Towards A 3D Chromosome Shape Alphabet
Soto, C. J.; Bryner, D.; Neretti, N.; Srivastava, A.
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The study of the 3-dimensional (3D) structure of chromosomes - the largest macromolecules in biology - is one of the most challenging to date in structural biology. Here, we develop a novel representation of chromosomes, as sequences of shape letters from a finite shape alphabet, which provides a compact and efficient way to analyze ensembles of chromosome shape data, akin to the analysis of texts in a language by using letters. We construct a Chromosome Shape Alphabet (CSA) from an ensemble of chromosome 3D structures inferred from Hi-C data - via SIMBA3D or other methods - by segmenting curves based on topologically associating domains (TADs) boundaries, and by clustering all TADs 3D structures into groups of similar shapes. The median shapes of these groups, with some pruning and processing, form the Chromosome Shape Letters (CSLs) of the alphabet. We provide a proof-of-concept for these CSLs by reconstructing independent test curves using only CSLs (and corresponding transformations) and comparing these reconstructions with the original curves. Finally, we demonstrate how CSLs can be used to summarize the variability of shapes in an ensemble of chromosome 3D structures using generalized sequence logos.
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