Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40112110›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Energy landscape analysis of the development of the chromosome structure across the cell cycle.

Vinícius G Contessoto, Antonio B Oliveira, Sumitabha Brahmachari, Peter G Wolynes, Michele Di Pierro, José N Onuchic

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A data-driven chromatin model reveals spatial and dynamic features of genome organization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Vinícius G ContessotoCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX.ORCID 0000-0002-1891-9563
Antonio B OliveiraCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX.
Sumitabha BrahmachariCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX.
Peter G WolynesCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX.ORCID 0000-0001-7975-9287
Michele Di PierroCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115.
José N OnuchicCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX.ORCID 0000-0002-9448-0388

Funding

PAR-20-117R35GM146852 · NIGMS · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Michele Di Pierro · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Bullard-Welch Chair at Rice University C-0016Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) NAHHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) NANational Science Foundation (NSF) 2019745National Science Foundation (NSF) 2210291NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM146852Welch Foundation (The Welch Foundation) C-1792
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During mitosis, there are significant structural changes in chromosomes. We used a maximum entropy approach to invert experimental Hi-C data to generate effective energy landscapes for chromosomal structures at different stages during the cell cycle. Modeled mitotic structures show a hierarchical organization of helices of helices. High-periodicity loops span hundreds of kilobases or less, while the other low-periodicity ones are larger in genomic separation, spanning several megabases. The structural ensembles reveal a progressive decrease in compartmentalization from interphase to mitosis, accompanied by the appearance of a second diagonal in prometaphase, indicating an organized array of loops. While there is a local tendency to form chiral helices, overall, no preferential left-handed or right-handed chirality appears to develop on the time scale of the cell cycle. Chromatin thus appears to be a liquid crystal containing numerous defects that anneal rather slowly.

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Cell CycleChromosomesChromatinEntropyHumansMitosisChromatinchromatin dynamicsenergy landscapemitotic chromosome

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PMID40112110
PMCPMC11962442

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