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Watching flipping junctions

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Real time measurements of conformational switching in single Holliday junctions reinforce the role of the junction in the site selection and branch migration steps of genetic recombination.

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Figure 1: Holliday junctions and genetic recombination.
Figure 2: Dynamics of four-way junction stacking conformers.

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