Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents Année : 2020

Modeling supercoiled DNA interacting with an anchored cluster of proteins: towards a quantitative estimation of chromosomal DNA supercoiling

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We investigate the measurement of DNA supercoiling density ($σ$) along chromosomes using interaction frequencies between DNA and DNA-anchored clusters of proteins. Specifically, we show how the physics of DNA supercoiling leads, in bacteria, to the quantitative modeling of binding properties of ParB proteins around their centromere-like site, {\it parS}. Using this framework, we provide an upper bound for $σ$ in the {\it Escherichia coli} chromosome, consistent with plasmid values, and offer a proof of concept for a high accuracy measurement. To reach these conclusions, we revisit the problem of the formation of ParB clusters. We predict, in particular, that they result from a non-equilibrium, stationary balance between an influx of produced proteins and an outflux of excess proteins, i.e., they behave like liquid-like protein condensates with unconventional ``leaky'' boundaries.
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hal-04851307 , version 1 (20-12-2024)

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Jean-Charles Walter, Thibaut Lepage, Jérôme Dorignac, Frédéric Geniet, Andrea Parmeggiani, et al.. Modeling supercoiled DNA interacting with an anchored cluster of proteins: towards a quantitative estimation of chromosomal DNA supercoiling. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2020, 56 (6), pp.106153. ⟨10.48550/arXiv.2002.00111⟩. ⟨hal-04851307⟩
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