Article: DNA Gyrase Is Involved in Chloroplast Nucleoid Partitioning

Article: DNA gyrase genes are species-specific.
Tuberculosis Week;  May 5, 2003 ;     531 words ... ... NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- DNA gyrase genes can be used to identify mycobacterial ... QRDRs) in the A and B subunits of DNA gyrase is the molecular test for the detection ... quinolone resistance-determining regions of DNA gyrase genes. J Clin Microbiol, 2003;41 ...

Article: Computational Analysis of DNA Gyrase Action
Biophysical Journal;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT DNA gyrase introduces negative supercoiling into ... reaction selectivity for a model of DNA gyrase action that assumes existence of a free ... analysis, is suggested. INTRODUCTION DNA gyrase is a bacterial enzyme that introduces ...

Article: Perlegen Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Developmental ...
Business Wire;  October 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ...MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & TUEBINGEN, Germany -- Perlegen Sciences, Inc., the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies announced today that they will collaborate to identify the DNA variation in twenty strains of the plant, Arabidopsis thaliana.

Article: The fluoroquinolones
Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... topoisomerases exist. The quinolones target DNA gyrase (also termed "topoisomerase type II ... are not targets of the quinolones). DNA gyrase removes the excess positive supercoiling ... of enzymes replicating DNA. Without DNA gyrase-mediated relaxation, this excess positive ...

Article: Synthetic peptide used to study antibacterial drug class ...
Health & Medicine Week;  November 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... replication whose target is the enzyme DNA gyrase, an ATP-dependent bacterial type II ... binding to the ATP-binding site of DNA gyrase B protein. "The production of new biologically ... wrote, "a 4.2-kDa peptide mimic of DNA gyrase B protein from Escherichia coli has been ...

Article: Energy-saving bacteria resist antibiotics.
NewsRx Science;  September 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Mycobacterium tuberculosis also stops the enzyme DNA gyrase from working, which in turn stops DNA replication ... components does not affect its ability to inhibit DNA gyrase and vice versa. DNA gyrase is involved in DNA replication, which happens ...

Article: New enzyme research from University of Madras outlined.
Biotech Week;  October 7, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Previous studies indicated that inhibition of DNA gyrase by antibiotics that act on the DNA gyrase A subunit results in turning on the recA ... that antisense ribozymes that act on the DNA gyrase A subunit can also induce recA. We used ...