Effective modeling of the chromatin structure by coarse-grained methods

I Tuszynska, P Bednarz, B Wilczynski - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The interphase chromatin structure is extremely complex, precise and dynamic.
Experimental methods can only show the frequency of interaction of the various parts of the …

Black chromatin is indispensable for accurate simulations of Drosophila melanogaster chromatin structure

I Tuszynska, P Bednarz, B Wilczynski - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The interphase chromatin structure is extremely complex, precise and dynamic.
Experimental methods can only show the frequency of interaction of the various parts of the …

The chromatin fiber: multiscale problems and approaches

G Ozer, A Luque, T Schlick - Current opinion in structural biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The structure of chromatin, affected by many factors from DNA linker lengths to
posttranslational modifications, is crucial to the regulation of eukaryotic cells. Combined …

Predicting three-dimensional genome organization with chromatin states

Y Qi, B Zhang - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We introduce a computational model to simulate chromatin structure and dynamics. Starting
from one-dimensional genomics and epigenomics data that are available for hundreds of …

Three-dimensional modeling of chromatin structure from interaction frequency data using Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling

M Rousseau, J Fraser, MA Ferraiuolo, J Dostie… - BMC …, 2011 - Springer
Background Long-range interactions between regulatory DNA elements such as enhancers,
insulators and promoters play an important role in regulating transcription. As chromatin …

Mechanistic modeling of chromatin folding to understand function

CA Brackey, D Marenduzzo, N Gilbert - Nature Methods, 2020 - nature.com
Experimental approaches have been applied to address questions in understanding three-
dimensional chromatin organization and function. As datasets increase in size and …

Bottom-up data integration in polymer models of chromatin organization

ACY Zhang, A Rosa, G Sanguinetti - Biophysical Journal, 2024 - cell.com
Cellular functions crucially depend on the precise execution of complex biochemical
reactions taking place on the chromatin fiber in the tightly packed environment of the cell …

Bottom-up meets top-down: the crossroads of multiscale chromatin modeling

J Moller, JJ de Pablo - Biophysical Journal, 2020 - cell.com
Chromatin can be viewed as a hierarchically structured fiber that regulates gene expression.
It consists of a complex network of DNA and proteins whose characteristic dynamical modes …

Role of protein-protein interactions on model chromatin organization

P Swain, S Choubey, S Vemparala - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The three-dimensional organization of chromatin is influenced by DNA-binding proteins,
through specific and non-specific interactions. However, the role of DNA sequence and …

Inference of the three-dimensional chromatin structure and its temporal behavior

BC Cristescu, Z Borsos, J Lygeros, MR Martínez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Understanding the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the genome is essential for
elucidating vital biological processes and their links to human disease. To determine how …