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Abstract
The method for detecting the small fraction (1%) of transcriptionally active SV40 minichromosomes, in the presence of the bulk minichromosomes, (14) has been applied to directly analyze the topology of transcribed and non-transcribed minichromosomal DNA. We show here that DNA of both transcribed and non-transcribed minichromosomes have the same number of supercoils which are constrained by nucleosomes. In addition, minichromosomal DNA of both fractions have a low level of unconstrained supercoils (1-2 extra supercoils) which can be relaxed in vitro by topoisomerase I.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 2830595 PMCID: PMC334726 DOI: 10.1093/nar/16.3.895
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971