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All are correct about DNA gyrase in E. coli EXCEPT:
 
  a. It is a topoisomerase that hydrolyzes ATP during its reaction mechanism.
  b. Its mechanism involves the breaking of a single phosphoester bond in one strand of dsDNA.
  c. It works to remove positive supercoiling introduced by the DnaB protein (helicase).
  d. It works to introduce negative supercoiling in DNA to overcome the torsion stress imposed upon unwinding.
  e. All are true.
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