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The Digital Genome

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Flipons are scattered through the genome. They switch between the regular B-conformation and an alternate DNA structure. There are different classes of flipons with different numbers of DNA strands ( 2 for Z-DNA, 3 for a triplex and 4 for a quadruplex) and DNA sequence requirements. Flipons alter how a chromosome is read out. The message produced depends on the flipon conformation. They act as digital switches to turn one message on or another message off.

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Alan Herbert

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