Intro: Gyrase is a protein involved in maintaining the negative supercoiled structure of DNA. It is a two subunit protein and its function in DNA is ATP dependent. Because of its function gyrase is involved in many DNA associated processes including replication, transcription and repair.
DNA Gyrase: Structure and Function
Reece, R.J.; Maxwell, A
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When viewing the space filled model, the outer region of the protein appeared to be variable while the inner region was more conserved. A link showing the space filled model is below
http://consurfdb.tau.ac.il/fgij/fg.htm?mol=/temp/1AB4A_ConSurf_DB_pipe.pdb
We had difficulty copying the space filled model into the blog. How can this be done?