DNA REPLICATION Prime-time looping

被引:11
作者
Dixon, Nicholas E. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wollongong, Sch Chem, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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D O I
10.1038/462854a
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:854 / 855
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