Scrabble?! SUPERHELIX

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A superhelix is a molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix. This is significant to both proteins and genetic material, such as overwound circular DNA. The earliest significant reference in molecular biology is from 1971, by F.B. Fuller: A geometric invariant of a space curve, the writhing number, is defined and studied. For the central curve of a twisted cord the writhing number measures the extent to which coiling of the central curve has relieved local twisting of the cord. This study originated in response to questions that arise in the study of supercoiled double-stranded DNA rings. About the writhing number, mathematician W.F. Pohl says: It is well known that the writhing number is a standard measure of the global geometry of a closed space curve. Contrary to intuition, a topological property, the linking number, arises from the geometric properties twist and writhe according to the following relationship: Lk = T + W,where Lk is the linking number, W