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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: DNA Repair (Amst). 2014 Apr 18;19:84–94. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.03.023

Figure 1. Schematic representation of an R-loop structure.

Figure 1

The cartoon depicts the general structure of an R-loop. The nascent RNA strand (red) is synthesized by RNA polymerase (RNAP, red oval) and hybridizes with the complementary DNA template strand. The non-template strand is exposed as single-stranded DNA (ssDNA).