Emerging roles of linker histones in regulating chromatin structure and function

DV Fyodorov, BR Zhou, AI Skoultchi… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Together with core histones, which make up the nucleosome, the linker histone (H1) is one
of the five main histone protein families present in chromatin in eukaryotic cells. H1 binds to …

Biophysics of chromatin dynamics

B Fierz, MG Poirier - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Nucleosomes and chromatin control eukaryotic genome accessibility and thereby regulate
DNA processes, including transcription, replication, and repair. Conformational dynamics …

Cohesin loss eliminates all loop domains

SSP Rao, SC Huang, BG St Hilaire, JM Engreitz… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The human genome folds to create thousands of intervals, called" contact domains," that
exhibit enhanced contact frequency within themselves." Loop domains" form because of …

Resolving the 3D landscape of transcription-linked mammalian chromatin folding

THS Hsieh, C Cattoglio, E Slobodyanyuk, AS Hansen… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Whereas folding of genomes at the large scale of epigenomic compartments and
topologically associating domains (TADs) is now relatively well understood, how chromatin …

Nucleosome plasticity is a critical element of chromatin liquid–liquid phase separation and multivalent nucleosome interactions

SE Farr, EJ Woods, JA Joseph, A Garaizar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is an important mechanism that helps explain the
membraneless compartmentalization of the nucleus. Because chromatin compaction and …

Transferable model for chromosome architecture

M Di Pierro, B Zhang, EL Aiden… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
In vivo, the human genome folds into a characteristic ensemble of 3D structures. The
mechanism driving the folding process remains unknown. We report a theoretical model for …

De novo prediction of human chromosome structures: Epigenetic marking patterns encode genome architecture

M Di Pierro, RR Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Inside the cell nucleus, genomes fold into organized structures that are characteristic of cell
type. Here, we show that this chromatin architecture can be predicted de novo using …

Single-molecule FRET reveals multiscale chromatin dynamics modulated by HP1α

S Kilic, S Felekyan, O Doroshenko, I Boichenko… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The dynamic architecture of chromatin fibers, a key determinant of genome regulation, is
poorly understood. Here, we employ multimodal single-molecule Förster resonance energy …

Mesoscale modeling and single-nucleosome tracking reveal remodeling of clutch folding and dynamics in stem cell differentiation

PA Gómez-García, S Portillo-Ledesma, MV Neguembor… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Nucleosomes form heterogeneous groups in vivo, named clutches. Clutches are smaller
and less dense in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) compared to neural progenitor cells …

Biomolecular modeling and simulation: a prospering multidisciplinary field

T Schlick, S Portillo-Ledesma, CG Myers… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We reassess progress in the field of biomolecular modeling and simulation, following up on
our perspective published in 2011. By reviewing metrics for the field's productivity and …