Search Results - "Padinhateeri, Ranjith"
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α-Synuclein aggregation nucleates through liquid–liquid phase separation
Published in Nature chemistry (01-08-2020)“…α-Synuclein (α-Syn) aggregation and amyloid formation is directly linked with Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis. However, the early events involved in this…”
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Role of diffusion and reaction of the constituents in spreading of histone modification marks
Published in PLoS computational biology (11-07-2024)“…Cells switch genes ON or OFF by altering the state of chromatin via histone modifications at specific regulatory locations along the chromatin polymer. These…”
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High fidelity epigenetic inheritance: Information theoretic model predicts threshold filling of histone modifications post replication
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-02-2022)“…During cell devision, maintaining the epigenetic information encoded in histone modification patterns is crucial for survival and identity of cells. The…”
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Role of non-specific interactions in the phase-separation and maturation of macromolecules
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-05-2022)“…Phase separation of biomolecules could be mediated by both specific and non-specific interactions. How the interplay between non-specific and specific…”
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Predicting scale-dependent chromatin polymer properties from systematic coarse-graining
Published in Nature communications (11-07-2023)“…Simulating chromatin is crucial for predicting genome organization and dynamics. Although coarse-grained bead-spring polymer models are commonly used to…”
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Intermolecular interactions underlie protein/peptide phase separation irrespective of sequence and structure at crowded milieu
Published in Nature communications (04-10-2023)“…Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as a crucial biological phenomenon underlying the sequestration of macromolecules (such as proteins and…”
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Role of nucleosome positioning in 3D chromatin organization and loop formation
Published in Journal of biosciences (2020)“…We present a physics-based polymer model that can investigate 3D organization of chromatin accounting for DNA elasticity, DNA-bending due to nucleosomes, and…”
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Collective force generated by multiple biofilaments can exceed the sum of forces due to individual ones
Published in New journal of physics (17-06-2014)“…Collective dynamics and force generation by cytoskeletal filaments are crucial in many cellular processes. Investigating growth dynamics of a bundle of N…”
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Force-induced dynamical properties of multiple cytoskeletal filaments are distinct from that of single filaments
Published in PloS one (22-12-2014)“…How cytoskeletal filaments collectively undergo growth and shrinkage is an intriguing question. Collective properties of multiple bio-filaments (actin or…”
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Nucleosome positioning in a model of active chromatin remodeling enzymes
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-05-2011)“…Accounting for enzyme-mediated active sliding, disassembly, and sequence-dependent positioning of nucleosomes, we simulate nucleosome occupancy over…”
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Investigating the Intrinsic Aggregation Potential of Evolutionarily Conserved Segments in p53
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (30-09-2014)“…Protein aggregation and amyloid formation are known to play a role both in diseases and in biological functions. Transcription factor p53 plays a major role in…”
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Statistical mechanics provides novel insights into microtubule stability and mechanism of shrinkage
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-02-2015)“…Microtubules are nano-machines that grow and shrink stochastically, making use of the coupling between chemical kinetics and mechanics of its constituent…”
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A minimal conformational switching-dependent model for amyloid self-assembly
Published in Scientific reports (17-02-2016)“…Amyloid formation is associated with various pathophysiological conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases as well as many useful functions. The…”
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Role of ATP-Hydrolysis in the Dynamics of a Single Actin Filament
Published in Biophysical journal (21-04-2010)“…We study the stochastic dynamics of growth and shrinkage of single actin filaments taking into account insertion, removal, and ATP hydrolysis of subunits…”
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Probing cellular mechanoadaptation using cell-substrate de-adhesion dynamics: experiments and model
Published in PloS one (08-09-2014)“…Physical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) are known to regulate cellular processes ranging from spreading to differentiation, with alterations in…”
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Nucleosome hopping and sliding kinetics determined from dynamics of single chromatin fibers in Xenopus egg extracts
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-08-2007)“…Chromatin function in vivo is intimately connected with changes in its structure: a prime example is occlusion or exposure of regulatory sequences via…”
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Binding of DNA-bending non-histone proteins destabilizes regular 30-nm chromatin structure
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-01-2017)“…Why most of the in vivo experiments do not find the 30-nm chromatin fiber, well studied in vitro, is a puzzle. Two basic physical inputs that are crucial for…”
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Dynamic control of gene expression: How lncRNAs shape transcriptional condensates
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Irregular Chromatin: Packing Density, Fiber Width, and Occurrence of Heterogeneous Clusters
Published in Biophysical journal (07-01-2020)“…How chromatin is folded on the length scale of a gene is an open question. Recent experiments have suggested that, in vivo, chromatin is folded in an irregular…”
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Molecular interpretation of ACTH-β-endorphin coaggregation: relevance to secretory granule biogenesis
Published in PloS one (05-03-2012)“…Peptide/protein hormones could be stored as non-toxic amyloid-like structures in pituitary secretory granules. ACTH and β-endorphin are two of the important…”
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