Biology – Quantitative Biology – Other Quantitative Biology
Scientific paper
2007-12-06
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Other Quantitative Biology
13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, and supporting notes
Scientific paper
Apart from being the gateway for all access to the eukaryotic genome, chromatin has in recent years been identified as carrying an epigenetic code regulating transcriptional activity. The detailed knowledge of this code contrasts the ignorance of the fiber structure which it regulates, and none of the suggested fiber models are capable of predicting the most basic quantities of the fiber (diameter, nucleosome line density, etc.). We address this three-decade-old problem by constructing a simple geometrical model based on the nucleosome shape alone. Without fit parameters we predict the observed properties of the condensed chromatin fiber (e.g. its 30 nm diameter), the structure, and how the fiber changes with varying nucleosome repeat length. Our approach further puts the plethora of previously suggested models within a coherent framework, and opens the door to detailed studies of the interplay between chromatin structure and function.
Depken Martin
Schiessel Helmut
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