In E. coli, where the replication fork travels at 500 nucleotide pairs per second, the DNA ahead

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In E. coli, where the replication fork travels at 500 nucleotide pairs per second, the DNA ahead of the fork— in the absence of topoisomerase would have to rotate at nearly 3000 revolutions per minute.


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Molecular Biology Of The Cell

ISBN: 9780815344322

6th Edition

Authors: Bruce Alberts, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

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