“The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life”
Job 33:4
The Gyrase then manipulates end B over above the black strand, and lines it up with end A
The Gyrase then GLUES the two ends, A and B together!
HELICASE
Gillian Gyrase
A cut above the rest
GYRASE
Gyrase is an an enzyme that relieves the accumulated winding strain generated during unwinding of the DNA double helix.
TOPOISOMERASE I
also known as
The Gyrase cuts the red strand of the the DNA here
This leaves us with two loose ends -
STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
The Gyrase, having ‘cut out’ one twist, thereby relieves the coiling strain
The Helicase and the Gyrase work in tandem as they proceed along the DNA strands
Clever stuff!
Glue
The DNA now looks like this
CREATION
Part Two