Thermophiles possess reverse DNA gyrase, which catalyzes the positive supercoiling of closed circular DNA (by contrast, nonhyperthermophiles contain DNA gyrase, an enzyme that supercoils DNA in a negative twisted fashion), Hope this helps.
I had gone through 3-4 research papers i got much information but its concluded that even though reverse gyrase adds positive coils its nothing to do with stability of hyperthermophiles......i wants to know more about this can u please tell me currently who is working on this topic.
True, yet while some have found conflicting results, others still see its role in DNA stability. For example, check out Jamrose et al. 2013 J Biolog. Chem. Taken from their abstract: " Our results suggest for the first time that a reverse gyrase shares not only structural but also functional features with evolutionary conserved helicase-topoisomerase complexes involved in genome stability".