Prime-time looping

Nicholas E. Dixon
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Nicholas E. Dixon: Nicholas E. Dixon is at the School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia. nickd@uow.edu.au

Nature, 2009, vol. 462, issue 7275, 854-855

Abstract: When the replication machinery copies DNA, it must unwind the double helix in one direction while synthesis of one of the strands proceeds in the other. Making transient DNA loops may solve this directional dilemma.

Date: 2009
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