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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
superhelix , the shape formed by a helix twisted into a helix
Etymologies
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superhelix + -ical
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Examples
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Jerome Vinograd in an adjacent laboratory had discovered the superhelical structure of animal virus genomes.
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Besides the experimental evidence of chromosomal superhelical formation, a chromosome structuring into four macrodomains was observed with fluorescent microscopy in
Naturejobs - All Jobs Anthony Mathelier 2010
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Woelfle MA, Xu Y, Qin X, Johnson CH (2007) Circadian rhythms of superhelical status of DNA in cyanobacteria.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rekha Pattanayek et al. 2009
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Figure 3C), and this suggests that the chromosomal superhelical structure might likely not be a regular spiral.
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