Binding to supercoiled DNA. For example, during replication and transcription, template DNA is negatively supercoiled in the receding downstream DNA and positively supercoiled in the approaching downstream DNA. [GOC:pr, GOC:rph, PMID:20723754, PMID:21345933, Wikipedia:DNA_supercoil]
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M5: Ontology GO: Gene Ontology GO:MF: GO Molecular Function
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