Depletion of the Chromatin Looping Proteins CTCF and Cohesin Causes Chromatin Compaction: Insight into Chromatin Folding by Polymer Modelling

• Mariliis Tark-Dame,

  Affiliation Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Hansjoerg Jerabek,

  Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Erik M. M. Manders,

  Affiliations Van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department for Molecular Biotechnology, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium

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• Dieter W. Heermann ,

  * E-mail: heermann@tphys.uni-heidelberg.de (DWH); r.vandriel@uva.nl (RvD)

  Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Roel van Driel

  * E-mail: heermann@tphys.uni-heidelberg.de (DWH); r.vandriel@uva.nl (RvD)

  Affiliation Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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