Untangling the double helix : DNA entanglement and the action of the DNA topoisomerases /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, James C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An insuperable problem
  • Nature's solutions : the DNA topoisomerases
  • Breaking a DNA strand and holding onto
  • The broken ends
  • A magic swivel
  • Moving one DNA double helix through another
  • Real-time viewing of the DNA topoisomerases in action
  • Manifestations of DNA entanglement: replication and recombination
  • Manifestations of DNA entanglement : transcription and gene expression
  • Beyond DNA untanglement: new twists on an old
  • Theme
  • From nature's battlefields to the clinical wards
  • Appendix 1 : identification of the covalent intermediates in topoisomerase-catalyzed reactions
  • Appendix 2 catalysis of dna breakage and rejoining by dna topoisomerases.