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Drosophila melanogaster topoisomerase IIIalpha preferentially relaxes a positively or negatively supercoiled bubble substrate and is essential during development.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 4 Feb 2005
Plank Jody L, Chu Shin Hai, Pohlhaus Jennifer Reineke, Wilson-Sali Tina, Hsieh Tao-Shih
Abstract excerpt
Eukaryotic type IA topoisomerases are important for the normal function of the cell, and in some cases essential for the organism, although their role in DNA metabolism remains to be elucidated. In this study, we cloned Drosophila melanogaster topoisomerase (topo) IIIalpha from an embryonic cDNA...
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