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RESULTS<br />

techniques. Potassium permanganate reacts with bases, especially thymine, where the<br />

base-stacking in the DNA duplex is disrupted [Gralla et al., 1993]. In these experiments<br />

Figure 20: in vitro transcription from tyrTwild-type and tyrTD at different supercoiling.<br />

(A) In vitro transcription at different superhelical densities from tyrT wild-type, tyrTD and reference bla<br />

promoters is shown. (B) Fold activation <strong>of</strong> transcription <strong>by</strong> FIS from tyrT wild-type and tyrT D at<br />

different superhelical densities.<br />

RNA polymerase was used in large excess to promoter DNA and the complexes were<br />

equilibrated for 30 minutes prior to a short exposure to permanganate ion. Figure 21A<br />

(lanes 1 and 2) shows that addition <strong>of</strong> RNA polymerase to the wild-type promoter did<br />

not alter the reactivity pattern on native supercoiled plasmid DNA (σ = −0.068). By<br />

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