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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Topo II

Caption: James Berger, with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division, produced the first 3-D structural images of a DNA-bound topo II enzyme that's responsible for untangling coiled strands of chromosomes during cell division.

Credit: Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab, Creative Services Office

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