Structural basis of chiral wrap and T-segment capture by Escherichia coli DNA gyrase
(2024)
Journal Article
Michalczyk, E., Pakosz-Stępień, Z., Liston, J. D., Gittins, O., Pabis, M., Heddle, J. G., & Ghilarov, D. (2024). Structural basis of chiral wrap and T-segment capture by Escherichia coli DNA gyrase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(49), Article e2407398121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407398121
Type II topoisomerase DNA gyrase transduces the energy of ATP hydrolysis into the negative supercoiling of DNA. The postulated catalytic mechanism involves stabilization of a chiral DNA loop followed by the passage of the T-segment through the tempor...
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