Rolesets - supercoil

supercoil

supercoil.01 - topographical twisting behavior of DNA helixes

SUPERCOIL-V, SUPERCOILING-N NOTES: Added by Julia for clearearth-biotexts.

Aliases:

supercoil (v.)
super_coil (v.)
supercoiling (n.)
super_coiling (n.)
supercoiled (j.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: cause of supercoiling
ARG1-PPT: DNA
ARG2-MNR: direction of twist (positive/negative, over/underwound)
ARG3-VSP: twist measurement, Tw (number of twists)
ARG4-MNR: writhe configuration (toroid/plectonemic, figure 8)
ARG5-VSP: writhe measurement, Wr
ARG6-VSP: degree of supercoiling (This is a specific measurment, σ=ΔLk/Lk˳ where Lk is the sum of Wr and Tw)

supercoiling-n

PositiveARG2
toroidalARG4
supercoilingrel
should therefore result in the absence of a strong countering histone dimer : dimer interaction .

supercoiling-n

positiveARG2
supercoilingrel
with a writhe number of +1ARG5
must be generated in the DNA segments adjacent to the DNA histone complex

supercoil-v: with arg6

Thus , this is the thermodynamic force experienced by
plasmid DNAARG1
supercoiledrel
to the x - axis intercept valueARG6
.