Susceptibility to superhelically driven DNA duplex destabilization: a highly conserved property of yeast replication origins.

Strand separation is obligatory for several DNA functions, including replication. However, local DNA properties such as A+T content or thermodynamic stability alone do not determine the susceptibility to this transition in vivo. Rather, superhelical stresses provide long-range coupling among the tra...

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Main Authors: Prashanth Ak, Craig J Benham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2005-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1183513?pdf=render