Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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The non-lethal nature of the mutations in the DNA gyrase.
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The enzyme DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) gyrase is responsible for catalyzing ATP (adenosine triphosphate)-dependent negative supercoiling of the double-stranded closed circular DNA. DNA gyrase comes under topoisomerase class that functions to control the topological transitions of DNA.
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