Environmental stimuli and transcriptional activity generate transient changes in DNA torsional tension
- 1 March 1990
- Vol. 12 (3) , 125-128
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.950120306
Abstract
Transient changes in DNA torsional tension are generated by environmental stimuli and transcriptional activity. In eukaryotic cells, these changes can only be accommodated by a chromatin structure that is flexible. This property of chromatin may be essential to the regulation of eukaryotic gene activity.Keywords
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