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Cruciform structures in supercoiled DNA

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Specific sites in supercoiled pVH51 and pBR322 DNAs are cleaved by single-strand specific nucleases. These sites are in the loops of potential cruciform structures.

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Panayotatos, N., Wells, R. Cruciform structures in supercoiled DNA. Nature 289, 466–470 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289466a0

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