Polymer reptation and nucleosome repositioning

Details Polymer reptation and nucleosome repositioning Polymer reptation and nucleosome repositioning

2001-02-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102133v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, including 2 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4414

We consider how beads can diffuse along a chain that wraps them, without becoming displaced from the chain; our proposed mechanism is analogous to the reptation of "stored length" in more familiar situations of polymer dynamics. The problem arises in the case of globular aggregates of proteins (histones) that are wound by DNA in the chromosomes of plants and animals; these beads (nucleosomes) are multiply wrapped and yet are able to reposition themselves over long distances, while remaining bound by the DNA chain.

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