The fractal dimension of chromatin-a potential molecular marker for carcinogenesis, tumor progression and prognosis

K Metze, R Adam, JB Florindo - Expert review of molecular …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Fractality is omnipresent in medicine and life sciences. In particular, the fractal
principle is found simultaneously at different organization levels of the cell nucleus. The aim …

Stochastic motion and transcriptional dynamics of pairs of distal DNA loci on a compacted chromosome

DB Brückner, H Chen, L Barinov, B Zoller, T Gregor - Science, 2023 - science.org
Chromosomes in the eukaryotic nucleus are highly compacted. However, for many
functional processes, including transcription initiation, the pairwise motion of distal …

[HTML][HTML] Mitotic chromosomes are self-entangled and disentangle through a topoisomerase-II-dependent two-stage exit from mitosis

EM Hildebrand, K Polovnikov, B Dekker, Y Liu… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
The topological state of chromosomes determines their mechanical properties, dynamics,
and function. Recent work indicated that interphase chromosomes are largely free of …

Interphase human chromosome exhibits out of equilibrium glassy dynamics

G Shi, L Liu, C Hyeon, D Thirumalai - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Fingerprints of the three-dimensional organization of genomes have emerged using
advances in Hi-C and imaging techniques. However, genome dynamics is poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale modeling of genome organization with maximum entropy optimization

X Lin, Y Qi, AP Latham, B Zhang - The Journal of chemical physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT Three-dimensional (3D) organization of the human genome plays an essential
role in all DNA-templated processes, including gene transcription, gene regulation, and …

Euchromatin activity enhances segregation and compaction of heterochromatin in the cell nucleus

A Mahajan, W Yan, A Zidovska, D Saintillan… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
The large-scale organization of the genome inside the cell nucleus is critical for the cell's
function. Chromatin—the functional form of DNA in cells—serves as a template for active …

Chromatin compaction multiscale modeling: a complex synergy between theory, simulation, and experiment

A Bendandi, S Dante, SR Zia, A Diaspro… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the mechanisms that trigger chromatin compaction, its patterns, and the
factors they depend on, is a fundamental and still open question in Biology. Chromatin …

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 …

How epigenome drives chromatin folding and dynamics, insights from efficient coarse-grained models of chromosomes

SK Ghosh, D Jost - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The 3D organization of chromosomes is crucial for regulating gene expression and cell
function. Many experimental and polymer modeling efforts are dedicated to deciphering the …

Crumpled polymer with loops recapitulates key features of chromosome organization

KE Polovnikov, HB Brandão, S Belan, B Slavov… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Chromosomes are exceedingly long topologically constrained polymers compacted in a cell
nucleus. We recently suggested that chromosomes are organized into loops by an active …