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Hyperplectonemes: A Higher Order Compact and Dynamic DNA Self-Organization

Japaridze, Aleksandre  
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Muskhelishvili, Georgi
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Benedetti, Fabrizio  
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2017
Nano Letters

Bacterial chromosome has a compact structure that dynamically changes its shape in response to bacterial growth rate and growth phase. Determining how chromatin remains accessible to DNA binding proteins, and transcription machinery is crucial to understand the link between genetic regulation, DNA structure, and topology. Here, we study very large supercoiled dsDNA using high-resolution characterization, theoretical modeling, and molecular dynamics calculations. We unveil a new type of highly ordered DNA organization forming in the presence of attractive DNA DNA interactions, which we call hyperplectonemes. We demonstrate that their formation depends on DNA size, supercoiling, and bacterial physiology. We compare structural, nanomechanic, and dynamic properties of hyperplectonemes bound by three highly abundant nucleoid-associated proteins (FIS, H-NS, and HU). In all these cases, the negative supercoiling of DNA determines molecular dynamics, modulating their 3D shape. Overall, our findings provide a mechanistic insight into the critical role of DNA topology in genetic regulation.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b05294
Web of Science ID

WOS:000396185800089

Author(s)
Japaridze, Aleksandre  
Muskhelishvili, Georgi
Benedetti, Fabrizio  
Gavriilidou, Agni F. M.
Zenobi, Renato
De Los Rios, Paolo  
Longo, Giovanni  
Dietler, Giovanni  
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Published in
Nano Letters
Volume

17

Issue

3

Start page

1938

End page

1948

Subjects

DNA

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supercoiling

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plectonemes

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self-organization

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nucleoid associated proteins

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H-NS

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FIS

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HU

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March 27, 2017
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