Rates of gyrase supercoiling and transcription elongation control supercoil density in a bacterial chromosome.

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Gyrase catalyzes negative supercoiling of DNA in an ATP-dependent reaction that helps condense bacterial chromosomes into a compact interwound "nucleoid." The supercoil density (σ) of prokaryotic DNA occurs in two forms. Diffusible supercoil density (σ(D)) moves freely around the chromosome in 10 kb domains, and constrained supercoil density (σ(C)) results from binding abundant proteins that bend, loop, or unwind...

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