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DNA HELICASE
molecular biology> A prokaryote enzyme that uses the hydrolysis of ATP to unwind the DNAhelix at the replication fork, to let the resulting single strands to be copied. Two molecules of ATP are required for everynucleotidepair of the duplex.
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