotic chromosomes fold inside the nucleus is an age-old question that remains
unanswered today. Early biochemical and microscopic studies revealed the existence of …

Models that include supercoiling of topological domains reproduce several known features of interphase chromosomes

F Benedetti, J Dorier, Y Burnier… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the structure of interphase chromosomes is essential to elucidate regulatory
mechanisms of gene expression. During recent years, high-throughput DNA sequencing …

Generation of dynamic three-dimensional genome structure through phase separation of chromatin

S Fujishiro, M Sasai - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Three-dimensional genome structure and dynamics play critical roles in regulating DNA
functions. Flexible chromatin structure and movements suggested that the genome is …

The hierarchy of the 3D genome

JH Gibcus, J Dekker - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Mammalian genomes encode genetic information in their linear sequence, but appropriate
expression of their genes requires chromosomes to fold into complex three-dimensional …

Principles of genome folding into topologically associating domains

Q Szabo, F Bantignies, G Cavalli - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Understanding the mechanisms that underlie chromosome folding within cell nuclei is
essential to determine the relationship between genome structure and function. The recent …

Super-resolution chromatin tracing reveals domains and cooperative interactions in single cells

B Bintu, LJ Mateo, JH Su, NA Sinnott-Armstrong… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Chromatin adopts an intricate three-dimensional (3D) organization in the
nucleus that is critical for many genome processes, from gene regulation to genome …

Large-scale chromatin organization: the good, the surprising, and the still perplexing

AS Belmont - Current opinion in cell biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Traditionally large-scale chromatin structure has been studied by microscopic approaches,
providing direct spatial information but limited sequence context. In contrast, newer 3C …