The Mean Looping Time of DNA
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DNA looping.
DNA looping is widely used in nature. It is well documented in the regulation of prokaryotic and eukaryotic gene expression, DNA replication, and site-specific DNA recombination. Undoubtedly looping also functions in other protein-DNA transactions such as repair and chromosome segregation. While the underlying physical chemistry of DNA looping is common to all systems, the precise biochemical d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.623