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Head of the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
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Supercoiling
Supercoiling Definition Supercoiling (from super- and coil = winding) refers to an additional spatial twisting of the helical double-stranded DNA. General information For example, the helical DNA in prokaryotic cell nuclei is twisted by enzymes (e.g. bacterial topoisomerases (gyrases) into simple...
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