HELICASE 1 (IMAGE)

Rice University

HELICASE 1

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A helicase protein model created at Rice University shows a before-and-after of how the six-sided ring moves along DNA to split double strands into single strands in response to ATP hydrolysis during replication.

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Shikai Jin/Rice University

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