Resistance to a class of antibiotics targeting these enzymes often disrupts a water–metal ion bridge that chelates the drug’s keto acid. One of these enzymes from the vaccinia virus modifies a 3-prime thymidine in a namesake cloning method. An inhibitor of these enzymes was isolated from the barks of Camptotheca trees, derivatives of which include irinotecan and a related drug partially named after them. These enzymes create a “gate” for the T-segment to cross in the “strand passage” mechanism. Ciprofloxacin (“sip-ro-flox-uh-sin”) and other fluoroquinolones (“fluoro-quino-lones”) target these enzymes, which can resolve catenanes. Bacteria use a type of these enzymes called gyrase that generates negative supercoils and changes the linking number by two. For 10 points, name these enzymes that relieve torsional stress in DNA. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 111.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 50% | 0% | 40% | 118.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 96.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 60% | 104.50 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 43% | 104.17 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 96.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 113.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 43% | 112.40 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 104.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 89.71 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 25% | 122.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | CWRU B | 44 | -5 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Chicago B | 49 | -5 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Harvard B | 51 | -5 |
| Nihal Jacob | Kentucky | Vanderbilt B | 51 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins B | 53 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Purdue B | 54 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago D | 59 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | NYU C | 59 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Vassar | 74 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | UCL | 78 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 78 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham | Imperial A | 79 | -5 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale | Brandeis A | 83 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Carleton College | 85 | -5 |
| Maddie Baldwin | Michigan State | Michigan C | 89 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida B | 95 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton B | Imperial B | 95 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 95 | -5 |
| Shiva Tequila | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 98 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame A | Indiana B | 98 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT | Southern Connecticut State | 98 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 100 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 100 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto G | Carleton University | 102 | -5 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's | Toronto Metropolitan | 102 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Northwestern C | 102 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Claremont | 104 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Catholic | 106 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Brock | 107 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Dartmouth B | 107 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Bruin | 107 | -5 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | John Jay | 107 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Columbia C | 107 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 108 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Toronto E | 109 | -5 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | Ohio State A | 109 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech C | Alabama B | 109 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | WashU A | 109 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Manchester | 109 | -5 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Edinburgh A | Oxford C | 109 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | Washington A | 112 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell B | 112 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Murray State A | 117 | 10 |
| Dawson Teu | Waterloo B | McGill B | 118 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 118 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Sewanee | 118 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 119 | -5 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida A | 119 | -5 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Chicago C | 119 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Edinburgh B | 119 | 10 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Southampton A | 121 | 10 |
| Zach Hertz | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 122 | 0 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McGill A | 122 | 0 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Toronto G | 122 | 10 |
| Charlotte Wilcox | Western C | McMaster A | 122 | 0 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Ottawa | 122 | 0 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Western B | 122 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | McMaster B | 122 | 0 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | Western A | 122 | 0 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western C | 122 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | UBC B | Toronto C | 122 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Central Florida C | 122 | 0 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | Michigan A | 122 | 0 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State C | Pittsburgh | 122 | 0 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | Michigan State | 122 | 0 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Northwestern B | 122 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Illinois B | 122 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Chicago A | 122 | 0 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Purdue A | 122 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Brown | 122 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin A | 122 | 0 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis B | Bowdoin B | 122 | 0 |
| Jeremy Ryu | Bowdoin B | Brandeis B | 122 | 0 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Dartmouth A | 122 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Missouri B | 122 | 0 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Washington B | 122 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Missouri A | 122 | 0 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Texas A&M A | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech D | 122 | 0 |
| Katie Farthing | Vanderbilt B | Kentucky | 122 | 10 |
| Elokkin Pate-Geames | Tennessee B | Mississipi State | 122 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Tennessee B | 122 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham | 122 | 0 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol | 122 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Cambridge C | 122 | 0 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | City St. George's | 122 | 0 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Oxford B | 122 | 0 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Southampton B | 122 | 0 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Imperial C | 122 | 0 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Warwick A | 122 | 0 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | Georgetown | 122 | 0 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 122 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Maryland C | 122 | 0 |
| Alan Li | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 122 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Binghamton B | 122 | 0 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell A | 122 | 0 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 122 | 0 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Rochester | 122 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | RIT | 122 | 10 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Penn State | 122 | 0 |