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base-pair breathing

noun

Definitions

  1. The transient, lateral opening of a base pair in a nucleic acid molecule as a result of…

    The transient, lateral opening of a base pair in a nucleic acid molecule as a result of thermal motion or the presence of a defect

    • Intercalation is an energetically favourable process, and thus relates to the dynamic base-pair breathing properties of DNA itself.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for base-pair breathing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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