Journal
LIFE-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life12040541
Keywords
chromatin; nucleosome positioning; nucleosome distribution; heterochromatin; euchromatin; structure classification
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [EXC 2181/1-390900948]
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Nucleosome positioning plays a crucial role in important biological processes and can be used to predict genome function and chromatin organization. This study developed a theoretical model to analyze nucleosome positioning data and obtained genome-wide clustering in Candida albicans. The clustering revealed different nucleosome distributions and gene densities that govern differential gene expression patterns. Furthermore, these distribution patterns were conserved throughout the genome and within species.
Nucleosome positioning plays an important role in crucial biological processes such as replication, transcription, and gene regulation. It has been widely used to predict the genome's function and chromatin organisation. So far, the studies of patterns in nucleosome positioning have been limited to transcription start sites, CTCFs binding sites, and some promoter and loci regions. The genome-wide organisational pattern remains unknown. We have developed a theoretical model to coarse-grain nucleosome positioning data in order to obtain patterns in their distribution. Using hierarchical clustering on the auto-correlation function of this coarse-grained nucleosome positioning data, a genome-wide clustering is obtained for Candida albicans. The clustering shows the existence beyond hetero- and eu-chromatin inside the chromosomes. These non-trivial clusterings correspond to different nucleosome distributions and gene densities governing differential gene expression patterns. Moreover, these distribution patterns inside the chromosome appeared to be conserved throughout the genome and within species. The pipeline of the coarse grain nucleosome positioning sequence to identify underlying genomic organisation used in our study is novel, and the classifications obtained are unique and consistent.
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