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supercoiled

supercoiled is the simple past and past participle of supercoil.

Meaning of supercoil

Verb

supercoil (third-person singular simple present supercoils, present participle supercoiling, simple past and past participle supercoiled)

  1. To twist circular DNA into a supercoil.
    • After deproteination, the migration of the assembled form II DNA will remain unchanged, appearing not to have been supercoiled by nucleosomes.1995, Sara J. Felts, “Assembly and Transcription of Chromatin Templates Using RNA Polymerase III”, in Martin J. Tymms, editor, In Vitro Transcription and Translation Protocols, →ISBN, page 58

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Questions about supercoiled

What is supercoiled the simple past and past participle of?
Supercoiled is the simple past and past participle of supercoil.

Words near supercoiled in the dictionary

  1. supercoherence
  2. supercoherent
  3. supercohort
  4. supercohorts
  5. supercoil
  6. supercoiled
  7. supercoiling
  8. supercoils
  9. supercold
  10. supercollaborative
  11. supercollapsar

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