Mechanisms of chromatin patterning

Presentation

Inspired by the functional diversity among the genetically identical cells of an organism, our goal is to understand how cells can interpret their genome in a particular way to establish their cellular identity. To this end, we study the mechanisms that cells use to form and maintain cell type-specific chromatin patterns along their genome. As these patterns span multiple scales from a few modified histones to micron-sized subcompartments, we investigate them using complementary techniques from single-molecule biophysics to live-cell imaging and computational biology.

Projets

Publications

• Erdel F.
  Biophysical mechanisms of chromatin patterning
  Curr Opin Genet Dev 61:62-68
  2020 May
• Erdel F, Rademacher A, Vlijm R, Tünnermann J, Frank L, Weinmann R, Schweigert E, Yserentant K, Hummert J, Bauer C, Schumacher S, Al Alwash A, Normand C, Herten DP, Engelhardt J, Rippe K.
  Mouse heterochromatin adopts digital compaction states without showing hallmarks of HP1-driven liquid-liquid phase separation
  Mol Cell 78:236–249
  2020 Apr
• Erdel F, Rippe K.
  Formation of chromatin subcompartments by phase separation
  Biophys J 114(10):2262-70
  2018 May
• Rademacher A, Erdel F, Trojanowski J, Schumacher S, Rippe K.
  Real-time observation of light-controlled transcription in living cells
  J Cell Sci 130(24):4213-24
  2017 Dec
• Erdel F.
  How communication between nucleosomes enables spreading and epigenetic memory of histone modifications
  Bioessays 39(12):1700053
  2017 Oct

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