35 results on '"Mirny, Leonid A."'
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2. HiGlass: Web-based Visual Exploration and Analysis of Genome Interaction Maps
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Kerpedjiev, Peter, Lekschas, Fritz, McCallum, Chuck, Dinkla, Kasper, Strobelt, Hendrik, Luber, Jacob M, Ouellette, Scott B, Azhir, Alaleh, Kumar, Nikhil, Hwang, Jeewon, Lee, Soohyun, Alver, Burak H, Pfister, Hanspeter, Park, Peter J, Gehlenborg, Nils, Luber, Jacob M., Ouellette, Scott B., Alver, Burak H., Mirny, Leonid A., Park, Peter J., Abdennur, Nezar Alexander, Mirny, Leonid A, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Abdennur, Nezar Alexander, and Mirny, Leonid A
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0301 basic medicine ,lcsh:QH426-470 ,Computer science ,Chromosome conformation ,Interface (computing) ,Biology ,Genome ,Data type ,User-Computer Interface ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Data visualization ,Hi-C ,Human–computer interaction ,Web application ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,030304 developmental biology ,Internet ,0303 health sciences ,Modalities ,business.industry ,030302 biochemistry & molecular biology ,Chromosome Mapping ,Genomics ,3. Good health ,Visualization ,lcsh:Genetics ,030104 developmental biology ,Open source ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,business ,Software ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
We present HiGlass, an open source visualization tool built on web technologies that provides a rich interface for rapid, multiplex, and multiscale navigation of 2D genomic maps alongside 1D genomic tracks, allowing users to combine various data types, synchronize multiple visualization modalities, and share fully customizable views with others. We demonstrate its utility in exploring different experimental conditions, comparing the results of analyses, and creating interactive snapshots to share with collaborators and the broader public. HiGlass is accessible online at http://higlass.io and is also available as a containerized application that can be run on any platform., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (U01 CA200059), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (R00 HG007583), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (U54 HG007963)
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- 2017
3. Limits of chromosome compaction by loop-extruding motors
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Banigan, Edward J. and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Physics ,Loop (graph theory) ,Materials science ,Cell division ,biology ,QC1-999 ,Condensin ,Compaction ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Chromosome ,Mechanics ,01 natural sciences ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Cell biology ,Loop (topology) ,Mechanism (engineering) ,0103 physical sciences ,biology.protein ,Extrusion ,010306 general physics ,Mitosis - Abstract
During mitosis, human chromosomes are linearly compacted about 1000-fold by loop-extruding motors. Recent experiments have shown that condensins extrude DNA loops but in a “one-sided” manner. This contrasts with existing models, which predict that symmetric, “two-sided” loop extrusion accounts for mitotic chromosome compaction. We explore whether one-sided extrusion, as it is currently seen in experiments, can compact chromosomes by developing a mean-field theoretical model for polymer compaction by motors that actively extrude loops and dynamically turnover. The model establishes a stringent upper bound of only about tenfold for compaction by strictly one-sided extrusion. We confirm this result with stochastic simulations. Thus, strictly one-sided extrusion as it has been observed so far cannot be the sole mechanism of chromosome compaction. However, as shown by the model, other two-sided or effectively two-sided mechanisms can achieve sufficient compaction.
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- 2018
4. Additional file 1: of HiGlass: web-based visual exploration and analysis of genome interaction maps
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Kerpedjiev, Peter, Nezar Abdennur, Lekschas, Fritz, McCallum, Chuck, Dinkla, Kasper, Strobelt, Hendrik, Luber, Jacob, Ouellette, Scott, Alaleh Azhir, Kumar, Nikhil, Jeewon Hwang, Soohyun Lee, Alver, Burak, Pfister, Hanspeter, Mirny, Leonid, Park, Peter, and Gehlenborg, Nils
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Figures S1.â S7. Table S1. Supplementary material, and Supplementary references. (PDF 755 kb)
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- 2018
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5. The 4D nucleome project
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Dekker, Job, Belmont, Andrew S, Guttman, Mitchell, Leshyk, Victor O, Lis, John T, Lomvardas, Stavros, Mirny, Leonid A, O'Shea, Clodagh C, Park, Peter J, Ren, Bing, Politz, Joan C Ritland, Shendure, Jay, Zhong, Sheng, and 4D Nucleome Network
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Cell Nucleus ,Genome ,Information Dissemination ,General Science & Technology ,1.1 Normal biological development and functioning ,Human Genome ,4D Nucleome Network ,Reproducibility of Results ,Molecular ,Genomics ,Biological ,Chromosomes ,Chromatin ,Cell Line ,Molecular Imaging ,Mice ,Spatio-Temporal Analysis ,Underpinning research ,Models ,Genetics ,Animals ,Humans ,Generic health relevance ,Single-Cell Analysis ,Goals - Abstract
The 4D Nucleome Network aims to develop and apply approaches to map the structure and dynamics of the human and mouse genomes in space and time with the goal of gaining deeper mechanistic insights into how the nucleus is organized and functions. The project will develop and benchmark experimental and computational approaches for measuring genome conformation and nuclear organization, and investigate how these contribute to gene regulation and other genome functions. Validated experimental technologies will be combined with biophysical approaches to generate quantitative models of spatial genome organization in different biological states, both in cell populations and in single cells.
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- 2017
6. Organization of the Mitotic Chromosome
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Naumova, Natalia, Zhan, Ye, Lajoie, Bryan R., Dekker, Job, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, Fudenberg, Geoffrey, Mirny, Leonid A, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, Fudenberg, Geoffrey, and Mirny, Leonid A
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Mitotic chromosomes are among the most recognizable structures in the cell, yet for over a century their internal organization remains largely unsolved. We applied chromosome conformation capture methods, 5C and Hi-C, across the cell cycle and revealed two alternative three-dimensional folding states of the human genome. We show that the highly compartmentalized and cell-type-specific organization described previously for non-synchronous cells is restricted to interphase. In metaphase, we identify a homogenous folding state, which is locus-independent, common to all chromosomes, and consistent among cell types, suggesting a general principle of metaphase chromosome organization. Using polymer simulations, we find that metaphase Hi-C data are inconsistent with classic hierarchical models, and is instead best described by a linearly-organized longitudinally compressed array of consecutive chromatin loops., National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (Grant U54CA143874)
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- 2013
7. Different [E1]gene regulation strategies revealed by analysis of binding motifs
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Wunderlich, Zeba and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Binding Sites ,Eukaryotic Cells ,Genome ,Base Sequence ,Gene Expression Regulation ,Models, Genetic ,Prokaryotic Cells ,fungi ,natural sciences ,Article ,Algorithms ,Protein Binding ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Coordinated regulation of gene expression relies on transcription factors (TFs) binding to specific DNA sites. Our large-scale information-theoretical analysis of950 TF-binding motifs demonstrates that prokaryotes and eukaryotes use strikingly different strategies to target TFs to specific genome locations. Although bacterial TFs can recognize a specific DNA site in the genomic background, eukaryotic TFs exhibit widespread, nonfunctional binding and require clustering of sites to achieve specificity. We find support for this mechanism in a range of experimental studies and in our evolutionary analysis of DNA-binding domains. Our systematic characterization of binding motifs provides a quantitative assessment of the differences in transcription regulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
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- 2009
8. Fundamentally different strategies for transcriptional regulation are revealed by information-theoretical analysis of binding motifs
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Mirny, Leonid A. and Wunderlich, Zeba
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Genomics (q-bio.GN) ,Quantitative Biology - Subcellular Processes ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules ,Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN) ,FOS: Biological sciences ,Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) ,Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) ,Quantitative Biology - Genomics ,Quantitative Biology - Molecular Networks ,Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution ,Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC) ,Quantitative Biology - Quantitative Methods ,Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM) - Abstract
To regulate a particular gene, a transcription factor (TF) needs to bind a specific genome location. How is this genome address specified amid the presence of ~10^6-10^9 decoy sites? Our analysis of 319 known TF binding motifs clearly demonstrates that prokaryotes and eukaryotes use strikingly different strategies to target TFs to specific genome locations; eukaryotic TFs exhibit widespread nonfunctional binding and require clustering of sites in regulatory regions for specificity., 4 pages, 2 figures, expanded Supplementary Methods, Figures and Tables
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- 2008
9. The long reach of DNA sequence heterogeneity in diffusive processes
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Slutsky, Michael, Kardar, Mehran, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Quantitative Biology::Subcellular Processes ,Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules ,Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) ,FOS: Biological sciences ,Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) ,Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) ,Physics - Biological Physics ,Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks ,Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter - Abstract
Many biological processes involve one dimensional diffusion over a correlated inhomogeneous energy landscape with a correlation length $\xi_c$. Typical examples are specific protein target location on DNA, nucleosome repositioning, or DNA translocation through a nanopore, in all cases with $\xi_c\approx$ 10 nm. We investigate such transport processes by the mean first passage time (MFPT) formalism, and find diffusion times which exhibit strong sample to sample fluctuations. For a a displacement $N$, the average MFPT is diffusive, while its standard deviation over the ensemble of energy profiles scales as $N^{3/2}$ with a large prefactor. Fluctuations are thus dominant for displacements smaller than a characteristic $N_c \gg \xi_c$: typical values are much less than the mean, and governed by an anomalous diffusion rule. Potential biological consequences of such random walks, composed of rapid scans in the vicinity of favorable energy valleys and occasional jumps to further valleys, is discussed.
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- 2003
10. Evolutionary conservation of the folding nucleus
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Mirny, Leonid and Shakhnovich, Eugene
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Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) ,Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) ,Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) ,Physics - Chemical Physics ,FOS: Biological sciences ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Physics - Biological Physics ,Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics ,Quantitative Biology (q-bio) ,Quantitative Biology - Abstract
In this Communication we present statistical analysis of conservation profiles in families of homologous sequences for nine proteins whose folding nucleus was determined by protein engineering methods. We show that in all but one protein (AcP) folding nucleus residues are significantly more conserved than the rest of the protein. Two aspects of our study are especially important: 1) grouping of amino acids into classes according to their physical-chemical properties and 2) proper normalization of amino acid probabilities that reflects the fact that evolutionary pressure to conserve some amino acid types may itself affect concentration of various amino acid types in protein families. Neglect of any of those two factors may make physical and biological ``signals'' from conservation profiles disappear., Comment: submitted to Journal of Molecular Biology
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- 2000
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11. Hematopoietic Stem Cells Are the Major Source of Multilineage Hematopoiesis in Adult Animals
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Samik Upadhaya, Connie J. Eaves, Sonja Babovic, Joji Fujisaki, Boris Reizis, Leonid A. Mirny, Jue Feng, Lei Ding, Yonit Lavin, David J.H.F. Knapp, Miriam Merad, Anton Goloborodko, Catherine M. Sawai, Colleen M. Lau, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Goloborodko, Anton, and Mirny, Leonid A
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Transgene ,Immunology ,hemic and immune systems ,Biology ,Cell biology ,Transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Haematopoiesis ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Infectious Diseases ,Immune system ,Cytokine ,Interferon ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Progenitor cell ,Stem cell ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) sustain long-term reconstitution of hematopoiesis in transplantation recipients, yet their role in the endogenous steady-state hematopoiesis remains unclear. In particular, recent studies suggested that HSCs provide a relatively minor contribution to immune cell development in adults. We directed transgene expression in a fraction of HSCs that maintained reconstituting activity during serial transplantations. Inducible genetic labeling showed that transgene-expressing HSCs gave rise to other phenotypic HSCs, confirming their top position in the differentiation hierarchy. The labeled HSCs rapidly contributed to committed progenitors of all lineages and to mature myeloid cells and lymphocytes, but not to B-1a cells or tissue macrophages. Importantly, labeled HSCs gave rise to more than two-thirds of all myeloid cells and platelets in adult mice, and this contribution could be accelerated by an induced interferon response. Thus, classically defined HSCs maintain immune cell development in the steady state and during systemic cytokine responses.
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- 2016
12. The 3D Genome as Moderator of Chromosomal Communication
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Job Dekker, Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, and Mirny, Leonid A
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0301 basic medicine ,CCCTC-Binding Factor ,Condensin ,Mitosis ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Genome ,Chromosomes ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,X Chromosome Inactivation ,Animals ,Humans ,Enhancer ,Gene ,Genomic organization ,Adenosine Triphosphatases ,Genetics ,Cohesin ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,Chromosome ,3. Good health ,Chromatin ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Repressor Proteins ,030104 developmental biology ,Multiprotein Complexes ,biology.protein ,Female - Abstract
Proper expression of genes requires communication with their regulatory elements that can be located elsewhere along the chromosome. The physics of chromatin fibers imposes a range of constraints on such communication. The molecular and biophysical mechanisms by which chromosomal communication is established, or prevented, have become a topic of intense study, and important roles for the spatial organization of chromosomes are being discovered. Here we present a view of the interphase 3D genome characterized by extensive physical compartmentalization and insulation on the one hand and facilitated long-range interactions on the other. We propose the existence of topological machines dedicated to set up and to exploit a 3D genome organization to both promote and censor communication along and between chromosomes., National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) (Grant R01 HG003143), National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) (Grant U54 HG007010), National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) (Grant U01 HG007910), National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (Grant U54 CA193419), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U54 DK107980), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant U01 DA 040588), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.) (Grant R01 GM 112720), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.) (Grant U01 R01 AI 117839)
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- 2016
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13. Genome-wide Maps of Nuclear Lamina Interactions in Single Human Cells
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Kees Jalink, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Bryan R. Lajoie, Sandra S. de Vries, Magda Bienko, Bas van Steensel, Siddharth S. Dey, Alexander van Oudenaarden, Carolyn A. de Graaf, Jop Kind, Leonid A. Mirny, Maxim Imakaev, Mario Amendola, Ye Zhan, Job Dekker, Leila Nahidiazar, Ludo Pagie, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Fudenberg, Geoffrey, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, Mirny, Leonid A, Approches génétiques intégrées et nouvelles thérapies pour les maladies rares (INTEGRARE), and Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay-Généthon
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[SDV.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology ,Heterochromatin ,[SDV.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology ,Research Support ,Genome ,Article ,Chromosomes ,Fluorescence ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Cell Line ,N.I.H ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ,Single-cell analysis ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Journal Article ,Humans ,Non-U.S. Gov't ,Interphase ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,In Situ Hybridization ,030304 developmental biology ,Genetics ,0303 health sciences ,Tumor ,Nuclear Lamina ,biology ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ,Extramural ,[SDV.MHEP.HEM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Hematology ,Chromatin ,3. Good health ,Histone ,Evolutionary biology ,biology.protein ,Nuclear lamina ,Single-Cell Analysis ,Ploidy ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
Mammalian interphase chromosomes interact with the nuclear lamina (NL) through hundreds of large lamina-associated domains (LADs). We report a method to map NL contacts genome-wide in single human cells. Analysis of nearly 400 maps reveals a core architecture consisting of gene-poor LADs that contact the NL with high cell-to-cell consistency, interspersed by LADs with more variable NL interactions. The variable contacts tend to be cell-type specific and are more sensitive to changes in genome ploidy than the consistent contacts. Single-cell maps indicate that NL contacts involve multivalent interactions over hundreds of kilobases. Moreover, we observe extensive intra-chromosomal coordination of NL contacts, even over tens of megabases. Such coordinated loci exhibit preferential interactions as detected by Hi-C. Finally, the consistency of NL contacts is inversely linked to gene activity in single cells and correlates positively with the heterochromatic histone modification H3K9me3. These results highlight fundamental principles of single-cell chromatin organization., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant R01 GM114190), National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) (Grant R01 HG003143)
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- 2015
14. Host proteostasis modulates influenza evolution
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Sean M. McHugh, Leonid A. Mirny, Vincent L. Butty, Angela M Phillips, Anna I. Ponomarenko, Emmanuel E Nekongo, Stuart S. Levine, Matthew D. Shoulders, Yu-Shan Lin, Luna O Gonzalez, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Phillips, Angela Marie, Gonzalez, Luna O., Nekongo, Emmanuel E, Ponomarenko, Anna, Butty, Vincent L G, Levine, Stuart S., Mirny, Leonid A, and Shoulders, Matthew D.
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0301 basic medicine ,Mutation rate ,Viral protein ,QH301-705.5 ,Science ,selection ,Genomics ,Hsp90 ,medicine.disease_cause ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Madin Darby Canine Kidney Cells ,Evolution, Molecular ,mutational landscape ,Viral Proteins ,03 medical and health sciences ,Dogs ,heat shock response ,Biochemistry and Chemical Biology ,None ,Evolution of influenza ,medicine ,Animals ,Selection, Genetic ,Biology (General) ,Genetics ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,biology ,Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype ,General Neuroscience ,RNA ,RNA virus ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,3. Good health ,030104 developmental biology ,Proteostasis ,heat shock factor 1 ,Genomics and Evolutionary Biology ,Viral evolution ,Host-Pathogen Interactions ,Mutation ,Medicine ,Genetic Fitness ,Research Article - Abstract
Predicting and constraining RNA virus evolution require understanding the molecular factors that define the mutational landscape accessible to these pathogens. RNA viruses typically have high mutation rates, resulting in frequent production of protein variants with compromised biophysical properties. Their evolution is necessarily constrained by the consequent challenge to protein folding and function. We hypothesized that host proteostasis mechanisms may be significant determinants of the fitness of viral protein variants, serving as a critical force shaping viral evolution. Here, we test that hypothesis by propagating influenza in host cells displaying chemically-controlled, divergent proteostasis environments. We find that both the nature of selection on the influenza genome and the accessibility of specific mutational trajectories are significantly impacted by host proteostasis. These findings provide new insights into features of host-pathogen interactions that shape viral evolution, and into the potential design of host proteostasis-targeted antiviral therapeutics that are refractory to resistance., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Award 1DP2GM119162), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant P30-ES002109)
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- 2017
15. Oncogene-triggered suppression of DNA repair leads to DNA instability in cancer
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Julia A. Yaglom, Michael Y. Sherman, Christopher D. McFarland, Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21 ,Senescence ,Genome instability ,Mice, 129 Strain ,Time Factors ,senescence ,DNA Copy Number Variations ,DNA Repair ,Receptor, ErbB-2 ,oncogenes ,DNA repair ,DNA damage ,Gene Dosage ,Breast Neoplasms ,Mice, Transgenic ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Genomic Instability ,Histones ,03 medical and health sciences ,Her2 ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cell Line, Tumor ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded ,Cancer epigenetics ,Cellular Senescence ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Mutation ,Antibiotics, Antineoplastic ,DNA repair protein XRCC4 ,3. Good health ,Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,HEK293 Cells ,Oncology ,Doxorubicin ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Cancer research ,Female ,DNA Damage Response ,DNA mismatch repair ,Signal Transduction ,Research Paper - Abstract
DNA instability is an important contributor to cancer development. Previously, defects in the chromosome segregation and excessive DNA double strand breaks due to the replication or oxidative stresses were implicated in DNA instability in cancer. Here, we demonstrate that DNA instability can directly result from the oncogene-induced senescence signaling. Expression of the activated form of Her2 oncogene, NeuT, in immortalized breast epithelial cells led to downregulation of the major DNA repair factor histone H2AX and a number of other components of the HR and NHEJ double strand DNA breaks repair pathways. H2AX expression was regulated at the transcriptional level via a senescence pathway involving p21-mediated regulation of CDK and Rb1. The p21-dependent downregulation of H2AX was seen both in cell culture and the MMTV-neu mouse model of Her2-positive breast cancer. Importantly, downregulation of H2AX upon Her2/NeuT expression impaired repair of double strand DNA breaks. This impairment resulted in both increased DNA instability in the form of somatic copy number alterations, and in increased sensitivity to the chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin. Overall, these findings indicate that the Her2/NeuT oncogene signaling directly potentiates DNA instability and increases sensitivity to DNA damaging treatments, National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH CA081244), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH R21CA178563), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH 5U54CA143874)
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- 2014
16. ZFX Controls Propagation and Prevents Differentiation of Acute T-Lymphoblastic and Myeloid Leukemia
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Leonid A. Mirny, Haiyan Pan, Ji Zhang, Apostolos Klinakis, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jack E. Dixon, Matthew R. Smith-Raska, Michael Churchill, Jose M. Esquilin, Boris Reizis, Colleen M. Lau, Teresita L. Arenzana, Stuart P. Weisberg, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Myeloid ,Cellular differentiation ,Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors ,Notch signaling pathway ,Biology ,Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc ,Mice ,Cell Line, Tumor ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,medicine ,Animals ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Cell Proliferation ,Regulation of gene expression ,Acute leukemia ,Receptors, Notch ,Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic ,PTEN Phosphohydrolase ,Hematopoietic stem cell ,Myeloid leukemia ,Cell Differentiation ,medicine.disease ,Isocitrate Dehydrogenase ,Clone Cells ,Mitochondria ,Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ,Leukemia ,Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ,Phenotype ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,Cancer research - Abstract
SummaryTumor-propagating cells in acute leukemia maintain a stem/progenitor-like immature phenotype and proliferative capacity. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute T-lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) originate from different lineages through distinct oncogenic events such as MLL fusions and Notch signaling, respectively. We found that Zfx, a transcription factor that controls hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal, controls the initiation and maintenance of AML caused by MLL-AF9 fusion and of T-ALL caused by Notch1 activation. In both leukemia types, Zfx prevents differentiation and activates gene sets characteristic of immature cells of the respective lineages. In addition, endogenous Zfx contributes to gene induction and transformation by Myc overexpression in myeloid progenitors. Key Zfx target genes include the mitochondrial enzymes Ptpmt1 and Idh2, whose overexpression partially rescues the propagation of Zfx-deficient AML. These results show that distinct leukemia types maintain their undifferentiated phenotype and self-renewal by exploiting a common stem-cell-related genetic regulator.
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17. Isoform-Specific Expression and Feedback Regulation of E Protein TCF4 Control Dendritic Cell Lineage Specification
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Hans Haecker, Margaret E. Warren, Boris Reizis, Anna Bunin, Michele Ceribelli, Ioanna Tiniakou, Louis M. Staudt, Sandra Nakandakari Higa, Lucja T. Grajkowska, Leonid A. Mirny, Colleen M. Lau, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, and Mirny, Leonid A
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0301 basic medicine ,Gene isoform ,Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ,Immunology ,Cell fate determination ,Biology ,Article ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,Transcription Factor 4 ,0302 clinical medicine ,Downregulation and upregulation ,Animals ,Protein Isoforms ,Immunology and Allergy ,Cell Lineage ,Enhancer ,Transcription factor ,Mice, Knockout ,Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Cell Differentiation ,hemic and immune systems ,Dendritic Cells ,Dendritic cell ,TCF4 ,Flow Cytometry ,Molecular biology ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,Transcriptome ,CD8 ,030215 immunology - Abstract
The cell fate decision between interferon-producing plasmacytoid DC (pDC) and antigen-presenting classical DC (cDC) is controlled by the E protein transcription factor TCF4 (E2-2). We report that TCF4 comprises two transcriptional isoforms, both of which are required for optimal pDC development in vitro. The long Tcf4 isoform is expressed specifically in pDCs, and its deletion in mice impaired pDCs development and led to the expansion of non-canonical CD8+ cDCs. The expression of Tcf4 commenced in progenitors and was further upregulated in pDCs, correlating with stage-specific activity of multiple enhancer elements. A conserved enhancer downstream of Tcf4 was required for its upregulation during pDC differentiation, revealing a positive feedback loop. The expression of Tcf4 and the resulting pDC differentiation were selectively sensitive to the inhibition of enhancer-binding BET protein activity. Thus, lineage-specifying function of E proteins is facilitated by lineage-specific isoform expression and by BET-dependent feedback regulation through distal regulatory elements.
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- 2016
18. Formation of Chromosomal Domains by Loop Extrusion
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Maxim Imakaev, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Anton Goloborodko, Carolyn Lu, Nezar Abdennur, Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Fudenberg, Geoffrey, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, Lu, Carolyn, Goloborodko, Anton, Abdennur, Nezar Alexander, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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0301 basic medicine ,Models, Molecular ,CCCTC-Binding Factor ,Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone ,Cell Cycle Proteins ,Biology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Chromosomes ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Chromosomal Organization ,Cell Cycle Protein ,Mitosis ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Insulator Element ,Sequence Deletion ,030304 developmental biology ,Genetics ,Physics ,0303 health sciences ,Cohesin ,3. Good health ,030104 developmental biology ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,CTCF ,Biophysics ,Nucleic Acid Conformation ,Extrusion ,Chromatin Loop ,Insulator Elements ,Interphase ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Topologically associating domains (TADs) are fundamental structural and functional building blocks of human interphase chromosomes, yet the mechanisms of TAD formation remain unclear. Here, we propose that loop extrusion underlies TAD formation. In this process, cis-acting loop-extruding factors, likely cohesins, form progressively larger loops but stall at TAD boundaries due to interactions with boundary proteins, including CTCF. Using polymer simulations, we show that this model produces TADs and finer-scale features of Hi-C data. Each TAD emerges from multiple loops dynamically formed through extrusion, contrary to typical illustrations of single static loops. Loop extrusion both explains diverse experimental observations—including the preferential orientation of CTCF motifs, enrichments of architectural proteins at TAD boundaries, and boundary deletion experiments—and makes specific predictions for the depletion of CTCF versus cohesin. Finally, loop extrusion has potentially far-ranging consequences for processes such as enhancer-promoter interactions, orientation-specific chromosomal looping, and compaction of mitotic chromosomes., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (grant R01 GM114190), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (grant U54 DK107980), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (grant R01 G003143), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (1504942)
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- 2016
19. Compaction and segregation of sister chromatids via active loop extrusion
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Maksim Viktorovich Imakaev, Anton Goloborodko, Leonid A. Mirny, John F. Marko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Goloborodko, Anton, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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0301 basic medicine ,Condensin ,Chromosome segregation ,0302 clinical medicine ,Chromosome Segregation ,chromosome ,Biology (General) ,Adenosine Triphosphatases ,Genetics ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,General Neuroscience ,030302 biochemistry & molecular biology ,General Medicine ,Biophysics and Structural Biology ,3. Good health ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Folding (chemistry) ,Meiosis ,Genes and Chromosomes ,Medicine ,Chromatid ,Interphase ,simulations ,Research Article ,DNA Replication ,QH301-705.5 ,polymer ,Science ,Mitosis ,Chromatids ,Models, Biological ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,None ,Sister chromatids ,Computer Simulation ,compaction ,030304 developmental biology ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Chromosome ,molecular dynamics ,030104 developmental biology ,Multiprotein Complexes ,biology.protein ,Biophysics ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
The mechanism by which chromatids and chromosomes are segregated during mitosis and meiosis is a major puzzle of biology and biophysics. Using polymer simulations of chromosome dynamics, we show that a single mechanism of loop extrusion by condensins can robustly compact, segregate and disentangle chromosomes, arriving at individualized chromatids with morphology observed in vivo. Our model resolves the paradox of topological simplification concomitant with chromosome 'condensation', and explains how enzymes a few nanometers in size are able to control chromosome geometry and topology at micron length scales. We suggest that loop extrusion is a universal mechanism of genome folding that mediates functional interactions during interphase and compacts chromosomes during mitosis., National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant DMR-1206868), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant MCB-1022117), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Grant GM105847), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Grant CA193419), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH grant GM114190), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH grant R01HG003143), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH grant DK107980)
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20. Using genome-wide measurements for computational prediction of SH2–peptide interactions
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Leonid A. Mirny, Zeba Wunderlich, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Models, Molecular ,Phosphopeptides ,Protein domain ,Chemical ,Genomics ,Peptide ,Computational biology ,Biology ,SH2 domain ,Genome ,Domain (software engineering) ,src Homology Domains ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Models ,Information and Computing Sciences ,Protein Interaction Mapping ,Genetics ,Phosphotyrosine ,030304 developmental biology ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,0303 health sciences ,Molecular ,Computational Biology ,Biological Sciences ,3. Good health ,Models, Chemical ,chemistry ,Biochemistry ,Protein folding ,Methods to investigate protein–protein interactions ,Environmental Sciences ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Developmental Biology - Abstract
Peptide-recognition modules (PRMs) are used throughout biology to mediate protein–protein interactions, and many PRMs are members of large protein domain families. Recent genome-wide measurements describe networks of peptide–PRM interactions. In these networks, very similar PRMs recognize distinct sets of peptides, raising the question of how peptide-recognition specificity is achieved using similar protein domains. The analysis of individual protein complex structures often gives answers that are not easily applicable to other members of the same PRM family. Bioinformatics-based approaches, one the other hand, may be difficult to interpret physically. Here we integrate structural information with a large, quantitative data set of SH2 domain–peptide interactions to study the physical origin of domain–peptide specificity. We develop an energy model, inspired by protein folding, based on interactions between the amino-acid positions in the domain and peptide. We use this model to successfully predict which SH2 domains and peptides interact and uncover the positions in each that are important for specificity. The energy model is general enough that it can be applied to other members of the SH2 family or to new peptides, and the cross-validation results suggest that these energy calculations will be useful for predicting binding interactions. It can also be adapted to study other PRM families, predict optimal peptides for a given SH2 domain, or study other biological interactions, e.g. protein–DNA interactions., National Institutes of Health. National Centers for Biomedical Computing (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (grant U54LM008748)
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- 2009
21. Chromosome Compaction by Active Loop Extrusion
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John F. Marko, Leonid A. Mirny, Anton Goloborodko, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Goloborodko, Anton, and Mirny, Leonid A
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0301 basic medicine ,Loop (graph theory) ,Cell division ,Biophysics ,Compaction ,Biology ,Chromosomes ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,Computer Simulation ,Dynamic array ,Steady state ,Models, Genetic ,Degree (graph theory) ,New and Notable ,Chromosome ,Chromatin ,3. Good health ,Crystallography ,030104 developmental biology ,Nucleic Acid Conformation ,Biological system ,Algorithms ,Software ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
During cell division, chromosomes are compacted in length by more than a 100-fold. A wide range of experiments demonstrated that in their compacted state, mammalian chromosomes form arrays of closely stacked consecutive ∼100 kb loops. The mechanism underlying the active process of chromosome compaction into a stack of loops is unknown. Here we test the hypothesis that chromosomes are compacted by enzymatic machines that actively extrude chromatin loops. When such loop-extruding factors (LEF) bind to chromosomes, they p rogressively bridge sites that are further away along the chromosome, thus extruding a loop. We demonstrate that collective action of LEFs leads to formation of a dynamic array of consecutive loops. Simulations and an analytically solved model identify two distinct steady states: a sparse state, where loops are highly dynamic but provide little compaction; and a dense state, where there are more stable loops and dramatic chromosome compaction. We find that human chromosomes operate at the border of the dense steady state. Our analysis also shows how the macroscopic characteristics of the loop array are determined by the microscopic properties of LEFs and their abundance. When the number of LEFs are used that match experimentally based estimates, the model can quantitatively reproduce the average loop length, the degree of compaction, and the general loop-array morphology of compact human chromosomes. Our study demonstrates that efficient chromosome compaction can be achieved solely by an active loop-extrusion process., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant GM114190), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant R01HG003143)
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- 2015
22. Super-resolution imaging reveals distinct chromatin folding for different epigenetic states
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Alistair N. Boettiger, Chao-ting Wu, Bogdan Bintu, Maxim Imakaev, Brian J. Beliveau, Jeffrey R. Moffitt, Xiaowei Zhuang, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Siyuan Wang, Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Fudenberg, Geoffrey, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, and Mirny, Leonid A
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0301 basic medicine ,Histone-modifying enzymes ,Transcription, Genetic ,Polycomb-Group Proteins ,Biology ,Epigenetic Repression ,Article ,Cell Line ,Epigenesis, Genetic ,03 medical and health sciences ,Polycomb-group proteins ,Nucleosome ,Histone code ,Animals ,Scaffold/matrix attachment region ,Chromosome Positioning ,ChIA-PET ,Genetics ,Multidisciplinary ,Genome ,Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly ,Chromatin ,030104 developmental biology ,Drosophila melanogaster ,Fractals ,Evolutionary biology ,Bivalent chromatin - Abstract
Metazoan genomes are spatially organized at multiple scales, from packaging of DNA around individual nucleosomes to segregation of whole chromosomes into distinct territories1–5. At the intermediate scale of kilobases to megabases, which encompasses the sizes of genes, gene clusters and regulatory domains, the three-dimensional (3D) organization of DNA is implicated in multiple gene regulatory mechanisms2–4,6–8, but understanding this organization remains a challenge. At this scale, the genome is partitioned into domains of different epigenetic states that are essential for regulating gene expression9–11. Here, we investigate the 3D organization of chromatin in different epigenetic states using super-resolution imaging. We classified genomic domains in Drosophila cells into transcriptionally active, inactive, or Polycomb-repressed states and observed distinct chromatin organizations for each state. Remarkably, all three types of chromatin domains exhibit power-law scaling between their physical sizes in 3D and their domain lengths, but each type has a distinct scaling exponent. Polycomb-repressed chromatin shows the densest packing and most intriguing folding behaviour in which packing density increases with domain length. Distinct from the self-similar organization displayed by transcriptionally active and inactive chromatin, the Polycomb-repressed domains are characterized by a high degree of chromatin intermixing within the domain. Moreover, compared to inactive domains, Polycomb-repressed domains spatially exclude neighbouring active chromatin to a much stronger degree. Computational modelling and knockdown experiments suggest that reversible chromatin interactions mediated by Polycomb-group proteins plays an important role in these unique packaging properties of the repressed chromatin. Taken together, our super-resolution images reveal distinct chromatin packaging for different epigenetic states at the kilobase-to-megabase scale, a length scale that is directly relevant to genome regulation.
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- 2015
23. Effects of topological constraints on globular polymers
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Maxim Imakaev, Konstantine Tchourine, Sergei Nechaev, Leonid A. Mirny, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, Mirny, Leonid A., Department of Physics [MIT Cambridge], Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology [New York], New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU)-New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (LPI RAS), and Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS)
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Surface (mathematics) ,Thermodynamic equilibrium ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter ,Topology ,01 natural sciences ,Fractal dimension ,03 medical and health sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,Physics - Biological Physics ,010306 general physics ,030304 developmental biology ,Physics ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,0303 health sciences ,Hierarchy (mathematics) ,Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) ,General Chemistry ,Polymer ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules ,chemistry ,Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) ,Globular cluster ,FOS: Biological sciences ,Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) - Abstract
Topological constraints can affect both equilibrium and dynamic properties of polymer systems and can play a role in the organization of chromosomes. Despite many theoretical studies, the effects of topological constraints on the equilibrium state of a single compact polymer have not been systematically studied. Here we use simulations to address this longstanding problem. We find that sufficiently long unknotted polymers differ from knotted ones in the spatial and topological states of their subchains. The unknotted globule has subchains that are mostly unknotted and form asymptotically compact RG(s) ∼ s1/3 crumples. However, crumples display a high fractal dimension of the surface db = 2.8, forming excessive contacts and interpenetrating each other. We conclude that this topologically constrained equilibrium state resembles a conjectured crumpled globule [Grosberg et al., Journal de Physique, 1988, 49, 2095], but differs from its idealized hierarchy of self-similar, isolated and compact crumples., MIT-France Seed Fund, National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (MIT, (U54CA143874)), National Research University Higher School of Economics (Program for Basic Research)
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- 2014
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24. Exploring the three-dimensional organization of genomes: interpreting chromatin interaction data
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Marc A. Marti-Renom, Leonid A. Mirny, Job Dekker, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Computational biology ,Biology ,Genome ,Article ,Chromosome conformation capture ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Genetics ,Animals ,Chromosomes, Human ,Humans ,Epigenetics ,Molecular Biology ,Genetics (clinical) ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Models, Genetic ,Extramural ,Genome, Human ,Chromosome Mapping ,Epistasis, Genetic ,Human genetics ,Chromatin ,3. Good health ,Nucleic Acid Conformation ,Human genome ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
How DNA is organized in three dimensions inside the cell nucleus and how this affects the ways in which cells access, read and interpret genetic information are among the longest standing questions in cell biology. Using newly developed molecular, genomic and computational approaches based on the chromosome conformation capture technology (such as 3C, 4C, 5C and Hi-C), the spatial organization of genomes is being explored at unprecedented resolution. Interpreting the increasingly large chromatin interaction data sets is now posing novel challenges. Here we describe several types of statistical and computational approaches that have recently been developed to analyse chromatin interaction data., National Institutes of Health (U.S.), National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) (HG003143), National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) (HG003143-06S1), W. M. Keck Foundation, Spain. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (BFU2010-19310/BMC), Human Frontier Science Program (Strasbourg, France) (RGP0044/2011), European Union (BLUEPRINT project (EU FP7 grant agreement 282510)), National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (Physical Sciences Oncology Center at MIT, U54CA143874)
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- 2013
25. History of chromosome rearrangements reflects the spatial organization of yeast chromosomes
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Mikhail S. Gelfand, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Ekaterina Khrameeva, Leonid A. Mirny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Fudenberg, Geoffrey, and Mirny, Leonid A
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Gene Rearrangement ,0301 basic medicine ,Genetics ,biology ,DNA repair ,Saccharomyces cerevisiae ,Chromosome ,biology.organism_classification ,Biochemistry ,Genome ,Article ,Computer Science Applications ,Chromatin ,Telomere ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,Yeasts ,Centromere ,Chromosomes, Fungal ,Molecular Biology ,Algorithms ,DNA - Abstract
Three-dimensional (3D) organization of genomes affects critical cellular processes such as transcription, replication, and deoxyribo nucleic acid (DNA) repair. While previous studies have investigated the natural role, the 3D organization plays in limiting a possible set of genomic rearrangements following DNA repair, the influence of specific organizational principles on this process, particularly over longer evolutionary time scales, remains relatively unexplored. In budding yeast S.cerevisiae, chromosomes are organized into a Rabl-like configuration, with clustered centromeres and telomeres tethered to the nuclear periphery. Hi-C data for S.cerevisiae show that a consequence of this Rabl-like organization is that regions equally distant from centromeres are more frequently in contact with each other, between arms of both the same and different chromosomes. Here, we detect rearrangement events in Saccharomyces species using an automatic approach, and observe increased rearrangement frequency between regions with higher contact frequencies. Together, our results underscore how specific principles of 3D chromosomal organization can influence evolutionary events., National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant GM114190)
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- 2016
26. Three-Dimensional Genome Architecture Influences Partner Selection for Chromosomal Translocations in Human Disease
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Vineeta Agarwala, Jesse M. Engreitz, Leonid A. Mirny, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Engreitz, Jesse Michael, Agarwala, Vineeta, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Epigenomics ,Chromosome engineering ,Chromosome Structure and Function ,Chromosome Breakpoints ,lcsh:Medicine ,Chromosomal translocation ,Chromosomal rearrangement ,Biology ,Genome ,Chromosomes ,Translocation, Genetic ,03 medical and health sciences ,Chromosomal Disorders ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neoplasms ,Molecular Cell Biology ,Genetics ,Cancer Genetics ,Humans ,lcsh:Science ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Chromosome Biology ,Genome, Human ,lcsh:R ,Chromosome ,DNA structure ,Computational Biology ,Human Genetics ,Genomics ,Human genetics ,Chromatin ,3. Good health ,Macromolecular structure analysis ,Organ Specificity ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Translocations ,Human genome ,lcsh:Q ,Epigenetics ,Research Article - Abstract
Chromosomal translocations are frequent features of cancer genomes that contribute to disease progression. These rearrangements result from formation and illegitimate repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), a process that requires spatial colocalization of chromosomal breakpoints. The “contact first” hypothesis suggests that translocation partners colocalize in the nuclei of normal cells, prior to rearrangement. It is unclear, however, the extent to which spatial interactions based on three-dimensional genome architecture contribute to chromosomal rearrangements in human disease. Here we intersect Hi-C maps of three-dimensional chromosome conformation with collections of 1,533 chromosomal translocations from cancer and germline genomes. We show that many translocation-prone pairs of regions genome-wide, including the cancer translocation partners BCR-ABL and MYC-IGH, display elevated Hi-C contact frequencies in normal human cells. Considering tissue specificity, we find that translocation breakpoints reported in human hematologic malignancies have higher Hi-C contact frequencies in lymphoid cells than those reported in sarcomas and epithelial tumors. However, translocations from multiple tissue types show significant correlation with Hi-C contact frequencies, suggesting that both tissue-specific and universal features of chromatin structure contribute to chromosomal alterations. Our results demonstrate that three-dimensional genome architecture shapes the landscape of rearrangements directly observed in human disease and establish Hi-C as a key method for dissecting these effects., National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) (grant T32 HG002295), United States. Dept. of Defense (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program), Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.) (grant 5T32 GM008313), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.) (Medical Scientist Training Program)
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- 2012
27. Higher-order chromatin structure: bridging physics and biology
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Geoffrey Fudenberg, Leonid A. Mirny, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Fudenberg, Geoffrey, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Genetics ,Physics ,Cell Nucleus ,Models, Molecular ,Computational biology ,Article ,Chromatin ,Chromosome conformation capture ,Higher Order Chromatin Structure ,Chromosomal Organization ,Genetic Loci ,Polymer physics ,Animals ,Humans ,Interphase ,Developmental Biology ,Chromatin Fiber - Abstract
Advances in microscopy and genomic techniques have provided new insight into spatial chromatin organization inside of the nucleus. In particular, chromosome conformation capture data has highlighted the relevance of polymer physics for high-order chromatin organization. In this context, we review basic polymer states, discuss how an appropriate polymer model can be determined from experimental data, and examine the success and limitations of various polymer models of higher-order interphase chromatin organization. By taking into account topological constraints acting on the chromatin fiber, recently developed polymer models of interphase chromatin can reproduce the observed scaling of distances between genomic loci, chromosomal territories, and probabilities of contacts between loci measured by chromosome conformation capture methods. Polymer models provide a framework for the interpretation of experimental data as ensembles of conformations rather than collections of loops, and will be crucial for untangling functional implications of chromosomal organization., National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (MIT, (U54CA143874))
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28. Bridging the resolution gap in structural modeling of 3D genome organization
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Marc A. Marti-Renom, Leonid A. Mirny, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Models, Molecular ,Macromolecular Assemblies ,Bridging (networking) ,Biophysics ,Genomics ,Computational biology ,Review ,Biology ,Genome ,Biophysics Simulations ,Chromosomes ,Structural genomics ,Chromosome conformation capture ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Genetics ,Humans ,Molecular Biology ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Genomic organization ,Ecology ,Models, Genetic ,Chromosome Biology ,Computational Biology ,Chromatin ,Computational Theory and Mathematics ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,Modeling and Simulation ,Polymer physics ,Structural Genomics - Abstract
Over the last decade, and especially after the advent of fluorescent in situ hybridization imaging and chromosome conformation capture methods, the availability of experimental data on genome three-dimensional organization has dramatically increased. We now have access to unprecedented details of how genomes organize within the interphase nucleus. Development of new computational approaches to leverage this data has already resulted in the first three-dimensional structures of genomic domains and genomes. Such approaches expand our knowledge of the chromatin folding principles, which has been classically studied using polymer physics and molecular simulations. Our outlook describes computational approaches for integrating experimental data with polymer physics, thereby bridging the resolution gap for structural determination of genomes and genomic domains., Spain. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (BFU2010-19310), National Cancer Institute (U.S.), David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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- 2011
29. The fractal globule as a model of chromatin architecture in the cell
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Leonid A. Mirny, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Models, Molecular ,Protein Folding ,Protein Conformation ,Biophysics ,conformational capture ,Biology ,chromosome territories ,Bioinformatics ,Article ,Chromatin ,Fractal ,Protein structure ,Fractals ,Genetics ,fractal globule ,chromatin ,Chromosomes, Human ,Humans ,Protein folding ,Statistical physics - Abstract
The fractal globule is a compact polymer state that emerges during polymer condensation as a result of topological constraints which prevent one region of the chain from passing across another one. This long-lived intermediate state was introduced in 1988 (Grosberg et al. 1988) and has not been observed in experiments or simulations until recently (Lieberman-Aiden et al. 2009). Recent characterization of human chromatin using a novel chromosome conformational capture technique brought the fractal globule into the spotlight as a structural model of human chromosome on the scale of up to 10 Mb (Lieberman-Aiden et al. 2009). Here, we present the concept of the fractal globule, comparing it to other states of a polymer and focusing on its properties relevant for the biophysics of chromatin. We then discuss properties of the fractal globule that make it an attractive model for chromatin organization inside a cell. Next, we connect the fractal globule to recent studies that emphasize topological constraints as a primary factor driving formation of chromosomal territories. We discuss how theoretical predictions, made on the basis of the fractal globule model, can be tested experimentally. Finally, we discuss whether fractal globule architecture can be relevant for chromatin packing in other organisms such as yeast and bacteria., National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
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- 2011
30. Hi-C: A Method to Study the Three-dimensional Architecture of Genomes
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Louise Williams, Nynke L. van Berkum, Leonid A. Mirny, Maxim Imakaev, Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Job Dekker, Eric S. Lander, Andreas Gnirke, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering, Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, Mirny, Leonid A., and Lander, Eric S.
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General Chemical Engineering ,Issue 39 ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Genome ,Chromosomes ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Chromosome conformation capture ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Illumina Paired End sequencing ,polymer physics ,Enhancer ,Chromosome Positioning ,ChIA-PET ,030304 developmental biology ,Genomic organization ,chromatin structure ,Genetics ,0303 health sciences ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,General Neuroscience ,Chromosome ,DNA ,Genomics ,Chromatin ,Cellular Biology ,Nucleic Acid Conformation ,Human genome ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
The three-dimensional folding of chromosomes compartmentalizes the genome and and can bring distant functional elements, such as promoters and enhancers, into close spatial proximity (2-6). Deciphering the relationship between chromosome organization and genome activity will aid in understanding genomic processes, like transcription and replication. However, little is known about how chromosomes fold. Microscopy is unable to distinguish large numbers of loci simultaneously or at high resolution. To date, the detection of chromosomal interactions using chromosome conformation capture (3C) and its subsequent adaptations required the choice of a set of target loci, making genome-wide studies impossible (7-10). We developed Hi-C, an extension of 3C that is capable of identifying long range interactions in an unbiased, genome-wide fashion. In Hi-C, cells are fixed with formaldehyde, causing interacting loci to be bound to one another by means of covalent DNA-protein cross-links. When the DNA is subsequently fragmented with a restriction enzyme, these loci remain linked. A biotinylated residue is incorporated as the 5' overhangs are filled in. Next, blunt-end ligation is performed under dilute conditions that favor ligation events between cross-linked DNA fragments. This results in a genome-wide library of ligation products, corresponding to pairs of fragments that were originally in close proximity to each other in the nucleus. Each ligation product is marked with biotin at the site of the junction. The library is sheared, and the junctions are pulled-down with streptavidin beads. The purified junctions can subsequently be analyzed using a high-throughput sequencer, resulting in a catalog of interacting fragments. Direct analysis of the resulting contact matrix reveals numerous features of genomic organization, such as the presence of chromosome territories and the preferential association of small gene-rich chromosomes. Correlation analysis can be applied to the contact matrix, demonstrating that the human genome is segregated into two compartments: a less densely packed compartment containing open, accessible, and active chromatin and a more dense compartment containing closed, inaccessible, and inactive chromatin regions. Finally, ensemble analysis of the contact matrix, coupled with theoretical derivations and computational simulations, revealed that at the megabase scale Hi-C reveals features consistent with a fractal globule conformation.
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- 2010
31. A Stevedore's protein knot
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Daniel Bolinger, José N. Onuchic, Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Joanna I. Sulkowska, Mehran Kardar, Leonid A. Mirny, Peter Virnau, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Kardar, Mehran, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Protein Folding ,Hydrolases ,Protein Conformation ,Computational Biology/Macromolecular Structure Analysis ,02 engineering and technology ,Biology ,Molecular Dynamics Simulation ,Computational Biology/Molecular Dynamics ,Combinatorics ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Knot (unit) ,Protein structure ,Genetics ,Structural motif ,Databases, Protein ,Molecular Biology ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Topological complexity ,Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules ,Ecology ,computer.file_format ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Protein Data Bank ,Mathematics::Geometric Topology ,Computational Theory and Mathematics ,Biochemistry ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,Modeling and Simulation ,Protein folding ,Stevedore knot ,0210 nano-technology ,Single loop ,computer ,Research Article - Abstract
Protein knots, mostly regarded as intriguing oddities, are gradually being recognized as significant structural motifs. Seven distinctly knotted folds have already been identified. It is by and large unclear how these exceptional structures actually fold, and only recently, experiments and simulations have begun to shed some light on this issue. In checking the new protein structures submitted to the Protein Data Bank, we encountered the most complex and the smallest knots to date: A recently uncovered α-haloacid dehalogenase structure contains a knot with six crossings, a so-called Stevedore knot, in a projection onto a plane. The smallest protein knot is present in an as yet unclassified protein fragment that consists of only 92 amino acids. The topological complexity of the Stevedore knot presents a puzzle as to how it could possibly fold. To unravel this enigma, we performed folding simulations with a structure-based coarse-grained model and uncovered a possible mechanism by which the knot forms in a single loop flip., Author Summary Knots are ubiquitous in many aspects of our life, but remain elusive in proteins. The multitude of protein structures archived in the Protein Data Bank can be grouped into several hundred patterns, but only a handful are folded into knots. Combing through the recently added structures we found several novel knotted proteins. A microbial enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of pollutants is the most complex protein knot encountered so far (similar to a knot used by stevedores for lifting cargo). The smallest knotted protein on the other hand consists of only 92 amino acids. The existence of these complex motifs demonstrates that the ability of self assembly goes far beyond normal expectations. Aided by computer simulations we present evidence which suggests that the Stevedore protein knot, despite its topological complexity, may actually form in a single flipping movement.
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- 2010
32. Predicting Transcription Factor Specificity with All-Atom Models
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Peter Virnau, Leonid A. Mirny, Mehran Kardar, Sahand Jamal Rahi, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Kardar, Mehran, Rahi, Sahand Jamal, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Models, Molecular ,Operator (biology) ,Ab initio ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Computational biology ,Quantitative Biology - Quantitative Methods ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Consensus Sequence ,Genetics ,A-DNA ,Physics - Biological Physics ,Gene ,Transcription factor ,Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM) ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Purr ,Binding Sites ,Base Sequence ,Chemistry ,Escherichia coli Proteins ,030302 biochemistry & molecular biology ,Atom (order theory) ,Computational Biology ,Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) ,DNA ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,3. Good health ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Repressor Proteins ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules ,Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) ,FOS: Biological sciences ,Mutation ,Protein Binding ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
The binding of a transcription factor (TF) to a DNA operator site can initiate or repress the expression of a gene. Computational prediction of sites recognized by a TF has traditionally relied upon knowledge of several cognate sites, rather than an ab initio approach. Here, we examine the possibility of using structure-based energy calculations that require no knowledge of bound sites but rather start with the structure of a protein–DNA complex. We study the PurR Escherichia coli TF, and explore to which extent atomistic models of protein–DNA complexes can be used to distinguish between cognate and noncognate DNA sites. Particular emphasis is placed on systematic evaluation of this approach by comparing its performance with bioinformatic methods, by testing it against random decoys and sites of homologous TFs. We also examine a set of experimental mutations in both DNA and the protein. Using our explicit estimates of energy, we show that the specificity for PurR is dominated by direct protein–DNA interactions, and weakly influenced by bending of DNA., National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant DMR-08- 03315), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Grant VI237/1), NEC Research Support Fund, National Institutes of Health. National Centers for Biomedical Computing (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (3U54LM008748-04S1)
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33. Protein knot server: detection of knots in protein structures
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Peter Virnau, Grigory Kolesov, Mehran Kardar, Leonid A. Mirny, Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Mirny, Leonid A., Kolesov, Grigory, Kardar, Mehran, and Virnau, Peter
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Models, Molecular ,Web server ,Protein Folding ,Theoretical computer science ,Protein Conformation ,Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) ,MathematicsofComputing_NUMERICALANALYSIS ,Alexander polynomial ,Biology ,Bioinformatics ,computer.software_genre ,Upload ,User-Computer Interface ,Knot (unit) ,Protein structure ,TheoryofComputation_ANALYSISOFALGORITHMSANDPROBLEMCOMPLEXITY ,ComputingMethodologies_SYMBOLICANDALGEBRAICMANIPULATION ,Genetics ,Computer Simulation ,Surgical knots ,Databases, Protein ,Interactive visualization ,ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS ,Internet ,Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules ,Models, Statistical ,Computational Biology ,Proteins ,Articles ,Haemophilus influenzae ,Mathematics::Geometric Topology ,computer ,Algorithms ,Software ,MathematicsofComputing_DISCRETEMATHEMATICS - Abstract
KNOTS (http://knots.mit.edu) is a web server that detects knots in protein structures. Several protein structures have been reported to contain intricate knots. The physiological role of knots and their effect on folding and evolution is an area of active research. The user submits a PDB id or uploads a 3D protein structure in PDB or mmCIF format. The current implementation of the server uses the Alexander polynomial to detect knots. The results of the analysis that are presented to the user are the location of the knot in the structure, the type of the knot and an interactive visualization of the knot. The results can also be downloaded and viewed offline. The server also maintains a regularly updated list of known knots in protein structures., National Science Foundation (U.S.) (grant DMR-04-26677), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (grant VI237/1), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Research Fellowship)
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34. Spatial effects on the speed and reliability of protein-DNA search
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Zeba Wunderlich, Leonid A. Mirny, Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Regulation of gene expression ,Binding Sites ,Time Factors ,Computer science ,Mechanism (biology) ,Reliability (computer networking) ,Protein dna ,Computational Biology ,Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) ,DNA ,Biological Sciences ,DNA-Binding Proteins ,Noise ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules ,Information and Computing Sciences ,FOS: Biological sciences ,Genetics ,Computer Simulation ,Diffusion (business) ,Biological system ,Transcription factor ,Environmental Sciences ,Developmental Biology ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Strong experimental and theoretical evidence shows that transcription factors and other specific DNA-binding proteins find their sites using a two-mode search: alternating between 3D diffusion through the cell and 1D sliding along the DNA. We consider the role spatial effects in the mechanism on two different scales. First, we reconcile recent experimental findings by showing that the 3D diffusion of the transcription factor is often local, i.e. the transcription factor lands quite near its dissociation site. Second, we discriminate between two types of searches: global searches and local searches. We show that these searches differ significantly in average search time and the variability of search time. Using experimentally measured parameter values, we also show that 1D and 3D search is not optimally balanced, leading to much larger estimates of search time. Together, these results lead to a number of biological implications including suggestions of how prokaryotes and eukaryotes achieve rapid gene regulation and the relationship between the search mechanism and noise in gene expression., Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures
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35. Chromatin Loops as Allosteric Modulators of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions
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Maxim Imakaev, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Leonid A. Mirny, Boryana Doyle, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science, Doyle, Boryana G., Imakaev, Maksim Viktorovich, and Mirny, Leonid A.
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Enhancer Elements ,QH301-705.5 ,Protein Conformation ,Allosteric regulation ,Biophysics ,Gene Expression ,Biology ,Insulator (genetics) ,Chromosome conformation capture ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Protein structure ,Genetics ,Quantitative Biology - Genomics ,Gene Regulation ,Biology (General) ,Promoter Regions, Genetic ,Enhancer ,Molecular Biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,Chromatin Fiber ,Genomics (q-bio.GN) ,0303 health sciences ,Models, Genetic ,Ecology ,Chemistry ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Computational Biology ,Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) ,Promoter ,Chromatin ,3. Good health ,Enhancer Elements, Genetic ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules ,Gene Expression Regulation ,Computational Theory and Mathematics ,FOS: Biological sciences ,Modeling and Simulation ,Chromatin Loop ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Research Article - Abstract
The classic model of eukaryotic gene expression requires direct spatial contact between a distal enhancer and a proximal promoter. Recent Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) studies show that enhancers and promoters are embedded in a complex network of looping interactions. Here we use a polymer model of chromatin fiber to investigate whether, and to what extent, looping interactions between elements in the vicinity of an enhancer-promoter pair can influence their contact frequency. Our equilibrium polymer simulations show that a chromatin loop, formed by elements flanking either an enhancer or a promoter, suppresses enhancer-promoter interactions, working as an insulator. A loop formed by elements located in the region between an enhancer and a promoter, on the contrary, facilitates their interactions. We find that different mechanisms underlie insulation and facilitation; insulation occurs due to steric exclusion by the loop, and is a global effect, while facilitation occurs due to an effective shortening of the enhancer-promoter genomic distance, and is a local effect. Consistently, we find that these effects manifest quite differently for in silico 3C and microscopy. Our results show that looping interactions that do not directly involve an enhancer-promoter pair can nevertheless significantly modulate their interactions. This phenomenon is analogous to allosteric regulation in proteins, where a conformational change triggered by binding of a regulatory molecule to one site affects the state of another site., National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (U54-CA143874-04), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, National Science Foundation (U.S.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering and Science for High School Students (PRIMES)
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- 2014
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