Spaghetti Junctions (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Spaghetti Junctions

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Multichromosome Holliday junctions, modeled with spaghetti. Twisted spaghetti strands represen t DNA strands that have crossed multiple times. Such multiple crossovers were seen in yeast with a nonfunctioning SGS1 gene.

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Neil Hunter, UC Davis

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