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supercoiled plasmid (medicine)


supercoiled plasmid
<molecular biology> The predominant in vivo form of plasmids, in which the plasmid is coiled around histone-like proteins.

Supporting proteins are stripped away during extraction from the bacterial cell, causing the plasmid molecule to supercoil around itself in vitro.