supercoil

English

Etymology

super- +‎ coil

Noun

supercoil (plural supercoils)

  1. (genetics) A coil of the DNA helix upon itself, such as a figure eight.

See also

Verb

supercoil (third-person singular simple present supercoils, present participle supercoiling, simple past and past participle supercoiled)

  1. (genetics) To twist circular DNA into a supercoil.
    • 1995, Sara J. Felts, “Assembly and Transcription of Chromatin Templates Using RNA Polymerase III”, in Martin J. Tymms, editor, In Vitro Transcription and Translation Protocols‎, →ISBN, page 58:
      After deproteination, the migration of the assembled form II DNA will remain unchanged, appearing not to have been supercoiled by nucleosomes.

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.