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Abstract
The effect of protein-mediated DNA looping on local DNA conformation during active transcription was studied using the lac repressor-operator system. Our results suggest that lac repressor-mediated DNA looping within a plasmid DNA molecule containing two lac repressor binding sequences in vivo effectively separates plasmid DNA into two topological domains. Supercoils generated by transcription within each topological domain can be rapidly removed by DNA topoisomerase I.Mesh:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 2056530 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(91)90658-s
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Mol Biol ISSN: 0022-2836 Impact factor: 5.469