## Synopsis A quantity, called the linking number, is defined, which specifies the total number of t,wists in a circular helix. The linking number is invariant under continuous deformations of the ring and therefore enables one to calculate the influence of superhelical structures on the secondary
Effect of DNA superhelicity on transcription termination
โ Scribed by Rosenthal, Eugene R. ;Calvo, Joseph M.
- Book ID
- 104725826
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 545 KB
- Volume
- 207
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0026-8925
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โฆ Synopsis
Restriction fragments containing either leut (a rho-independent transcription termination site) and/or leut' (a rho-dependent transcription termination site) were cloned into plasmid pOL4. Treatment of plasmid-containing Escherichia coli strains with coumermycin resulted in loss of in vivo plasmid superhelicity 10 min after antibiotic addition. Galactokinase levels specified by these plasmid-containing strains were the same regardless of whether functional DNA gyrase was present. These results suggest that transcription termination is unaffected by the superhelical state of DNA.
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