Heterogeneous fluid-like movements of chromatin and their implications to transcription

SS Ashwin, K Maeshima, M Sasai - Biophysical Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Eukaryotic chromatin is a complex of genome DNA and associated proteins, and its structure
and dynamics play a crucial role in regulating DNA functions. Chromatin takes rather …

Local chromatin motion and transcription

M Babokhov, K Hibino, Y Itoh, K Maeshima - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Eukaryotic chromatin is a complex of nucleic acids and proteins that is central to interpreting
the information coded in the genome. Chromatin is rather irregularly folded inside the …

Spatial organization of chromosomes leads to heterogeneous chromatin motion and drives the liquid-or gel-like dynamical behavior of chromatin

H Salari, M Di Stefano, D Jost - Genome research, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Chromosome organization and dynamics are involved in regulating many fundamental
processes such as gene transcription and DNA repair. Experiments unveiled that chromatin …

Organization of fast and slow chromatin revealed by single-nucleosome dynamics

SS Ashwin, T Nozaki, K Maeshima… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding chromatin organization and dynamics is important, since they crucially affect
DNA functions. In this study, we investigate chromatin dynamics by statistically analyzing …

Chromatin dynamics in living cells: identification of oscillatory motion

A Pliss, KS Malyavantham… - Journal of cellular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic DNA in mammalian cells is organized into∼ 1 Mbp chromatin domains (ChrD)
which represent the basic structural units for DNA compaction, replication, and transcription …

Micron-scale coherence in interphase chromatin dynamics

A Zidovska, DA Weitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Chromatin structure and dynamics control all aspects of DNA biology yet are poorly
understood, especially at large length scales. We developed an approach, displacement …

Single-nucleosome imaging reveals steady-state motion of interphase chromatin in living human cells

S Iida, S Shinkai, Y Itoh, S Tamura, MT Kanemaki… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Dynamic chromatin behavior plays a critical role in various genome functions. However, it
remains unclear how chromatin behavior changes during interphase, where the nucleus …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of transcription-dependent physical perturbations on the chromosome dynamics in living cells

H Ku, G Park, J Goo, J Lee, TL Park, H Shim… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies with single-particle tracking in live cells have revealed that chromatin
dynamics are directly affected by transcription. However, how transcription alters the …

[HTML][HTML] Internal motion of chromatin fibers is governed by dynamics of uncompressed linker strands

R Basak, W Rosencrans, I Yadav, P Yan… - Biophysical …, 2020 - cell.com
Chromatin compaction and internal motion are fundamental aspects of gene expression
regulation. Here, we have investigated chromatin fibers comprising recombinant histone …

Chromosome dynamics in response to DNA damage

A Seeber, MH Hauer, SM Gasser - Annual review of genetics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in both the technologies used to measure chromatin movement and the
biophysical analysis used to model them have yielded a fuller understanding of chromatin …