Understanding 3D genome organization by multidisciplinary methods

I Jerkovic, G Cavalli - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how chromatin is folded in the nucleus is fundamental to understanding its
function. Although 3D genome organization has been historically difficult to study owing to a …

3D genomics across the tree of life reveals condensin II as a determinant of architecture type

C Hoencamp, O Dudchenko, AMO Elbatsh… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We investigated genome folding across the eukaryotic tree of life. We find two types of three-
dimensional (3D) genome architectures at the chromosome scale. Each type appears and …

4D epigenomics: deciphering the coupling between genome folding and epigenomic regulation with biophysical modeling

AZ Abdulla, H Salari, MMC Tortora, C Vaillant… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent experimental observations suggest a strong coupling between the 3D nuclear
chromosome organization and epigenomics. However, the mechanistic and functional …

Chromatin alternates between A and B compartments at kilobase scale for subgenic organization

HL Harris, H Gu, M Olshansky, A Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nuclear compartments are prominent features of 3D chromatin organization, but sequencing
depth limitations have impeded investigation at ultra fine-scale. CTCF loops are generally …

The 2022 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection

DJ Rigden, XM Fernández - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The 2022 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 185 papers, including
87 papers reporting on new databases and 85 updates from resources previously published …

A new precision medicine initiative at the dawn of exascale computing

R Nussinov, H Jang, G Nir, CJ Tsai… - Signal Transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Which signaling pathway and protein to select to mitigate the patient's expected drug
resistance? The number of possibilities facing the physician is massive, and the drug …

Exploring chromosomal structural heterogeneity across multiple cell lines

RR Cheng, VG Contessoto, E Lieberman Aiden… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Using computer simulations, we generate cell-specific 3D chromosomal structures and
compare them to recently published chromatin structures obtained through microscopy. We …

Uncovering the statistical physics of 3D chromosomal organization using data-driven modeling

VG Contessoto, RR Cheng, JN Onuchic - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, much effort has been devoted to understanding the three-dimensional (3D)
organization of the genome and how genomic structure mediates nuclear function. The …

PyMEGABASE: predicting cell-type-specific structural annotations of chromosomes using the epigenome

E Dodero-Rojas, MF Mello, S Brahmachari… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
The folding patterns of interphase genomes in higher eukaryotes, as obtained from DNA-
proximity-ligation or Hi-C experiments, are used to classify loci into structural classes called …

A liquid state perspective on dynamics of chromatin compartments

R Laghmach, M Di Pierro, D Potoyan - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The interior of the eukaryotic cell nucleus has a crowded and heterogeneous environment
packed with chromatin polymers, regulatory proteins, and RNA molecules. Chromatin …