Solution To The 50-Year-Old Okazaki-Fragment Problem: Commentary
Solution To The 50-Year-Old Okazaki-Fragment Problem: Commentary
Solution To The 50-Year-Old Okazaki-Fragment Problem: Commentary
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
Author contributions: P.M.B. wrote the paper.
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some of the small fragments detected in pulse-labeling studies tribution was observed, centered around 80 kb (Fig. 2B, green curve).
came from the study of an E. coli sof (for short Okazaki fragment) Importantly, >90% of the small fragments mapped to the lagging
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