Computational approaches from polymer physics to investigate chromatin folding

Item Type:	Review
Title:	Computational approaches from polymer physics to investigate chromatin folding
Creators Name:	Bianco, S. and Chiariello, A.M. and Conte, M. and Esposito, A. and Fiorillo, L. and Musella, F. and Nicodemi, M.
Abstract:	Microscopy and sequencing-based technologies are providing increasing insights into chromatin architecture. Nevertheless, a full comprehension of chromosome folding and its link with vital cell functions is far from accomplished at the molecular level. Recent theoretical and computational approaches are providing important support to experiments to dissect the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes and its organizational mechanisms. Here, we review, in particular, the String&Binders polymer model of chromatin that describes the textbook scenario where contacts between distal DNA sites are established by cognate binders. It has been shown to recapitulate key features of chromosome folding and to be able at predicting how phenotypes causing structural variants rewire the interactions between genes and regulators.
Keywords:	Chromatin Organization, Polymer Models, SBS Model, Loop Extrusion Model, Structural Variants, Statistical Mechanics, EPHA4, Pitx1
Source:	Current Opinion in Cell Biology
ISSN:	0955-0674
Publisher:	Elsevier / Current Biology
Volume:	64
Page Range:	10-17
Date:	June 2020
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2020.01.002
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