Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Single-cell absolute contact probability detection reveals chromosomes are organized by multiple low-frequency yet specific interactions

  • Diego I. Cattoni,
  • Andrés M. Cardozo Gizzi,
  • Mariya Georgieva,
  • Marco Di Stefano,
  • Alessandro Valeri,
  • Delphine Chamousset,
  • Christophe Houbron,
  • Stephanie Déjardin,
  • Jean-Bernard Fiche,
  • Inma González,
  • Jia-Ming Chang,
  • Thomas Sexton,
  • Marc A. Marti-Renom,
  • Frédéric Bantignies,
  • Giacomo Cavalli,
  • Marcelo Nollmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01962-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Eukaryotic genomes are partitioned into self-interacting modules or topologically associated domains (TADs) that exist at the kilo-megabase scale. Here Cattoni et al. combine super-resolution microscopy with DNA-labeling methods to quantify absolute frequencies of interactions within TADs.