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After years of work, the Zechiedrich lab has created small loops of supercoiled DNA.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

"One goal of our laboratory has been to study these interactions using a DNA structure that more closely mimics the actual supercoiled and looped DNA form present in living cells."

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Their previous study looking at the 3-D structures of the resulting supercoiled minicircles revealed that these loops form a variety of shapes that they hypothesized enzymes such as gyrase would recognize.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

Some proteins are known to be involved in the supercoiling; other proteins and enzymes such as DNA gyrase help in maintaining the supercoiled structure.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The DNA of prokaryotes is organized into a circular chromosome supercoiled in the nucleoid region of the cell cytoplasm.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022