supercoil
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]supercoil (plural supercoils)
- (genetics) A coil of the DNA helix upon itself, such as a figure eight.
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- topoisomerase
DNA supercoil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
[edit]supercoil (third-person singular simple present supercoils, present participle supercoiling, simple past and past participle supercoiled)
- (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[1], →ISBN, page 58:
- After deproteination, the migration of the assembled form II DNA will remain unchanged, appearing not to have been supercoiled by nucleosomes.