Electron affinity: The enthalpy change that results from adding an electron to a gaseous atom.

Electron affinity is becoming less negative (less exothermic) and less likely to gain an electron. 

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Each DnaB-DnaC complex consists of six DnaC monomers bound to a hexamer of DnaB

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he prepriming complex generates a protein aggregate of 480 kD, which corresponds to a sphere of radius 6 nm

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Each DnaB activates a DnaG primase-in one case to initiate the leading strand, and in the other to initiate the first Okazaki fragment of the lagging strand

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Gyrase, a type II topoisomerase, provides a swivel that allows one DNA strand to rotate around the other.

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The protein single-strand binding protein (SSB) stabilizes the single-stranded DNA as it is formed and modulates the helicase activity.

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The length of duplex DNA that usually is unwound to initiate replicati011 is probably <60 bp.