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    Polymer physics view of peripheral chromatin: de Gennes' self-similar carpet
    (American Physical Society, 2024-05-24) Sariyer, Ozan S.; Erbaş, Aykut
    Using scaling arguments to model peripheral chromatin localized near the inner surface of the nuclear envelope (NE) as a flexible polymer chain, we discuss the structural properties of the peripheral chromatin composed of alternating lamin-associated domains (LADs) and inter-LADs. Modeling the attraction of LADs to NE by de Gennes' self -similar carpet, which treats the chromatin layer as a polymer fractal, explains two major experimental observations. (i) The high density of chromatin close to the nuclear periphery decays to a constant density as the distance to the periphery increases. (ii) Due to the decreasing mesh size towards the nuclear periphery, the chromatin carpet inside NE excludes molecules (via nonspecific interactions) above a threshold size that depends on the distance from the nuclear periphery.