HELICASE (VIDEO)

Rice University

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A simulation shows how a six-sided helicase protein moves along a strand of DNA as it separates double strands into single strands during replication. Rice University theorists found that ATP hydrolysis is key to the proteins' stair-step motion. One complete step is seen here.

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Yang Gao/Shikai Jin/Rice University

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