Anomalous diffusion in fractal globules
Soft Condensed Matter
2016-01-08 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Subcellular Processes
Abstract
The fractal globule state is a popular model for describing chromatin packing in eukaryotic nuclei. Here we provide a scaling theory and dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) computer simulation for the thermal motion of monomers in the fractal globule state. Simulations starting from different entanglement-free initial states show good convergence which provides evidence supporting the existence of unique metastable fractal globule state. We show monomer motion in this state to be sub-diffusive described by with close to 0.4. This result is in good agreement with existing experimental data on the chromatin dynamics which makes an additional argument in support of the fractal globule model of chromatin packing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.2558,
title = {Anomalous diffusion in fractal globules},
author = {Mikhail V. Tamm and Leonid I. Nazarov and Alexey A. Gavrilov and Alexander V. Chertovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2558},
year = {2016}
}