Superhelix

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title: Superhelix
text: A superhelix is a molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix. This is significant to both proteins and genetic material, such as overwound circular DNA. The earliest significant reference in molecular biology is from 1971, by F. B. Fuller: About the writhing number, mathematician W. F. Pohl says: Contrary to intuition, a topological property, the linking number, arises from the geometric properties twist and writhe according to the following relationship: where Lk is the
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