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On the mechanochemical machinery underlying chromatin remodeling

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On the mechanochemical machinery underlying chromatin remodeling
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Yusufaly
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Tahir I.
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Wilma Olson
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Vanderbilt
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David
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Diaconescu
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Darrin
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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2014-10
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2014
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This dissertation discuss two recent efforts, via a unique combination of structural bioinformatics and density functional theory, to unravel some of the details concerning how molecular machinery within the eukaryotic cell nucleus controls chromatin architecture. The first, a study of the 5-methylation of cytosine in 5′-CG-3′ : 5′-CG-3′ base-pair steps, reveals that the methyl groups roughen the local elastic energy landscape of the DNA. This enhances the probability of the canonical B-DNA structure transitioning into the undertwisted A-like and overtwisted C-like forms seen in nucleosomes, or looped segments of DNA bound to histones. The second part focuses on the formation of salt bridges between arginine residues in histones and phosphate groups on the DNA backbone. The arginine residues are ob- served to apply a tunable mechanical load to the backbone, enabling precision-controlled activation of DNA deformations.
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Physics and Astronomy
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Chromatin--Structure
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Eukaryotic cells
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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by Tahir I. Yusufaly
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ETD doctoral
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