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  • Tsoy, Olga; Galitsyna, Aleksandra; Khrameeva, Ekaterina; Ulianov, Sergey; Gelfand, Mikhail; Razin, Sergey

    2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2018-Dec.
    Conference Proceeding

    The principles of three-dimensional organization of chromatin are known for only few model organisms. Here we describe the structure of chromatin and gene expression in the slime mold - Dictyostelium discoideum, and its changes during the life cycle. The slime mold mainly exists as a unicellular amoeba, but during starvation the amoebae start to aggregate and form a multicellular fruit body for reproduction. The genome (34,21 Mb, 6 chromosomes) of D. discoideum is unusual 1: it has a high gene density, very low GC-content (22,43%) and numerous repeats.