RNA Polymerase, a Scrunching Machine
- 17 November 2006
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 314 (5802), 1097-1098
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1135746
Abstract
RNA polymerase stores energy to break its initial bonds with DNA by scrunching the single strands of DNA that were unwound in the region where the polymerase started RNA synthesis.Keywords
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