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... E cold contains circular duplex DNA molecules.
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... of the parasite trypanosome forms a link of some 5,000 to 10,000 unknotted DNA circles the DNA equivalent of chain mail (Marini et al., 1980; Englund et al., 1982; Rauch et al., 1994~. Work is ongoing (Rauch et al., 19943 in which the topological structure of kDNA is being studied by means of partial digest of the network, electrophoresis, and electron microscopy of the characteristic fragments, in which the large kDNA link is being randomly broken up into small sublinks, and the frequency of occurrence of these sublink units is being used (statistically)
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Key Terms

  • dna knots
  • rational tangle
  • duplex dna
  • dna knot
  • dna circle

  • dna molecules
  • dna circles
  • knot theory
  • hopf link
  • figure eight

  • dna molecule
  • algebraic classification
  • topological structure
  • eight knot
  • unknotted dna

  • circular duplex
  • electron microscopy
  • tangle equation
  • chain mail
  • strand passage

  • dna strands
  • parental tangle
  • gel mobility


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