A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the ...

In addition, every other base in a stretch of Z-DNA takes on a different orientation relative to the sugar backbone than the arrangement in B-DNA, giving this alternative form of DNA the zig-zag shape ...

Structure of a B-DNA Dodecamer: Conformation and Dynamics Horace R. Drew, Richard M. Wing, Tsunehiro Takano, Christopher Broka, Shoji Tanaka, Keiichi Itakura and Richard E. Dickerson Proceedings of ...

Scientists from a university are filtering Mexico City's waters for traces of the DNA of an endangered salamander, the ...

First, DNA replication occurs only in one direction (5’ to 3’). Second, DNA unwinding and DNA polymerization have to be coordinated to avoid formation of large single stranded (ss) DNA regions.