| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Genome is not an abstract sequence of alphabet but a physical entity confined in the nucleus. We developed a computational method to simulate the three-dimensional structure and movement of genomes. We consider chromosomes as heteropolymers, which are comprised of local chromatin regions having various different physical properties; we assumed that those local properties are determined by the epigenetic histone marks of the corresponding regions. Simulations of human fibroblast and lymphoblastoid nuclei showed that the method developed in this project quantitatively reproduced the experimentally observed contact frequency between chromatin regions and nuclear lamina, Hi-C contact pattern data, contact frequency between chromatin regions and nucleoli, and compartmentalization of transcription active and inactive regions. Thus, the computational method developed in this project can be a platform for the systematic study of genome physics.
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