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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 182, Issue 17, Pages 4998-5000Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.17.4998-5000.2000
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We present evidence that, in contrast to plasmids from other hyperthermophilic archaea, which are in the relaxed to positively supercoiled state, plasmid pGS5 (2.8 kb) from Archaeoglobus profundus is negatively supercoiled. This might be due to the presence of a gyrase introducing negative supercoils, since gyrase genes are present in the genome of its close relative A. fulgidus, and suggests that gyrase activity predominates over reverse gyrase whenever the two topoisomerases coexist in cells.
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