Women’s contribution in understanding how topoisomerases, supercoiling, and transcription control genome organization

One of the biggest paradoxes in biology is that human genome is roughly 2 m long, while the nucleus containing it is almost one million times smaller. To fit into the nucleus, DNA twists, bends and folds into several hierarchical levels of compaction. Still, DNA has to maintain a high degree of acce...

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Main Authors: Laura Martin, Maria Victoria Neguembor, Maria Pia Cosma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1155825/full