Exploring the three-dimensional organization of genomes: interpreting chromatin interaction data

J Dekker, MA Marti-Renom, LA Mirny - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
How DNA is organized in three dimensions inside the cell nucleus and how this affects the
ways in which cells access, read and interpret genetic information are among the longest …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of chromosomal domains by loop extrusion

G Fudenberg, M Imakaev, C Lu, A Goloborodko… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Topologically associating domains (TADs) are fundamental structural and functional
building blocks of human interphase chromosomes, yet the mechanisms of TAD formation …

CHiCAGO: robust detection of DNA looping interactions in Capture Hi-C data

J Cairns, P Freire-Pritchett, SW Wingett, C Várnai… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Capture Hi-C (CHi-C) is a method for profiling chromosomal interactions involving
targeted regions of interest, such as gene promoters, globally and at high resolution. Signal …

Modeling epigenome folding: formation and dynamics of topologically associated chromatin domains

D Jost, P Carrivain, G Cavalli… - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Genomes of eukaryotes are partitioned into domains of functionally distinct chromatin states.
These domains are stably inherited across many cell generations and can be remodeled in …

Complexity of chromatin folding is captured by the strings and binders switch model

M Barbieri, M Chotalia, J Fraser… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Chromatin has a complex spatial organization in the cell nucleus that serves vital functional
purposes. A variety of chromatin folding conformations has been detected by single-cell …

Loop-extrusion and polymer phase-separation can co-exist at the single-molecule level to shape chromatin folding

M Conte, E Irani, AM Chiariello, A Abraham… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Loop-extrusion and phase-separation have been proposed as mechanisms that shape
chromosome spatial organization. It is unclear, however, how they perform relative to each …

Polymer physics indicates chromatin folding variability across single-cells results from state degeneracy in phase separation

M Conte, L Fiorillo, S Bianco, AM Chiariello… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The spatial organization of chromosomes has key functional roles, yet how chromosomes
fold remains poorly understood at the single-molecule level. Here, we employ models of …

Polymer physics predicts the effects of structural variants on chromatin architecture

S Bianco, DG Lupiáñez, AM Chiariello… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) can result in changes in gene expression due to abnormal
chromatin folding and cause disease. However, the prediction of such effects remains a …

Loss of lamin A function increases chromatin dynamics in the nuclear interior

I Bronshtein, E Kepten, I Kanter, S Berezin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Chromatin is organized in a highly ordered yet dynamic manner in the cell nucleus, but the
principles governing this organization remain unclear. Similarly, it is unknown whether, and …