Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TorsionAtLamina (TWISTING THE BOUNDARIES: ROLE OF TOPOISOMERASE 1 AT THE NUCLEAR LAMINA)

The DNA contained in one single cellular nucleus is 2 meters longs when stretched on a linear scale. Thus, fitting in a nucleus that is usually not bigger than 2 micrometers, requires that DNA has a high degree of compaction (1000000 times!!) and to achieve this the genome...