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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of supercoil.

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  • (such as supercoiled plasmid DNA or siRNA constructs), or even proteins such as antibodies, may be transfected.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

  • For many years, the method of choice for supercoiled plasmid and virus DNA purification was cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation in the presence of an intercalation agent (such as ethidium bromide or propidium iodide).

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  • This technique, which is expensive in terms of both equipment and materials, segregates the supercoiled (plasmid) DNA from linear chromosomal and nicked circular DNA according to buoyant density, enabling the collection of high purity plasmid DNA.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • In the native state, circular plasmid DNA molecules exhibit a tertiary supercoiled conformation that twists the double helix around itself several times.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Two complementary strands of the molecule twist and fold into a supercoiled helix, a helix within a helix, yielding a ball less than 5 millionths of a meter approximately one one hundred thousandth of an inch in diameter.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Two complementary strands of the molecule twist and fold into a supercoiled helix, a helix within a helix, yielding a ball less than 5 millionths of a meter approximately one one hundred thousandth of an inch in diameter.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • The scattered foci of gravity nodes that give the Werld its unique contours also magnetize space in. such a way that the unwinding of your supercoiled DNA is inhibited.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • The positional gene organization confirmed by the 28-kb period suggests that there might be an assortment of small supercoiled loops, with variable sizes, that preserve positional networks.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Anthony Mathelier 2010

  • A new DNA vehicle for nonviral gene delivery: supercoiled minicircle.

    Pharmalicensing.com 2010

  • A new DNA vehicle for nonviral gene delivery: supercoiled minicircle.

    Pharmalicensing.com 2010

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