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Alam SR, Mahadevan MS, Periasamy A. Detecting RNA-Protein Interactions With EGFP-Cy3 FRET by Acceptor Photobleaching. Curr Protoc 2023; 3:e689. [PMID: 36821783 DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is a great tool for cell biologists to investigate molecular interactions in live specimens. FRET is a distance-dependent phenomenon which can detect molecular interactions at distances between 1-10 nm. Several FRET approaches are reported in the literature for live and fixed cells to study protein-protein interactions; this protocol provides details of acceptor photobleaching as a FRET method to study RNA-Protein interactions. Cy3-labeled RNA foci (FRET acceptors) are photobleached at the intra-cellular site of interest (the nuclei) and the intensity of the EGFP-tagged proteins (FRET donors) at that same site are measured pre- and post- photobleaching. In principle, FRET is detected if the intensity of EGFP increases after photobleaching of Cy3. This protocol describes necessary steps and appropriate controls to conduct FRET measurements by the acceptor photobleaching method. Successful applications of this protocol will provide data to support the conclusion that EGFP-labeled proteins directly interact with Cy3-labeled RNA at the site of photobleaching. © 2023 The Authors. Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol: FRET in fixed cells Alternate Protocol: FRET in live cells.
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- Shagufta Rehman Alam
- W. M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- W. M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.,Departments of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Dual-Channel Stopped-Flow Apparatus for Simultaneous Fluorescence, Anisotropy, and FRET Kinetic Data Acquisition for Binary and Ternary Biological Complexes. BIOSENSORS 2020; 10:bios10110180. [PMID: 33227895 PMCID: PMC7699296 DOI: 10.3390/bios10110180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 10/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The Stopped-Flow apparatus (SF) tracks molecular events by mixing the reactants in sub-millisecond regimes. The reaction of intrinsically or extrinsically labeled biomolecules can be monitored by recording the fluorescence, F(t), anisotropy, r(t), polarization, p(t), or FRET, F(t)FRET, traces at nanomolar concentrations. These kinetic measurements are critical to elucidate reaction mechanisms, structural information, and even thermodynamics. In a single detector SF, or L-configuration, the r(t), p(t), and F(t) traces are acquired by switching the orientation of the emission polarizer to collect the IVV and IVH signals however it requires two-shot experiments. In a two-detector SF, or T-configuration, these traces are collected in a single-shot experiment, but it increases the apparatus’ complexity and price. Herein, we present a single-detector dual-channel SF to obtain the F(t) and r(t) traces simultaneously, in which a photo-elastic modulator oscillates by 90° the excitation light plane at a 50 kHz frequency, and the emission signal is processed by a set of electronic filters that split it into the r(t) and F(t) analog signals that are digitized and stored into separated spreadsheets by a custom-tailored instrument control software. We evaluated the association kinetics of binary and ternary biological complexes acquired with our dual-channel SF and the traditional methods; such as a single polarizer at the magic angle to acquire F(t), a set of polarizers to track F(t), and r(t), and by energy transfer quenching, F(t)FRET. Our dual-channel SF economized labeled material and yielded rate constants in excellent agreement with the traditional methods.
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Boguszewska K, Szewczuk M, Urbaniak S, Karwowski BT. Review: immunoassays in DNA damage and instability detection. Cell Mol Life Sci 2019; 76:4689-4704. [PMID: 31342119 PMCID: PMC6858475 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-019-03239-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Revised: 06/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The review includes information on the current state of knowledge of immunometric methods with emphasis on the possibility of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage detection. Beginning with basic immunoassay enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), this review describes methods such as tyramide signal amplification (TSA), enhanced polymer one-step staining (EPOS), and time resolved amplified cryptate emission (TRACE) as improvements of ELISA's developed over time to obtain more accurate results. In the second part of the review, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and quantum dots (QDs) are presented as the newest outlooks in the context of immunoanalysis of biological material and molecular studies. The aim of this review is to briefly present immunoassays with emphasis on DNA damage detection; therefore, the types of methods are listed and described, types of signal indicators, basic definitions such as antigen and antibody are given. Every method is considered with an exemplary application focusing on DNA studies, DNA damage and instability detection.
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- Karolina Boguszewska
- DNA Damage Laboratory of Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszynskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland.
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- DNA Damage Laboratory of Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszynskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland
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- DNA Damage Laboratory of Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszynskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland
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- DNA Damage Laboratory of Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszynskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland.
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Delgadillo RF, Mueser TC, Zaleta-Rivera K, Carnes KA, González-Valdez J, Parkhurst LJ. Detailed characterization of the solution kinetics and thermodynamics of biotin, biocytin and HABA binding to avidin and streptavidin. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0204194. [PMID: 30818336 PMCID: PMC6394990 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The high affinity (KD ~ 10−15 M) of biotin for avidin and streptavidin is the essential component in a multitude of bioassays with many experiments using biotin modifications to invoke coupling. Equilibration times suggested for these assays assume that the association rate constant (kon) is approximately diffusion limited (109 M-1s-1) but recent single molecule and surface binding studies indicate that they are slower than expected (105 to 107 M-1s-1). In this study, we asked whether these reactions in solution are diffusion controlled, which reaction model and thermodynamic cycle describes the complex formation, and if there are any functional differences between avidin and streptavidin. We have studied the biotin association by two stopped-flow methodologies using labeled and unlabeled probes: I) fluorescent probes attached to biotin and biocytin; and II) unlabeled biotin and HABA, 2-(4’-hydroxyazobenzene)-benzoic acid. Both native avidin and streptavidin are homo-tetrameric and the association data show no cooperativity between the binding sites. The kon values of streptavidin are faster than avidin but slower than expected for a diffusion limited reaction in both complexes. Moreover, the Arrhenius plots of the kon values revealed strong temperature dependence with large activation energies (6–15 kcal/mol) that do not correspond to a diffusion limited process (3–4 kcal/mol). Accordingly, we propose a simple reaction model with a single transition state for non-immobilized reactants whose forward thermodynamic parameters complete the thermodynamic cycle, in agreement with previously reported studies. Our new understanding and description of the kinetics, thermodynamics, and spectroscopic parameters for these complexes will help to improve purification efficiencies, molecule detection, and drug screening assays or find new applications.
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- Roberto F. Delgadillo
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- * E-mail: (RFD); (LJP)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America
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- GlaxoSmithKline, Medicinal Science and Technology, R&D, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Science, NL, Monterrey, Mexico
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- * E-mail: (RFD); (LJP)
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Lukina MV, Koval VV, Lomzov AA, Zharkov DO, Fedorova OS. Global DNA dynamics of 8-oxoguanine repair by human OGG1 revealed by stopped-flow kinetics and molecular dynamics simulation. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2018; 13:1954-1966. [PMID: 28770925 DOI: 10.1039/c7mb00343a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The toxic action of different endogenous and exogenous agents leads to damage in genomic DNA. 8-Oxoguanine is one of the most often generated and highly mutagenic oxidative forms of damage in DNA. Normally, in human cells it is promptly removed by 8-oxoguanine-DNA-glycosylase hOGG1, the key DNA-repair enzyme. An association between the accumulation of oxidized guanine and an increased risk of harmful processes in organisms was already found. However, the detailed mechanism of damaged base recognition and removal is still unclear. To clarify the role of active site amino acids in the damaged base coordination and to reveal the elementary steps in the overall enzymatic process we investigated hOGG1 mutant forms with substituted amino acid residues in the enzyme base-binding pocket. Replacing the functional groups of the enzyme active site allowed us to change the rates of the individual steps of the enzymatic reaction. To gain further insight into the mechanism of hOGG1 catalysis a detailed pre-steady state kinetic study of this enzymatic process was carried out using the stopped-flow approach. The changes in the DNA structure after mixing with enzymes were followed by recording the FRET signal using Cy3/Cy5 labels in DNA substrates in the time range from milliseconds to hundreds of seconds. DNA duplexes containing non-damaged DNA, 8-oxoG, or an AP-site or its unreactive synthetic analogue were used as DNA-substrates. The kinetic parameters of DNA binding and damage processing were obtained for the mutant forms and for WT hOGG1. The analyses of fluorescence traces provided information about the DNA dynamics during damage recognition and removal. The kinetic study for the mutant forms revealed that all introduced substitutions reduced the efficiency of the hOGG1 activity; however, they played pivotal roles at certain elementary stages identified during the study. Taken together, our results gave the opportunity to restore the role of substituted amino acids and main "damaged base-amino acid" contacts, which provide an important link in the understanding the mechanism of the DNA repair process catalyzed by hOGG1.
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- M V Lukina
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave., 8, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Kim JE, Choi JH, Colas M, Kim DH, Lee H. Gold-based hybrid nanomaterials for biosensing and molecular diagnostic applications. Biosens Bioelectron 2016; 80:543-559. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2016.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2015] [Revised: 01/23/2016] [Accepted: 02/06/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Fenyk S, Townsend PD, Dixon CH, Spies GB, de San Eustaquio Campillo A, Slootweg EJ, Westerhof LB, Gawehns FKK, Knight MR, Sharples GJ, Goverse A, Pålsson LO, Takken FLW, Cann MJ. The Potato Nucleotide-binding Leucine-rich Repeat (NLR) Immune Receptor Rx1 Is a Pathogen-dependent DNA-deforming Protein. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:24945-60. [PMID: 26306038 PMCID: PMC4599002 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.672121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Revised: 08/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins enable cells to respond to pathogen attack. Several NLRs act in the nucleus; however, conserved nuclear targets that support their role in immunity are unknown. Previously, we noted a structural homology between the nucleotide-binding domain of NLRs and DNA replication origin-binding Cdc6/Orc1 proteins. Here we show that the NB-ARC (nucleotide-binding, Apaf-1, R-proteins, and CED-4) domain of the Rx1 NLR of potato binds nucleic acids. Rx1 induces ATP-dependent bending and melting of DNA in vitro, dependent upon a functional P-loop. In situ full-length Rx1 binds nuclear DNA following activation by its cognate pathogen-derived effector protein, the coat protein of potato virus X. In line with its obligatory nucleocytoplasmic distribution, DNA binding was only observed when Rx1 was allowed to freely translocate between both compartments and was activated in the cytoplasm. Immune activation induced by an unrelated NLR-effector pair did not trigger an Rx1-DNA interaction. DNA binding is therefore not merely a consequence of immune activation. These data establish a role for DNA distortion in Rx1 immune signaling and define DNA as a molecular target of an activated NLR.
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- Stepan Fenyk
- From the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Biophysical Sciences Institute
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- From the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Biophysical Sciences Institute
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- From the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Biophysical Sciences Institute
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- From the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Biophysical Sciences Institute
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- the Laboratory of Nematology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands, and
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- the Laboratory of Nematology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands, and
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- Molecular Plant Pathology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- From the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Biophysical Sciences Institute
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- From the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Biophysical Sciences Institute
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- the Laboratory of Nematology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands, and
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Plant Pathology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- From the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Biophysical Sciences Institute,
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Ma ZY, Ruan YF, Zhang N, Zhao WW, Xu JJ, Chen HY. A new visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical biosensor for probing DNA–protein interactions. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:8381-4. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cc01832c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A novel photoelectrochemical approach was achieved for the detection of a DNA binding protein via the protein–DNA interaction.
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- Zheng-Yuan Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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Fluorescence methods in the investigation of the DEAD-box helicase mechanism. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 105:161-92. [PMID: 25095995 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0856-9_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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DEAD-box proteins catalyze the ATP-dependent unwinding of RNA duplexes and accompany RNA molecules throughout their cellular life. Conformational changes in the helicase core of DEAD-box proteins are intimately linked to duplex unwinding. In the absence of ligands, the two RecA domains of the helicase core are separated. ATP and RNA binding induces a closure of the cleft between the RecA domains that is coupled to the distortion of bound RNA, leading to duplex destabilization and dissociation of one RNA strand. Reopening of the helicase core occurs after ATP hydrolysis and is coupled to phosphate release and dissociation of the second RNA strand.Fluorescence spectroscopy provides an array of approaches to study intermolecular interactions, local structural rearrangements, or large conformational changes of biomolecules. The fluorescence intensity of a fluorophore reports on its environment, and fluorescence anisotropy reflects the size of the molecular entity the fluorophore is part of. Fluorescence intensity and anisotropy are therefore sensitive probes to report on binding and dissociation events. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) reports on the distance between two fluorophores and thus on conformational changes. Single-molecule FRET experiments reveal the distribution of conformational states and the kinetics of their interconversion. This chapter summarizes fluorescence approaches for monitoring individual aspects of DEAD-box protein activity, from nucleotide and RNA binding and RNA unwinding to protein and RNA conformational changes in the catalytic cycle, and illustrates exemplarily how fluorescence-based methods have contributed to understanding the mechanism of DEAD-box helicase-catalyzed RNA unwinding.
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Samanta A, Zhou Y, Zou S, Yan H, Liu Y. Fluorescence quenching of quantum dots by gold nanoparticles: a potential long range spectroscopic ruler. NANO LETTERS 2014; 14:5052-7. [PMID: 25084363 DOI: 10.1021/nl501709s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The dependence of quantum dot (QD) fluorescence emission on the proximity of 30 nm gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) was studied with controlled interparticle distances ranging from 15 to 70 nm. This was achieved by coassembling DNA-conjugated QDs and AuNPs in a 1:1 ratio at precise positions on a triangular-shaped DNA origami platform. A profound, long-range quenching of the photoluminescence intensity of the QDs was observed. A combination of static and time-resolved fluorescence measurements suggests that the quenching is due to an increase in the nonradiative decay rate of QD emission. Unlike FRET, the energy transfer is inversely proportional to the 2.7th power of the distance between nanoparticles with half quenching at ∼28 nm. This long-range quenching phenomena may be useful for developing extended spectroscopic rulers in the future.
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- Anirban Samanta
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for Molecular Design and Biomimicry, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University , 1001 South McAllister Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5601, United States
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Wang J, Zhao WW, Zhou H, Xu JJ, Chen HY. Amplified electrochemiluminescence detection of DNA-binding protein based on the synergy effect of electron and energy transfer between CdS nanocrystals and gold nanoparticles. Biosens Bioelectron 2013; 41:615-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2012.09.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Revised: 09/19/2012] [Accepted: 09/21/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Preus S, Wilhelmsson LM. Advances in quantitative FRET-based methods for studying nucleic acids. Chembiochem 2012; 13:1990-2001. [PMID: 22936620 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a powerful tool for monitoring molecular distances and interactions at the nanoscale level. The strong dependence of transfer efficiency on probe separation makes FRET perfectly suited for "on/off" experiments. To use FRET to obtain quantitative distances and three-dimensional structures, however, is more challenging. This review summarises recent studies and technological advances that have improved FRET as a quantitative molecular ruler in nucleic acid systems, both at the ensemble and at the single-molecule levels.
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- Søren Preus
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Travers AA, Muskhelishvili G, Thompson JMT. DNA information: from digital code to analogue structure. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2012; 370:2960-2986. [PMID: 22615471 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The digital linear coding carried by the base pairs in the DNA double helix is now known to have an important component that acts by altering, along its length, the natural shape and stiffness of the molecule. In this way, one region of DNA is structurally distinguished from another, constituting an additional form of encoded information manifest in three-dimensional space. These shape and stiffness variations help in guiding and facilitating the DNA during its three-dimensional spatial interactions. Such interactions with itself allow communication between genes and enhanced wrapping and histone-octamer binding within the nucleosome core particle. Meanwhile, interactions with proteins can have a reduced entropic binding penalty owing to advantageous sequence-dependent bending anisotropy. Sequence periodicity within the DNA, giving a corresponding structural periodicity of shape and stiffness, also influences the supercoiling of the molecule, which, in turn, plays an important facilitating role. In effect, the super-helical density acts as an analogue regulatory mode in contrast to the more commonly acknowledged purely digital mode. Many of these ideas are still poorly understood, and represent a fundamental and outstanding biological question. This review gives an overview of very recent developments, and hopefully identifies promising future lines of enquiry.
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- A A Travers
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
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Wang J, Zhao WW, Li XR, Xu JJ, Chen HY. Potassium-doped graphene enhanced electrochemiluminescence of SiO(2)@CdS nanocomposites for sensitive detection of TATA-binding protein. Chem Commun (Camb) 2012; 48:6429. [PMID: 22618486 DOI: 10.1039/c2cc32767h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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Based on the amplified signal from SiO(2)@CdS nanocomposites integrated with K-doped graphene, a new electrochemiluminescence biosensor was developed for the successful detection of transcription factor TATA-binding protein (TBP).
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- Jing Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
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Moyle-Heyrman G, Viswanathan R, Widom J, Auble DT. Two-step mechanism for modifier of transcription 1 (Mot1) enzyme-catalyzed displacement of TATA-binding protein (TBP) from DNA. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:9002-12. [PMID: 22298788 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.333484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The TATA box binding protein (TBP) is a central component of the transcription preinitiation complex, and its occupancy at a promoter is correlated with transcription levels. The TBP-promoter DNA complex contains sharply bent DNA and its interaction lifetime is limited by the ATP-dependent TBP displacement activity of the Snf2/Swi2 ATPase Mot1. Several mechanisms for Mot1 action have been proposed, but how it catalyzes TBP removal from DNA is unknown. To better understand the Mot1 mechanism, native gel electrophoresis and FRET were used to determine how Mot1 affects the trajectory of DNA in the TBP-DNA complex. Strikingly, in the absence of ATP, Mot1 acts to unbend DNA, whereas TBP remains closely associated with the DNA in a stable Mot1-TBP-DNA ternary complex. Interestingly, and in contrast to full-length Mot1, the isolated Mot1 ATPase domain binds DNA, and its affinity for DNA is nucleotide-dependent, suggesting parallels between the Mot1 mechanism and DNA translocation-based mechanisms of chromatin remodeling enzymes. Based on these findings, a model is presented for Mot1 that links a DNA conformational change with ATP-induced DNA translocation.
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Badali D, Gradinaru CC. The effect of Brownian motion of fluorescent probes on measuring nanoscale distances by Förster resonance energy transfer. J Chem Phys 2011; 134:225102. [PMID: 21682537 DOI: 10.1063/1.3598109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a powerful optical technique to determine intra-molecular distances. However, the dye rotational motion and the linker flexibility complicate the relationship between the measured energy transfer efficiency and the distance between the anchoring points of the dyes. In this study, we present a simple model that describes the linker and dye dynamics as diffusion on a sphere. Single-pair energy transfer was treated in the weak excitation limit, photon statistics and scaffold flexibility were ignored, and different time-averaging regimes were considered. Despite the approximations, our model provides new insights for experimental designs and results interpretation in single-molecule FRET. Monte Carlo simulations produced distributions of the inter-dye distance, the dipole orientation factor, κ(2), and the transfer efficiency, E, which were in perfect agreement with independently derived theoretical functions. Contrary to common perceptions, our data show that longer linkers will actually restrict the motion of dye dipoles and hence worsen the isotropic 2∕3 approximation of κ(2). It is also found that the thermal motions of the dye-linker system cause fast and large efficiency fluctuations, as shown by the simulated FRET time-trajectories binned on a microsecond time scale. A fundamental resolution limit of single-molecule FRET measurements emerges around 1-10 μs, which should be considered for the interpretation of data recorded on such fast time scales.
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- Daniel Badali
- Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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Huang F, Motlekar NA, Burgwin CM, Napper AD, Diamond SL, Mazin AV. Identification of specific inhibitors of human RAD51 recombinase using high-throughput screening. ACS Chem Biol 2011; 6:628-35. [PMID: 21428443 DOI: 10.1021/cb100428c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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RAD51 is a key protein of homologous recombination that plays a critical role in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) and interstrand cross-links (ICL). To better understand the cellular function(s) of human RAD51, we propose to develop specific RAD51 inhibitors. RAD51 inhibitors may also help to increase the potency of anticancer drugs that act by inducing DSBs or ICLs, e.g., cisplatin or ionizing radiation. In vitro, RAD51 promotes DNA strand exchange between homologous ss- and dsDNA. Here, we developed a DNA strand exchange assay based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer and used this assay to identify RAD51 inhibitors by high-throughput screening of the NIH Small Molecule Repository (>200,000 compounds). Seventeen RAD51 inhibitors were identified and analyzed for selectivity using additional nonfluorescent DNA-based assays. As a result, we identified a compound (B02) that specifically inhibited human RAD51 (IC(50) = 27.4 μM) but not its E. coli homologue RecA (IC(50) > 250 μM). Two other compounds (A03 and A10) were identified that inhibited both RAD51 and RecA but not the structurally unrelated RAD54 protein. The structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis allowed us to identify the structural components of B02 that are critical for RAD51 inhibition. The described approach can be used for identification of specific inhibitors of other human proteins that play an important role in DNA repair, e.g., RAD54 or Bloom's syndrome helicase.
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- Fei Huang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Penn center for Molecular Discovery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Penn center for Molecular Discovery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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- Penn center for Molecular Discovery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, United States
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Delgadillo RF, Whittington JE, Parkhurst LK, Parkhurst LJ. The TATA-binding protein core domain in solution variably bends TATA sequences via a three-step binding mechanism. Biochemistry 2010; 48:1801-9. [PMID: 19199812 DOI: 10.1021/bi8018724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Studies of the binding and bending of the AdMLP TATA sequence (TATAAAAG) by the core domain of yeast TBP allow quantitation of the roles of the N-terminal domains of yeast and human TBP. All three proteins bind DNA via a three-step mechanism with no evidence for an initially bound but unbent DNA. The large enthalpy and entropy of activation for the first step in yTBP binding can now be assigned to movement of the NTD from the DNA binding pocket and not to energetics of DNA bending. The energetic patterns for hTBP and cTBP suggest that the 158-amino acid NTD in hTBP does not initially occupy the DNA binding pocket. Despite the appearance of similar energetics for hTBP and cTBP, order of magnitude differences in rate constants lead to differing populations of intermediates during DNA binding. We find that the NTDs destabilize the three bound forms of DNA for both yTBP and hTBP. For all three proteins, the DNA bend angle (theta) depends on the TATA sequence, with theta for cTBP and hTBP being greater than that for yTBP. For all three proteins, theta for the G6 variant (TATAAGAG) varies with temperature and increases in the presence of osmolyte to be similar to that of AdMLP. Crystallographic studies of cTBP binding to a number of variants had shown no dependence of DNA bending on sequence. The results reported here reveal a clear structural difference for the bound DNA in solution versus the crystal; we attribute the difference to the presence of osmolytes in the crystals.
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- Roberto F Delgadillo
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, USA
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Delgadillo RF, Parkhurst LJ. Spectroscopic Properties of Fluorescein and Rhodamine Dyes Attached to DNA. Photochem Photobiol 2010; 86:261-72. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2009.00663.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Millán-Pacheco C, Capistrán VM, Pastor N. On the consequences of placing amino groups at the TBP-DNA interface. Does TATA really matter? J Mol Recognit 2009; 22:453-64. [DOI: 10.1002/jmr.963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Vologodskii A. Determining protein-induced DNA bending in force-extension experiments: theoretical analysis. Biophys J 2009; 96:3591-9. [PMID: 19413964 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2008] [Revised: 02/10/2009] [Accepted: 02/12/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Computer simulations were used to investigate the possibility of determining protein-induced DNA bend angles by measuring the extension of a single DNA molecule. Analysis of the equilibrium sets of DNA conformations showed that shortening of DNA extension by a single protein-induced DNA bend can be as large as 35 nm. The shortening has a maximum value at the extending force of approximately 0.1 pN. At this force, the DNA extension experiences very large fluctuations that dramatically complicate the measurement. Using Brownian dynamics simulation of a DNA molecule extended by force, we were able to estimate the observation time needed to obtain the desired accuracy of the extension measurement. Also, the simulation revealed large fluctuations of the force, acting on the attached magnetic bead from the stretched DNA molecule.
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Swigon D. The Mathematics of DNA Structure, Mechanics, and Dynamics. MATHEMATICS OF DNA STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND INTERACTIONS 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0670-0_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Whittington JE, Delgadillo RF, Attebury TJ, Parkhurst LK, Daugherty MA, Parkhurst LJ. TATA-Binding Protein Recognition and Bending of a Consensus Promoter Are Protein Species Dependent. Biochemistry 2008; 47:7264-73. [DOI: 10.1021/bi800139w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- JoDell E. Whittington
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753
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Walter NG. Probing RNA structural dynamics and function by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN NUCLEIC ACID CHEMISTRY 2008; Chapter 11:11.10.1-11.10.23. [PMID: 18428904 DOI: 10.1002/0471142700.nc1110s11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Biological function of RNA is often mediated by cyclic switching between several (meta-)stable arrangements of tertiary structure. Fluorophore labeling of RNA offers a unique view into these folding and conformational switching events, since a fluorescence signal is sensitive to its molecular environment and can be continuously monitored in real time to produce kinetic rate information. This unit focuses on the practical implications of using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to probe RNA structural dynamics and function. FRET is a particularly powerful fluorescence technique since, in addition to kinetic data, it provides insights into the structural basis of a conformational rearrangement. Protocols describe how to postsynthetically label RNA for FRET and how to acquire and analyze FRET data. Support protocols describe methods for deprotecting synthetic RNA and for purifying RNA by gel electrophoresis and HPLC. Considerations for selecting appropriate RNA, fluorophores, and labeling strategies are discussed in detail in the commentary.
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Gurunathan K, Levitus M. Applications of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to the study of nucleic acid conformational dynamics. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 82:33-69. [PMID: 18929138 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)00002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Kaushik Gurunathan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
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Breit JF, Ault-Ziel K, Al-Mehdi AB, Gillespie MN. Nuclear protein‐induced bending and flexing of the hypoxic response element of the rat vascular endothelial growth factor promoter. FASEB J 2007; 22:19-29. [PMID: 17766324 DOI: 10.1096/fj.07-8102com] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Bending and flexing of DNA may contribute to transcriptional regulation. Because hypoxia and other physiological signals induce formation of an abasic site at a key base within the hypoxic response element (HRE) of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene (FASEB J. 19, 387-394, 2005) and because abasic sites can introduce flexibility in model DNA sequences, in the present study we used a fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based reporter system to assess topological changes in a wild-type (WT) sequence of the HRE of the rat VEGF gene and in a sequence harboring a single abasic site mimicking the effect of hypoxia. Binding of the hypoxia-inducible transcriptional complex present in hypoxic pulmonary artery endothelial cell nuclear extract to the WT sequence failed to alter sequence topology whereas nuclear protein binding to the modified HRE engendered considerable sequence flexibility. Topological effects of nuclear proteins on the modified VEGF HRE were dependent on the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor-1 and on formation of a single-strand break at the abasic site mediated by the coactivator, Ref-1/Ape1. These observations suggest that oxidative base modifications in the VEGF HRE evoked by physiological signals could be a precursor to single-strand break formation that has an impact on gene expression by modulating sequence flexibility.
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- Jeffrey F Breit
- Department of Pharmacology and Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama 36688-0002, USA
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Liu B, Bazan GC. Tetrahydrofuran Activates Fluorescence Resonant Energy Transfer from a Cationic Conjugated Polyelectrolyte to Fluorescein-Labeled DNA in Aqueous Media. Chem Asian J 2007; 2:499-504. [PMID: 17441187 DOI: 10.1002/asia.200600257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A cationic water-soluble conjugated polyelectrolyte, poly[9,9-bis(6''-(N,N,N-trimethylammonium)hexyl)fluorene-co-alt-2,5-bis(6'-(N,N,N-trimethylammonium)hexyloxyphenylene) tetrabromide], was synthesized. Fluorescence resonant energy transfer (FRET) experiments between the polymer and fluorescein-labeled single-stranded DNA (ssDNA-Fl) were conducted in aqueous buffer and THF/buffer mixtures. Weak fluorescence emission in aqueous buffer was observed upon excitation of the polymer, whereas addition of THF turned on the fluorescence. Fluorescence self-quenching of ssDNA-Fl in the ssDNA-Fl/polymer complexes as well as electron transfer from the polymer to fluorescein may account for the low fluorescence emission in buffer. The improved sensitization of fluorescence by the polymer observed in THF/buffer could be attributed to the weaker binding between the polymer and ssDNA-Fl and a decrease in dielectric constant of the solvent mixture, which disfavors electron transfer. THF-assisted signal sensitization was also observed for the polymer and fluorescein-labeled double-stranded DNA (dsDNA-Fl). These results indicate that the use of cosolvent provides a strategy to improve the detection sensitivity for biosensors based on the optical amplification provided by conjugated polymers.
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- Bin Liu
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117576, Singapore.
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Coban O, Lamb DC, Zaychikov E, Heumann H, Nienhaus GU. Conformational heterogeneity in RNA polymerase observed by single-pair FRET microscopy. Biophys J 2006; 90:4605-17. [PMID: 16581837 PMCID: PMC1471840 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.078840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2005] [Accepted: 03/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Kinetic, structural, and single-molecule transcription measurements suggest that RNA polymerase can adopt many different conformations during elongation. We have measured the geometry of the DNA and RNA in ternary elongation complexes using single-pair fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Six different synthetic transcription elongation complexes were constructed from DNA containing an artificial transcription bubble, an RNA primer, and core RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli. Two different RNA primers were used, an 8-mer and a 5'-extended 11-mer. Fluorescent dye labels were attached at one of three positions on the DNA and at the RNA primer 5'-end. Structurally, the upstream DNA runs perpendicular to the proposed RNA exit channel. Upon nucleoside-triphosphate addition, DNA/RNA hybrid separation occurs readily in the 11-mer complexes but not in the 8-mer complexes. Clear evidence was obtained that RNA polymerase exists in multiple conformations among which it fluctuates.
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- Oana Coban
- Department of Biophysics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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Allemand JF, Cocco S, Douarche N, Lia G. Loops in DNA: an overview of experimental and theoretical approaches. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2006; 19:293-302. [PMID: 16554978 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2005-10073-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2005] [Accepted: 02/02/2006] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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DNA loop formation plays a central role in many cellular processes. The aim of this paper is to present the state of the art and open problems regarding the experimental and theoretical approaches to DNA looping. A particular attention is devoted to the effects of the protein bridge size and of protein induced sharp DNA bending on DNA loop formation enhancement.
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- J-F Allemand
- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS, CNRS, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, France
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Williams SL, Parkhurst LK, Parkhurst LJ. Changes in DNA bending and flexing due to tethered cations detected by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:1028-35. [PMID: 16481311 PMCID: PMC1369283 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Local DNA deformation arises from an interplay among sequence-related base stacking, intrastrand phosphate repulsion, and counterion and water distribution, which is further complicated by the approach and binding of a protein. The role of electrostatics in this complex chemistry was investigated using tethered cationic groups that mimic proximate side chains. A DNA duplex was modified with one or two centrally located deoxyuracils substituted at the 5-position with either a flexible 3-aminopropyl group or a rigid 3-aminopropyn-1-yl group. End-to-end helical distances and duplex flexibility were obtained from measurements of the time-resolved Förster resonance energy transfer between 5′- and 3′-linked dye pairs. A novel analysis utilized the first and second moments of the G(t) function, which encompasses only the energy transfer process. Duplex flexibility is altered by the presence of even a single positive charge. In contrast, the mean 5′–3′ distance is significantly altered by the introduction of two adjacently tethered cations into the double helix but not by a single cation: two adjacent aminopropyl groups decrease the 5′–3′ distance while neighboring aminopropynyl groups lengthen the helix.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 402 472 3501; Fax: +1 402 472 9402;
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Hiller DA, Rodriguez AM, Perona JJ. Non-cognate Enzyme–DNA Complex: Structural and Kinetic Analysis of EcoRV Endonuclease Bound to the EcoRI Recognition Site GAATTC. J Mol Biol 2005; 354:121-36. [PMID: 16236314 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.09.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2005] [Revised: 09/14/2005] [Accepted: 09/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The crystal structure of EcoRV endonuclease bound to non-cognate DNA at 2.0 angstroms resolution shows that very small structural adaptations are sufficient to ensure the extreme sequence specificity characteristic of restriction enzymes. EcoRV bends its specific GATATC site sharply by 50 degrees into the major groove at the center TA step, generating unusual base-base interactions along each individual DNA strand. In the symmetric non-cognate complex bound to GAATTC, the center step bend is relaxed to avoid steric hindrance caused by the different placement of the exocyclic thymine methyl groups. The decreased base-pair unstacking in turn leads to small conformational rearrangements in the sugar-phosphate backbone, sufficient to destabilize binding of crucial divalent metal ions in the active site. A second crystal structure of EcoRV bound to the base-analog GAAUTC site shows that the 50 degrees center-step bend of the DNA is restored. However, while divalent metals bind at high occupancy in this structure, one metal ion shifts away from binding at the scissile DNA phosphate to a position near the 3'-adjacent phosphate group. This may explain why the 10(4)-fold attenuated cleavage efficiency toward GAATTC is reconstituted by less than tenfold toward GAAUTC. Examination of DNA binding and bending by equilibrium and stopped-flow florescence quenching and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) methods demonstrates that the capacity of EcoRV to bend the GAATTC non-cognate site is severely limited, but that full bending of GAAUTC is achieved at only a threefold reduced rate compared with the cognate complex. Together, the structural and biochemical data demonstrate the existence of distinct mechanisms for ensuring specificity at the bending and catalytic steps, respectively. The limited conformational rearrangements observed in the EcoRV non-cognate complex provide a sharp contrast to the extensive structural changes found in a non-cognate BamHI-DNA crystal structure, thus demonstrating a diversity of mechanisms by which restriction enzymes are able to achieve specificity.
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- David A Hiller
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510, USA
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Du Q, Vologodskaia M, Kuhn H, Frank-Kamenetskii M, Vologodskii A. Gapped DNA and cyclization of short DNA fragments. Biophys J 2005; 88:4137-45. [PMID: 15778443 PMCID: PMC1305644 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.055657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We use the cyclization of small DNA molecules, approximately 200 bp in length, to study conformational properties of DNA fragments with single-stranded gaps. The approach is extremely sensitive to DNA conformational properties and, being complemented by computations, allows a very accurate determination of the fragment's conformational parameters. Sequence-specific nicking endonucleases are used to create the 4-nt-long gap. We determined the bending rigidity of the single-stranded region in the gapped DNA. We found that the gap of 4 nt in length makes all torsional orientations of DNA ends equally probable. Our results also show that the gap has isotropic bending rigidity. This makes it very attractive to use gapped DNA in the cyclization experiments to determine DNA conformational properties, since the gap eliminates oscillations of the cyclization efficiency with the DNA length. As a result, the number of measurements is greatly reduced in the approach, and the analysis of the data is greatly simplified. We have verified our approach on DNA fragments containing well-characterized intrinsic bends caused by A-tracts. The obtained experimental results and theoretical analysis demonstrate that gapped-DNA cyclization is an exceedingly sensitive and accurate approach for the determination of DNA bending.
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- Quan Du
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, 10003, USA
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Xu QH, Wang S, Korystov D, Mikhailovsky A, Bazan GC, Moses D, Heeger AJ. The fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) gate: a time-resolved study. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:530-5. [PMID: 15642946 PMCID: PMC545565 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408568102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The two-step energy-transfer process in a self-assembled complex comprising a cationic conjugated polymer (CCP) and a dsDNA is investigated by using pump-dump-emission spectroscopy and time-correlated single-photon counting; energy is transferred from the CCP to an ethidium bromide (EB) molecule intercalated into the dsDNA through a fluorescein molecule linked to one terminus of the DNA. Time-dependent anisotropy measurements indicate that the inefficient direct energy transfer from the CCP to the intercalated EB results from the near orthogonality of their transition moments. These measurements also show that the transition moment of the fluorescein spans a range of angular distributions and lies between that of the CCP and EB. Consequently, the fluorescein acts as a fluorescence resonance energy-transfer gate to relay the excitation energy from the CCP to the EB.
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- Qing-Hua Xu
- Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Sale K, Faulon JL, Gray GA, Schoeniger JS, Young MM. Optimal bundling of transmembrane helices using sparse distance constraints. Protein Sci 2004; 13:2613-27. [PMID: 15340162 PMCID: PMC2286557 DOI: 10.1110/ps.04781504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2004] [Revised: 06/23/2004] [Accepted: 06/23/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We present a two-step approach to modeling the transmembrane spanning helical bundles of integral membrane proteins using only sparse distance constraints, such as those derived from chemical cross-linking, dipolar EPR and FRET experiments. In Step 1, using an algorithm, we developed, the conformational space of membrane protein folds matching a set of distance constraints is explored to provide initial structures for local conformational searches. In Step 2, these structures refined against a custom penalty function that incorporates both measures derived from statistical analysis of solved membrane protein structures and distance constraints obtained from experiments. We begin by describing the statistical analysis of the solved membrane protein structures from which the theoretical portion of the penalty function was derived. We then describe the penalty function, and, using a set of six test cases, demonstrate that it is capable of distinguishing helical bundles that are close to the native bundle from those that are far from the native bundle. Finally, using a set of only 27 distance constraints extracted from the literature, we show that our method successfully recovers the structure of dark-adapted rhodopsin to within 3.2 A of the crystal structure.
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- Ken Sale
- Biosystems Research Department, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 969, MS 9951, Livermore CA 94551-0969, USA.
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Khrapunov S, Brenowitz M. Comparison of the effect of water release on the interaction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae TATA binding protein (TBP) with "TATA Box" sequences composed of adenosine or inosine. Biophys J 2004; 86:371-83. [PMID: 14695279 PMCID: PMC1303802 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(04)74113-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The formation of sequence-specific complexes of TATA binding protein (TBP) with the minor groove of DNA results in the burial of large nonpolar surfaces and the exclusion of water from these interfaces. The release of water is thus expected to provide a significant entropic driving force for formation of the transcription-preinitiated complexes mediated by the binding of TBP to specific sequences. In this article are described equilibrium-binding studies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae TBP to 14 bp oligonucleotides bearing either the tightly bound and efficiently transcribed adenovirus major late promoter (TATAAAAG) or its inosine-substituted derivative (TITIIIIG) as a function of neutral osmolyte concentration. These two DNA sequences present the same pattern of minor groove hydrogen-bond donors and acceptors to the protein. TBP-DNA complex formation was monitored by steady-state fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements of the oligonucleotides end-labeled with fluorescein (donor) and TAMRA (acceptor). Correct interpretation of the results obtained with the inosine-substituted sequence required careful consideration of the optical properties of the dyes as a function of osmolyte concentration to demonstrate that the relative change in the end-to-end distances for TATAAAAG- and TITIIIIG-bearing oligonucleotides is the same upon TBP binding. Although the affinity of TBP is slightly greater for the adenosine compared with the inosine-substituted TATA sequence in the absence of osmolyte, the end-to-end distances of the bound DNA in complex with TBP, the enthalpic and electrostatic components of binding, are identical within experimental precision. However, approximately 18 additional molecules of water are released upon TBP binding the TATAAAAG as compared with the TITIIIIG sequence resulting in an entropic advantage to the binding of the natural promoter sequence. These results are considered with regard to differences in the flexibility and hydration of the two DNA sequences.
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- Sergei Khrapunov
- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
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Xu QH, Gaylord BS, Wang S, Bazan GC, Moses D, Heeger AJ. Time-resolved energy transfer in DNA sequence detection using water-soluble conjugated polymers: the role of electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:11634-9. [PMID: 15282375 PMCID: PMC511031 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0404574101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We have investigated the energy transfer processes in DNA sequence detection by using cationic conjugated polymers and peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probes with ultrafast pump-dump-emission spectroscopy. Pump-dump-emission spectroscopy provides femtosecond temporal resolution and high sensitivity and avoids interference from the solvent response. The energy transfer from donor (the conjugated polymer) to acceptor (a fluorescent molecule attached to a PNA terminus) has been time resolved. The results indicate that both electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions contribute to the formation of cationic conjugated polymers/PNA-C/DNA complexes. The two interactions result in two different binding conformations. This picture is supported by the average donor-acceptor separations as estimated from time-resolved and steady-state measurements. Electrostatic interactions dominate at low concentrations and in mixed solvents.
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- Qing-Hua Xu
- Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Wang S, Gaylord BS, Bazan GC. Fluorescein Provides a Resonance Gate for FRET from Conjugated Polymers to DNA Intercalated Dyes. J Am Chem Soc 2004; 126:5446-51. [PMID: 15113216 DOI: 10.1021/ja035550m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Fluorescence spectra show that excitation of the cationic water-soluble conjugated polymer poly[(1,4-phenylene)-2,7-[9,9-bis(6'-N,N,N-trimethylammonium)-hexyl]fluorene diiodide] (1) results in inefficient fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to ethidium bromide (EB) intercalated within double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). When fluorescein (Fl) is attached to one terminus of the dsDNA, there is efficient FRET from 1 through Fl to EB. The cascading energy-transfer process was examined mechanistically via fluorescence decay kinetics and fluorescence anisotropy measurements. These experiments show that the proximity and conformational freedom of Fl provide a FRET gate to dyes intercalated within DNA which are optically amplified by the properties of the conjugated polymer. The overall process provides a substantial improvement over previous homogeneous conjugated polymer based DNA sensors, namely, in the form of improved selectivity.
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- Shu Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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Parkhurst LJ. Distance Parameters Derived from Time-Resolved Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Measurements and Their Use in Structural Interpretations of Thermodynamic Quantities Associated with Protein–DNA Interactions. Methods Enzymol 2004; 379:235-62. [PMID: 15051361 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(04)79013-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Masters KM, Parkhurst KM, Daugherty MA, Parkhurst LJ. Native human TATA-binding protein simultaneously binds and bends promoter DNA without a slow isomerization step or TFIIB requirement. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:31685-90. [PMID: 12791683 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m305201200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The association of TATA-binding protein (TBP) with promoter DNA is central to the initiation and regulation of eukaryotic protein synthesis. Our laboratory has previously conducted detailed investigations of this interaction using yeast TBP and seven consensus and variant TATA sequences. We have now investigated this key interaction using human TBP and the TATA sequence from the adenovirus major late promoter (AdMLP). Recombinant native human protein was used together with fluorescently labeled DNA, allowing real time data acquisition in solution. We find that the wild-type hTBP-DNAAdMLP reaction is characterized by high affinity (Kd < or = 5 nm), simultaneous binding and DNA bending, and rapid formation of a stable human TBP-DNA complex having DNA bent approximately 100 degrees. These data allow, for the first time, a direct comparison of the reactions of the full-length, native human and yeast TBPs with a consensus promoter, studied under identical conditions. The general reaction characteristics are similar for the human and yeast proteins, although the details differ and the hTBPwt-induced bend is more severe. This directly measured hTBPwt-DNAAdMLP interaction differs fundamentally from a recently published hTBPwt-DNAAdMLP model characterized by low affinity (microM) binding and an unstable complex requiring either a 30-min isomerization or TFIIB to achieve DNA bending. Possible sources of these significant differences are discussed.
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- Kristina M Masters
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304, USA
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The power of FRET to study molecular complexes is expanded by the use of two or more donor/acceptor pairs. A general theoretical framework for distance measurements in three-chromophore systems is presented. Three energy transfer schemes applicable to many diverse situations are considered: (I) two-step FRET relay with FRET between the first and second chromophores and between the second and third, (II) FRET from a single donor to two different acceptors, and (III) two-step FRET relay with FRET also between the first and third chromophores. Equations for the efficiencies involving multiple energy transfer steps are derived for both donor quenching and sensitized emission measurements. The theory is supported by experimental data on model systems of known structure using steady-state donor quenching, lifetime quenching, and sensitized emission. The distances measured in the three-chromophore systems agree with those in two-chromophore systems and molecular models. Finally, labeling requirements for diagnosis of the energy transfer scheme and subsequent distance measurements are discussed.
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- Heather M Watrob
- Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7078, USA
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Hardwidge PR, Parkhurst KM, Parkhurst LJ, Maher LJ. Reflections on apparent DNA bending by charge variants of bZIP proteins. Biopolymers 2003; 69:110-7. [PMID: 12717726 DOI: 10.1002/bip.10321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) proteins have been studied intensely as transcription factors. It has been proposed that the bZIP domain might modulate transcription activation through the induction of conformational changes in the DNA binding site. We have been interested in using bZIP peptides as convenient models with which to study the role of asymmetric phosphate neutralization in DNA bending. DNA bending experiments have yielded discordant results for bZIP peptides studied by electrophoretic- vs solution-based assays. We review the history of DNA bending assays involving bZIP peptides and introduce the reader to examples of discordant results. Our recent published experiments designed to clarify this field of study will then be reviewed. The engineering of protein fusions has established that electrophoretic phasing assays are relatively insensitive to precise protein structure/conformation and instead appear to report DNA bending, as influenced by protein charge. New applications of time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) have allowed for the first time corroboration of electrophoretic phasing assays with solution-based FRET measurements. We report that two conventional DNA bending assays that rely on DNA ligation cannot be applied to analysis of the bZIP peptides we studied due to ligation inhibition.
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- Philip R Hardwidge
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Edelman LM, Cheong R, Kahn JD. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer over approximately 130 basepairs in hyperstable lac repressor-DNA loops. Biophys J 2003; 84:1131-45. [PMID: 12547794 PMCID: PMC1302690 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74929-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Lac repressor (LacI) binds two operator DNA sites, looping the intervening DNA. DNA molecules containing two lac operators bracketing a sequence-directed bend were previously shown to form hyperstable LacI-looped complexes. Biochemical studies suggested that orienting the operators outward relative to the bend direction (in construct 9C14) stabilizes a positively supercoiled closed form, with a V-shaped LacI, but that the most stable loop construct (11C12) is a more open form. Here, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is measured on DNA loops, between fluorescein and TAMRA attached near the two operators, approximately 130 basepairs apart. For 9C14, efficient LacI-induced energy transfer ( approximately 74% based on donor quenching) confirms that the designed DNA shape can force the looped complex into a closed form. From enhanced acceptor emission, correcting for observed donor-dependent quenching of acceptor fluorescence, approximately 52% transfer was observed. Time-resolved FRET suggests that this complex exists in both closed- and open form populations. Less efficient transfer, approximately 10%, was detected for DNA-LacI sandwiches and 11C12-LacI, consistent with an open form loop. This demonstration of long-range FRET in large DNA loops confirms that appropriate DNA design can control loop geometry. LacI flexibility may allow it to maintain looping with other proteins bound or under different intracellular conditions.
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- Laurence M Edelman
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742-2021, USA
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