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A schematic of the twin-supercoiled-domain model. During transcription, RNA polymerase must rotate relative to its helical DNA track. Owing to the size and typical confinement of the polymerase and associated machinery, the DNA is (+) supercoiled in front and (−) supercoiled behind. Adapted from Forth et al. (2013) with permission
