Holliday Junction Map (IMAGE)

Rice University

Holliday Junction Map

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The orange wheel shows the circular chromosome or genome of E. coli bacteria. The spikes indicate where a molecular intermediate in DNA repair -- four-way DNA junctions -- accumulate near a reparable double strand break in the genome.

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Image courtesy of Jun Xia and Qian Mei

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