[HTML][HTML] Chromosome conformation capture and beyond: toward an integrative view of chromosome structure and function

RP McCord, N Kaplan, L Giorgetti - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Rapidly developing technologies have recently fueled an exciting era of discovery in the
field of chromosome structure and nuclear organization. In addition to chromosome …

DNA repair: the search for homology

JE Haber - Bioessays, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The repair of chromosomal double‐strand breaks (DSBs) by homologous recombination is
essential to maintain genome integrity. The key step in DSB repair is the RecA/Rad51 …

Transcription-coupled changes in nuclear mobility of mammalian cis-regulatory elements

B Gu, T Swigut, A Spencley, MR Bauer, M Chung… - Science, 2018 - science.org
To achieve guide RNA (gRNA) multiplexing and an efficient delivery of tens of distinct
gRNAs into single cells, we developed a molecular assembly strategy termed chimeric array …

Anomalous diffusion, spatial coherence, and viscoelasticity from the energy landscape of human chromosomes

M Di Pierro, DA Potoyan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The nucleus of a eukaryotic cell is a nonequilibrium system where chromatin is subjected to
active processes that continuously rearrange it over the cell's life cycle. Tracking the motion …

Rad54 drives ATP hydrolysis-dependent DNA sequence alignment during homologous recombination

JB Crickard, CJ Moevus, Y Kwon, P Sung, EC Greene - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Homologous recombination (HR) helps maintain genome integrity, and HR defects give rise
to disease, especially cancer. During HR, damaged DNA must be aligned with an …

Chromosome dynamics near the sol-gel phase transition dictate the timing of remote genomic interactions

N Khanna, Y Zhang, JS Lucas, OK Dudko… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Diverse antibody repertoires are generated through remote genomic interactions involving
immunoglobulin variable (VH), diversity (DH) and joining (JH) gene segments. How such …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanobiology of nuclear phase separation

DSW Lee, AR Strom, CP Brangwynne - APL bioengineering, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The cell nucleus can be thought of as a complex, dynamic, living material, which functions to
organize and protect the genome and coordinate gene expression. These functions are …

Effects of active fluctuations on energetics of a colloidal particle: Superdiffusion, dissipation and entropy production

S Chaki, R Chakrabarti - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2019 - Elsevier
We consider a colloidal particle immersed in an active bath and derive a Smoluchowski
equation that governs the dynamics of the colloidal particle. We address this as active …

Target search by an imported conjugative DNA element for a unique integration site along a bacterial chromosome during horizontal gene transfer

R Arbel-Goren, SA McKeithen-Mead… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are mobile genetic elements that can transfer by
conjugation to recipient cells. Some ICEs integrate into a unique site in the genome of their …

Diffusion of nanoparticles with activated hopping in crowded polymer solutions

C Xue, X Shi, Y Tian, X Zheng, G Hu - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
A long-distance hop of diffusive nanoparticles (NPs) in crowded environments was
commonly considered unlikely, and its characteristics remain unclear. In this work, we …