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Kinetics of DNA Elongation

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Specialties Biochemistry
Biophysics
Date 2017 Jul 21
PMID 28726097
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Abstract

A mathematical model of the DNA elongation stage is proposed, and a formula for calculating the characteristic time of doubling a DNA strand consisting of a large numbers of nucleotides was derived. It is shown that, when the number of nucleotides is greater than 50, it is fair to use a linear dependence of the elongation time on the number of nucleotides. Calculations of the DNA elongation time for a number of organisms are given.

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