Reverse gyrase—a topoisomerase which introduces positive superhelical turns into DNA

DNA gyrase: an enzyme that introduces superhelical turns into DNA.

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DNA Topoisomerases

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Cruciform structures in supercoiled DNA

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Left-handed Z-DNA is induced by supercoiling in physiological ionic conditions

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A Sign Inversion Mechanism for Enzymatic Supercoiling of DNA

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ATP-dependent DNA topoisomerase from D. melanogaster reversibly catenates duplex DNA rings

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Linking numbers and nucleosomes.

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Mutations in the gene coding for Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase I affect transcription and transposition.

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T4 DNA topoisomerase: a new ATP-dependent enzyme essential for initiation of T4 bacteriophage DNA replication

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Nucleotide sequence of small ColE1 derivatives: Structure of the regions essential for autonomous replication and colicin E1 immunity

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Novel topologically knotted DNA from bacteriophage P4 capsids: studies with DNA topoisomerases

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Structure of chromatin and the linking number of DNA.

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Cruciform formation in a negatively supercoiled DNA may be kinetically forbidden under physiological conditions

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Micrococcus luteus DNA gyrase: active components and a model for its supercoiling of DNA.

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Site-specific relaxation and recombination by the Tn3 resolvase: Recognition of the DNA path between oriented res sites

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Nicking-closing activity associated with bacteriophage lambda int gene product.

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Pseudogenes for human small nuclear RNA U3 appear to arise by integration of self-primed reverse transcripts of the RNA into new chromosomal sites

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Yeast DNA topoisomerase II. An ATP-dependent type II topoisomerase that catalyzes the catenation, decatenation, unknotting, and relaxation of double-stranded DNA rings.

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Unwinding of double-stranded DNA helix by dehydration.

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Adenovirus DNA replication in vitro: synthesis of full-length DNA with purified proteins.

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A topoisomerase from Escherichia coli related to DNA gyrase.

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In vitro catenation and decatenation of DNA and a novel eucaryotic ATP-dependent topoisomerase

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Detection of an altered DNA conformation at specific sites in chromatin and supercoiled DNA.

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A plasmid in the archaebacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

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Nicking-closing enzyme assembles nucleosome-like structures in vitro.

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Structural homology between different archaebacterial DNA‐dependent RNA polymerases analyzed by immunological comparison of their components

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Identification and localization of a gene that specifies production of Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase I.

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Production of positively supercoiled DNA by netropsin

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Supercoiling and the mechanism of restriction endonucleases

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Widespread distribution of archaeal reverse gyrase in thermophilic bacteria suggests a complex history of vertical inheritance and lateral gene transfers

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Environmental Adaptation from the Origin of Life to the Last Universal Common Ancestor

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Speculations on the origin of life and thermophily: Review of available information on reverse gyrase suggests that hyperthermophilic procaryotes are not so primitive

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DNA Topoisomerases from Streptomyces and Their Inhibition by Some Antibiotic and Antitumoractive Agents

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Basis for the discrimination of supercoil handedness during DNA cleavage by human and bacterial type II topoisomerases

Jian, J., McCarty, K. D., Byl, J. A. W., et al. (2023) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkad190 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

An atypical type II topoisomerase from Mycobacterium smegmatis with positive supercoiling activity

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Microbial DNA topoisomerases and their inhibition by antibiotics

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Sedimentation Analysis of Bacterial Nucleoid Structure

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