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Science 17 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5802, pp. 1097 - 1098
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135746
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
RNA Polymerase, a Scrunching Machine

Jeffrey W. Roberts

RNA polymerase stores energy to break its initial bonds with DNA by scrunching the single strands of DNA that were unwound in the region where the polymerase started RNA synthesis.

The author is in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. E-mail: jwr7{at}cornell.edu

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