New research pioneered by The University of Western Australia is shedding light on the intricate dance between proteins, DNA ...

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

In manufacturing the proteins it needs ... The twisted double strand structure -- the famed double helix -- unwinds and the strands separate. The nucleotides (A, T, G, and C) on each strand ...

The use of helix 3 to recognize bases in the major groove is conserved in other winged-helix proteins such as heat shock factor (HSF) 9, the E2F–DP heterodimer 10 and genesis 11, as well as in ...

In 1948, Linus Pauling discovered that many proteins take the shape of an alpha helix, spiraled like a spring coil. In 1950, biochemist Erwin Chargaff found that the arrangement of nitrogen bases ...

DNA topoisomerase enzymes facilitate DNA helix unwinding ... are covered by multiple copies of a single-strand DNA-binding protein, which hold the DNA template strands open with their bases ...

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This process of protein synthesis occurs in two stages ... The two strands of the DNA helix are unzipped by breaking of the weak Hydrogen bonds between base pairs. This unwinding of the helix ...