Organisation and dynamics of individual DNA segments in topologically complex genomes
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| author | Ramakrishnan, Saminathan Patnaik, Auro Varat Grillo, Guglielmo Tubiana, Luca Michieletto, Davide |
| author_facet | Ramakrishnan, Saminathan Patnaik, Auro Varat Grillo, Guglielmo Tubiana, Luca Michieletto, Davide |
| contents | Capturing the physical organisation and dynamics of genomic regions is one of the major open challenges in biology. The kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) is a topologically complex genome, made by thousands of DNA (mini and maxi) circles interlinked into a two-dimensional Olympic network. The organisation and dynamics of these DNA circles are poorly understood. In this paper, we show that dCas9 linked to Quantum Dots can efficiently label different classes of DNA minicircles in kDNA. We use this method to study the distribution and dynamics of different classes of DNA minicircles within the network. We discover that maxicircles display a preference to localise at the periphery of the network and that they undergo subdiffusive dynamics. From the latter, we can also quantify the effective network stiffness, confirming previous indirect estimations via AFM. Our method could be used more generally, to quantify the location, dynamics and material properties of genomic regions in other complex genomes, such as that of bacteria, and to study their behaviour in the presence of DNA-binding proteins. |
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| spellingShingle | Organisation and dynamics of individual DNA segments in topologically complex genomes Ramakrishnan, Saminathan Patnaik, Auro Varat Grillo, Guglielmo Tubiana, Luca Michieletto, Davide Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics Capturing the physical organisation and dynamics of genomic regions is one of the major open challenges in biology. The kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) is a topologically complex genome, made by thousands of DNA (mini and maxi) circles interlinked into a two-dimensional Olympic network. The organisation and dynamics of these DNA circles are poorly understood. In this paper, we show that dCas9 linked to Quantum Dots can efficiently label different classes of DNA minicircles in kDNA. We use this method to study the distribution and dynamics of different classes of DNA minicircles within the network. We discover that maxicircles display a preference to localise at the periphery of the network and that they undergo subdiffusive dynamics. From the latter, we can also quantify the effective network stiffness, confirming previous indirect estimations via AFM. Our method could be used more generally, to quantify the location, dynamics and material properties of genomic regions in other complex genomes, such as that of bacteria, and to study their behaviour in the presence of DNA-binding proteins. |
| title | Organisation and dynamics of individual DNA segments in topologically complex genomes |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11340 |