New Models of the Cell Nucleus: Crowding, Entropic Forces, Phase Separation, and Fractals

<ol> <li>The Nuclear Physique<br>Thoru Pederson</li> <li>The Crowded Nucleus<br>Ronald Hancock</li> <li>Crowding in Polymer-Nanoparticle Mixtures<br>Alan R. Denton</li> <li>Crowding-Induced Formation and Structural Alteration of Nuclear Compartments: Insights from Computer Simulations<br>Eun Jin Cho, Igal Szleifer and Jun Soo Kim</li> <li>Phase Separation as a Possible Means of Nuclear Compartmentalization<br>William M. Aumiller, Jr, Bradley W. Davis and Christine D. Keating</li> <li>Formation of Multi-Protein Assemblies in the Nucleus: The Spindle Assembly Checkpoint (SAC)<br>Victor M. Bolanos-Garcia</li> <li>Characteristic Behavior of Crowding Macromolecules Confined in Cell-Sized Droplets<br>Miho Yanagisawa, Takahiro Sakaue and Kenichi Yoshikawa</li> <li>Non-Canonical Structures and their Thermodynamics of DNA and RNA Under Molecular Crowding: Beyond the Watson-Crick Double Helix<br>Naoki Sugimoto</li> <li>Computational Models of Large-Scale Genome Architecture<br>Angelo Rosa and Christophe Zimmer</li> <li>How Chromatin Looping and Nuclear Envelope Attachment Affect Genome Organization in Eukaryotic Cell Nuclei<br>Hansjoerg Jerabek and Dieter W. Heermann</li> <li>Crowding, Diffusion, and Biochemical Reactions<br>Matthias Weiss</li> <li>Importance of Crowding in Signaling, Genetic, and Metabolic Networks<br>Pieter Rein ten Wolde and Andrew Mugler</li> <li>Relevance and Limitations of Crowding, Fractal, and Polymer Models to Describe Nuclear Architecture<br>Sébastien Huet, Christophe Lavelle, Hubert Ranchon, Pascal Carrivain, Jean-Marc Victor and Aurélien Bancaud</li></ol>