Cruciform DNA Diagram (IMAGE)

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Cruciform DNA Diagram

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Twisting palindromic DNA in the opposite direction of it's helix causes arms to sprout from the middle, turning it into the cruciform version and shortening the molecule.

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Alexandre Dawid, Fabien Guillemot, Camille Breme, Vincent Croquette, and Francois Heslot, Phys. Rev. Lett. in production

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