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Debye-Hückel potential at an interface between two media
Alexander Morozov, Iain Muntz, Job H. J. Thijssen +1
Electrostatic interactions between point charges embedded into interfaces separating dielectric media are omnipresent in soft matter systems and often control their stability. Such…
Solid-Liquid Transition of Deformable and Overlapping Active Particles
Benjamin Loewe, Michael Chiang, Davide Marenduzzo +1
Experiments and theory have shown that cell monolayers and epithelial tissues exhibit solid-liquid and glass-liquid transitions. These transitions are biologically relevant to our…
Magnetic Polymer Models for Epigenetics-Driven Chromosome Folding
Davide Colì, Davide Michieletto, Davide Marenduzzo +1
Epigenetics is a driving force of important and ubiquitous phenomena in nature such as cell differentiation or even metamorphosis. Oppositely to its widespread role, understanding…
Nonequilibrium Theory of Epigenomic Microphase Separation in the Cell Nucleus
Davide Michieletto, Davide Colí, Davide Marenduzzo +1
Understanding the spatial organisation of the genome in the cell nucleus is one of the current grand challenges in biophysics. Certain biochemical -- or epigenetic -- marks that ar…
Dynamic clustering and re-dispersion in concentrated colloid-active gel composites
G. Foffano, J. S. Lintuvuori, K. Stratford +2
We study the dynamics of quasi-two-dimensional concentrated suspensions of colloidal particles in active gels by computer simulations. Remarkably, we find that activity induces a d…
Chromosome Compaction and Chromatin Stiffness Enhance Diffusive Loop Extrusion by Slip-Link Proteins
Andrea Bonato, Chris A. Brackley, James Johnson +2
We use Brownian dynamics simulations to study the formation of chromatin loops through diffusive sliding of slip-link-like proteins, mimicking the behaviour of cohesin molecules. W…
Plectoneme dynamics and statistics in braided polymers
Giada Forte, Michele Caraglio, Davide Marenduzzo +1
Braids composed of two interwoven polymer chains exhibit a buckling transition whose origin has been explained through the onset of plectonemic structures. Here we study, by a comb…