Scientists crash test DNA’s replication machinery

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 17:42 in Biology & Nature

Important molecular machines routinely crash into one another while plying their trades on DNA. New research shows that the enzymes that copy DNA before cell division, called replisomes, are the kings of this road, kicking aside machines that are performing less critical tasks, such as transcribing instructions for proteins.

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