DNA supercoiling helps to unlink sister duplexes after replication

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-12

  Vologodskii, Alexander ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA gyrase; DNA supercoiling; DNA unlinking; Supercoiling free energy

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING);

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 74949095602     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900143     Document Type: Review

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