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Multiplexing Genetic and Nucleosome Positioning Codes: A Computational Approach.

ABSTRACT: Eukaryotic DNA is strongly bent inside fundamental packaging units: the nucleosomes. It is known that their positions are strongly influenced by the mechanical properties of the underlying DNA sequence. Here we discuss the possibility that these mechanical properties and the concomitant nucleosome positions are not just a side product of the given DNA sequence, e.g. that of the genes, but that a mechanical evolution of DNA molecules might have taken place. We first demonstrate the possibility of multiplexing classical and mechanical genetic information using a computational nucleosome model. In a second step we give evidence for genome-wide multiplexing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosacharomyces pombe. This suggests that the exact positions of nucleosomes play crucial roles in chromatin function.

SUBMITTER: Eslami-Mossallam B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4896621 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Multiplexing Genetic and Nucleosome Positioning Codes: A Computational Approach.

Eslami-Mossallam Behrouz B Schram Raoul D RD Tompitak Marco M van Noort John J Schiessel Helmut H

PloS one 20160607 6

Eukaryotic DNA is strongly bent inside fundamental packaging units: the nucleosomes. It is known that their positions are strongly influenced by the mechanical properties of the underlying DNA sequence. Here we discuss the possibility that these mechanical properties and the concomitant nucleosome positions are not just a side product of the given DNA sequence, e.g. that of the genes, but that a mechanical evolution of DNA molecules might have taken place. We first demonstrate the possibility of ...[more]

PMID: 27272176

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