Term Details for "DNA duplex unwinding" (GO:0032508) (original) (raw)

Accession

GO:0032508

Name

DNA duplex unwinding

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

DNA unwinding, duplex DNA melting

Alternate IDs

None

Definition

The process in which interchain hydrogen bonds between two strands of DNA are broken or 'melted', generating a region of unpaired single strands.Source: GOC:isa_complete,GOC:mah

Comment

Note that this term refers to a geometric change in DNA conformation, and should not be confused with 'DNA topological change ; GO:0006265'.

History

See term history for GO:0032508 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

None

Subset

None

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