Mutational analysis of Escherichia coli topoisomerase IV. III. Identification of a region of parE involved in covalent catalysis.

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The products of three dominant-negative alleles of parE, encoding the ATP-binding subunit of topoisomerase IV (Topo IV), were purified and their activities characterized when reconstituted with ParC to form Topo IV. The ability of the ParE E418K, ParE G419D, and ParE G442D mutant Topo IVs to bind DNA, hydrolyze ATP, and close their ATP-dependent clamp was relatively unaffected. However, their ability to relax...

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