Supercoil
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A coil of the DNA helix upon itself, such as a figure eight.
Verb
- 1 To twist circular DNA into a supercoil.
"After deproteination, the migration of the assembled form II DNA will remain unchanged, appearing not to have been supercoiled by nucleosomes."
Example
More examples"After deproteination, the migration of the assembled form II DNA will remain unchanged, appearing not to have been supercoiled by nucleosomes."
Etymology
From super- + coil.
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