DNA sites buried in nucleosome become accessible at room temperature: a discrete-event-simulation based modeling approach

Authors:
Amin R. Mazloom;Kalyan Basu;Subhrangsu S. Mandal;Mehran Sorourian;Sajal Das
Affiliations:
CReWMaN Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX;CReWMaN Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX;Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX;Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX;CReWMaN Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Venue:
ISBRA'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Bioinformatics research and applications
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Conformation of a canonical nucleosome inhibits the direct access of the binding proteins to portions of nucleosomal DNA. Nucleosome dynamics establish certain pathways through which nucleosome gets remodeled (spontaneously, covalently or non-covalently) and the buried DNA sites become accessible. Currently for most pathways no single model is available to capture the temporal behavior of these pathways. Plus traditional diffusion-based models in most cases are not precise. In this work we have given a systematic overview of such pathways. Then, we manipulate the probability of a binding site on array of N nucleosomes and chromatin of length G base pairs . We further identify three of the widely accepted thermal-driven (passive) pathways and model those based on stochastic process and the Discrete-Event-Simulation. For the output of the models we have sought either the site access rate or the sliding rate of the nucleosome. We also show that results from these models match the experimental data where available.