reverse gyrase
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reverse gyrase
an ATPase enzyme with a DNA helicase-like domain and a type-I (DNA) topoisomerase in the same protein. It is able to induce positive suercoiling into DNA, a property of DNA that is found only in bacteria that express this enzyme.
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