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Freeland J, Zhang L, Wang ST, Ruiz M, Wang Y. Bent DNA Bows as Sensing Amplifiers for Detecting DNA-Interacting Salts and Molecules. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 20:E3112. [PMID: 32486417 PMCID: PMC7309149 DOI: 10.3390/s20113112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Revised: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Due to the central role of DNA, its interactions with inorganic salts and small organic molecules are important. For example, such interactions play important roles in various fundamental cellular processes in living systems and are involved in many DNA-damage related diseases. Strategies to improve the sensitivity of existing techniques for studying DNA interactions with other molecules would be appreciated in situations where the interactions are too weak. Here we report our development and demonstration of bent DNA bows for amplifying, sensing, and detecting the interactions of 14 inorganic salts and small organic molecules with DNA. With the bent DNA bows, these interactions were easily visualized and quantified in gel electrophoresis, which were difficult to measure without bending. In addition, the strength of the interactions of DNA with the various salts/molecules were quantified using the modified Hill equation. This work highlights the amplification effects of the bending elastic energy stored in the DNA bows and the potential use of the DNA bows for quantitatively measuring DNA interactions with small molecules as simple economic methods; it may also pave the way for exploiting the bent DNA bows for other applications such as screening DNA-interacting molecules and drugs.
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- Jack Freeland
- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA; (J.F.); (M.R.)
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA; (L.Z.); (S.-T.W.)
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA; (L.Z.); (S.-T.W.)
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA; (J.F.); (M.R.)
- Department of Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA; (J.F.); (M.R.)
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
- Microelectronics-Photonics Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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Lou X, Egli M, Yang X. Determining Functional Aptamer-Protein Interaction by Biolayer Interferometry. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 67:7.25.1-7.25.15. [PMID: 27911494 DOI: 10.1002/cpnc.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Short single-stranded nucleic acids called aptamers are widely being explored as recognition molecules of high affinity and specificity for binding a wide range of target molecules, particularly protein targets. In biolayer interferometry (BLI), a simple Dip-and-Read approach in which the aptamer-coated biosensors are dipped into microplate wells is used to study the interactions between an aptamer and its target protein. Here we describe the protocol for the analysis of the interaction between a well-characterized anti-thrombin RNA aptamer with thrombin (Basic Protocol). We also report on the protocol for the affinity screening of a panel of anti-thrombin RNA aptamers with a single phosphorodithioate (PS2) modification, whereby the position of the modification along the RNA backbone is varied systematically (Support Protocol). The PS2 modification uses two sulfur atoms to replace two non-bridging oxygen atoms at an internucleotide phosphodiester backbone linkage. The PS2-modified RNAs are nuclease resistant and several in vitro and in vivo assays have demonstrated their biological activity. For example, combining the PS2 with the 2'-OMe modification affords increased loading of modified small interfering RNA (siRNA) duplexes into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) as well as enhanced gene-silencing antitumor activity. © 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Xinhui Lou
- Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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Boyd ME, Heimer BW, Sikes HD. Functional heterologous expression and purification of a mammalian methyl-CpG binding domain in suitable yield for DNA methylation profiling assays. Protein Expr Purif 2012; 82:332-8. [PMID: 22326799 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2012.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2011] [Revised: 01/21/2012] [Accepted: 01/24/2012] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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DNA methylation is a major epigenetic modification in mammalian cells, and patterns involving methylation of cytosine bases, known as CpG methylation, have been implicated in the development of many types of cancer. Methyl binding domains (MBDs) excised from larger mammalian methyl-CpG-binding proteins specifically recognize methyl-cytosine bases of CpG dinucleotides in duplex DNA. Previous molecular diagnostic studies involving MBDs have employed Escherichia coli for protein expression with either low soluble yields or the use of time-consuming denaturation-renaturation purification procedures to improve yields. Efficient MBD-based diagnostics require expression and purification methods that maximize protein yield and minimize time and resource expenditure. This study is a systematic optimization analysis of MBD expression using both SDS-PAGE and microscopy and it provides a comparison of protein yield from published procedures to that from the conditions found to be optimal in these experiments. Protein binding activity and specificity were verified using a DNA electrophoretic mobility shift assay, and final protein yield was improved from the starting conditions by a factor of 65 with a simple, single-step purification.
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- Mary E Boyd
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
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Petyuk VA, Serikov RN, Vlassov VV, Zenkova MA. Hybridization of antisense oligonucleotides with alpha-sarcin loop region of Escherichia coli 23S rRNA. NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2005; 23:895-906. [PMID: 15560079 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-200026038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Binding of complementary oligonucleotides (ONs) with alpha-sarcin loop region (2638-2682) of Escherichia coli 23S rRNA was investigated. Four of the tested pentadecanucleotides efficiently bound to target sequences with association rate and equilibrium constants approximately 10(3) M(-1)s(-1) and 10(7) M(-1), respectively. ON S5 (CGAGAGGACCGGAGU) complementary to the sequence 2658-2672 displayed the highest affinity to the target. Activation energy for binding of ON S5 was measured to be 11 kcal/mol; this value corresponds to approximately 10% of the calculated enthalpy of the local RNA structure unfolding in the presence of this oligonucleotide. The activation energy value is evidence for the heteroduplex formation to occur via strand displacement pathway; the initiation of heteroduplex formation requires disruption of 1-2 base pairs in RNA hairpin.
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- Vladislav A Petyuk
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Kuznetsova IL, Zenkova MA, Gross HJ, Vlassov VV. Enhanced RNA cleavage within bulge-loops by an artificial ribonuclease. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:1201-12. [PMID: 15731340 PMCID: PMC549568 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Cleavage of phosphodiester bonds by small ribonuclease mimics within different bulge-loops of RNA was investigated. Bulge-loops of different size (1–7 nt) and sequence composition were formed in a 3′ terminal fragment of influenza virus M2 RNA (96 nt) by hybridization of complementary oligodeoxynucleotides. Small bulges (up to 4 nt) were readily formed upon oligonucleotide hybridization, whereas hybridization of the RNA to the oligonucleotides designed to produce larger bulges resulted in formation of several alternative structures. A synthetic ribonuclease mimic displaying Pyr–Pu cleavage specificity cleaved CpA motifs located within bulges faster than similar motifs within the rest of the RNA. In the presence of 10 mM MgCl2, 75% of the cleavage products resulted from the attack of this motif. Thus, selective RNA cleavage at a single target phosphodiester bond was achieved by using bulge forming oligonucleotides and a small ribonuclease A mimic.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +7 3832 333761; Fax: +7 3832 333761;
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- Institute of Biochemistry, BiocenterAm Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Fraga MF, Ballestar E, Esteller M. Capillary electrophoresis-based method to quantitate DNA-protein interactions. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2003; 789:431-5. [PMID: 12742135 DOI: 10.1016/s1570-0232(03)00103-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A novel, rapid and simple capillary electrophoretic mobility shift assay (CEMSA) with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) has been developed for the quantitative study of protein-DNA interactions. This method is particularly useful for the study of basic proteins, the most common of the DNA-interacting proteins. To avoid protein stickiness to the capillary walls we have introduced the use of neutral polyacrylamide that requires the use of reverse polarity. Under these conditions, excellent separation of DNA and protein-DNA complexes was obtained without the requirement of a gel matrix, thereby allowing the easy and reliable quantification of protein-DNA affinities. Analysis of the affinities of histones H2B and H4 for a synthetic oligo have been used to demonstrate the reproducibility and accuracy of this method. We have observed that H4 has a higher affinity for DNA than H2B, with half saturation fractions lying in the micromolar range.
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- Mario F Fraga
- Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, Program of Molecular Pathology, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), C/Melchor Fernández Almagro no. 3, E-28029, Madrid, Spain
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Schild-Poulter C, Matheos D, Novac O, Cui B, Giffin W, Ruiz MT, Price GB, Zannis-Hadjopoulos M, Haché RJG. Differential DNA binding of Ku antigen determines its involvement in DNA replication. DNA Cell Biol 2003; 22:65-78. [PMID: 12713733 DOI: 10.1089/104454903321515887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Ku antigen (Ku70/Ku80) is a regulatory subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase, which participates in the regulation of DNA replication and gene transcription through specific DNA sequences. In this study, we have compared the mechanism of action of Ku from A3/4, a DNA sequence that appears in mammalian origins of DNA replication, and NRE1, a transcriptional regulatory element in the long terminal repeat of mouse mammary tumor virus through which Ku antigen and its associated kinase, DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK(cs)), act to repress steroid-induced transcription. Our results indicate that replication from a minimal replication origin of ors8 is independent of DNA-PK(cs) and that Ku interacts with A3/4-like sequences and NRE1 in fundamentally different ways. UV crosslinking experiments revealed differential interactions of the Ku subunits with A3/4, NRE1, and two other proposed Ku transcriptional regulatory elements. In vitro footprinting experiments showed direct contact of Ku on A3/4 and over the region of ors8 homologous to A3/4. In vitro replication assays using ors8 templates bearing mutations in the A3/4-like sequence suggested that Ku binding to this element was necessary for replication. By contrast, in vitro replication experiments revealed that NRE1 was not involved in DNA replication. Our results establish A3/4 as a new class of Ku DNA binding site. Classification of Ku DNA binding into eight categories of interaction based on recognition and DNA crosslinking experiments is discussed.
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- Caroline Schild-Poulter
- Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Hoyt PR, Doktycz MJ, Warmack RJ, Allison DP. Spin-column isolation of DNA-protein interactions from complex protein mixtures for AFM imaging. Ultramicroscopy 2001; 86:139-43. [PMID: 11215616 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3991(00)00074-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Applications of atomic force microscopy (AFM) to investigate structural-functional interactions between DNA and proteins, at the molecular level, should prove valuable for gaining a better understanding of gene expression. Specific genomic DNA-protein interactions occur within a sea of intracellular proteins. Successful AFM imaging requires isolating the specific DNA-protein complex free of background protein contamination. Using spin-column chromatography, we report the successful isolation and AFM imaging of transcription factor DNA complexes from DNA molecules incubated with crude cell lysates. This method should be applicable for the isolation and imaging of other specific DNA-protein complexes pertinent to functional genomic research.
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- P R Hoyt
- Life Sciences Division, The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN 37830, USA
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Serwer P, Griess GA. Advances in the separation of bacteriophages and related particles. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 1999; 722:179-90. [PMID: 10068140 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(98)00404-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nondenaturing gel electrophoresis is used to both characterize multimolecular particles and determine the assembly pathways of these particles. Characterization of bacteriophage-related particles has yielded strategies for characterizing multimolecular particles in general. Previous studies have revealed means for using nondenaturing gel electrophoresis to determine both the effective radius and the average electrical surface charge density of any particle. The response of electrophoretic mobility to increasing the magnitude of the electrical field is used to detect rod-shaped particles. To increase the capacity of nondenaturing gel electrophoresis to characterize comparatively large particles, some current research is directed towards either determining the structure of gels used for electrophoresis or inducing steric trapping of particles in dead-end regions within the fibrous network that forms a gel. A trapping-dependent technique of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis is presented with which a DNA-protein complex can be made to electrophoretically migrate in a direction opposite to the direction of migration of protein-free DNA.
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- P Serwer
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284-7760, USA.
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Sommer A, Bousset K, Kremmer E, Austen M, Lüscher B. Identification and characterization of specific DNA-binding complexes containing members of the Myc/Max/Mad network of transcriptional regulators. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:6632-42. [PMID: 9506959 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.12.6632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In the past, eukaryotic cell-derived complexes of the Myc/Max/Mad network of transcriptional regulators have largely been refractory to DNA binding studies. We have developed electrophoretic mobility shift assay conditions to measure specific DNA binding of Myc/Max/Mad network complexes using a COS7 cell-based overexpression system. With the established protocol, we have measured on- and off-rates of c-Myc/Max, Max/Max, and Mad1/Max complexes and determined relative affinities. All three complexes appeared to bind with comparable affinity to a Myc E-box sequence. Furthermore, our data derived from competition experiments suggested that the Mad3/Max and Mad4/Max complexes also possess comparable DNA binding affinities. The conditions established for COS7 cell-overexpressed proteins were then used to identify c-Myc/Max, Max/Max, and Mnt/Max complexes in HL-60 cells. However, no Mad1/Max could be detected, despite the induction of Mad1 expression during differentiation. Whereas the DNA binding activity of c-Myc/Max complexes was down-regulated, Max/Max binding increased, and Mnt/Max binding remained unchanged. In addition, we have also tested for upstream stimulatory factor (USF) binding and observed that, in agreement with published data, USF comprises a major Myc E-box-binding factor that is more abundant than any of the Myc/Max/Mad network complexes. Similar to the Mnt/Max complex, the binding activity of USF remained constant during HL-60 differentiation. Our findings establish conditions for the analysis of DNA binding of Myc/Max/Mad complexes and indicate posttranslational regulation of the Max/Max complex.
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- A Sommer
- Institut für Molekularbiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, 30623 Hannover, Germany
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Ershov AV, Lukiw WJ, Bazan NG. Selective transcription factor induction in retinal pigment epithelial cells during photoreceptor phagocytosis. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:28458-62. [PMID: 8910472 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.45.28458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Expression of early response genes during rod outer segment phagocytosis by normal Long Evans and Royal College of Surgeons-rdy+p+ rats and by dystrophic Royal College of Surgeons-p+ rat retinal pigment epithelial cells was studied in primary cell culture. Northern analysis revealed that the abundance of zif-268 (egr-1), c-fos, and tis-1 (NGF1-B) mRNA was rapidly and transiently increased in normal retinal pigment epithelial cells during rod outer segment phagocytosis but not during phagocytosis of latex particles. No increase in gene expression was found in Royal College of Surgeons-p+ dystrophic retinal pigment epithelial cells challenged with rod outer segments. As shown by electrophoretic mobility shift assay, a prominent short term increase in the intensity of the gel-shifted band was detected using nuclear protein extracts derived from rod outer segment-challenged, control retinal pigment epithelial cells and zif-268, AP-1, AP-2, or tis-1 consensus oligonucleotides. No such increase was detected when using nuclear factor kappaB consensus oligonucleotide or when the early response gene prostaglandin H synthase-2 mRNA was measured over the time course studied. The results suggest that in retinal pigment epithelial cells, rod outer segment-specific phagocytosis is accompanied by the selective expression of early response genes coding for transcription factors. The specific pattern of the induction of these transcription factors is predicted to modulate the expression of gene cascades.
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- A V Ershov
- Neuroscience Center and Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA.
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Jett SD, Bear DG. Snapshot blotting: transfer of nucleic acids and nucleoprotein complexes from electrophoresis gels to grids for electron microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:6870-4. [PMID: 8041711 PMCID: PMC44299 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.15.6870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We present a technique, "snapshot blotting," for the electrophoretic transfer of nucleic acids and nucleoprotein complexes in gel electrophoresis bands onto highly stable carbon film-coated grids for imaging by electron microscopy. The method permits structural analysis of macromolecular species that have been resolved by a gel mobility-shift assay. To demonstrate the efficiency and integrity of the transfer process for a multiprotein-DNA assembly, we have imaged various species of a prokaryotic transcription complex, using the cleavage-defective EcoRI(Q111) protein as an orientation marker and as a blockade of transcription elongation. Snapshot blotting should be of great utility in the structural characterization of nucleic acids and protein-nucleic acid interactions.
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- S D Jett
- Department of Cell Biology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque 87131
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Lukiw WJ, Rogaev EI, Wong L, Vaula G, McLachlan DR, St George Hyslop P. Protein-DNA interactions in the promoter region of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene in human neocortex. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1994; 22:121-31. [PMID: 8015372 DOI: 10.1016/0169-328x(94)90039-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have investigated protein-DNA interactions in the proximal promoter of the human amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene in temporal lobe neocortical nuclei isolated from control and Alzheimer disease (AD) affected brains. We report that the human APP 5' promoter sequence from -203 to +55 bp, which has been previously reported to contain essential regulatory elements for APP gene transcription, lies in a deoxyribonuclease I, micrococcal nuclease- and restriction endonuclease-sensitive, G+C-rich nucleosome-free gap flanked both 5' and 3' by typical nucleosome structures. As analyzed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay, this extended internucleosomal linker DNA is heavily occupied by nuclear protein factors, and interacts differentially with nuclear protein extracts obtained from HeLa and human brain neocortical nuclei. This suggests that the chromatin conformation of the APP gene promoter may vary in different cell types, and may correlate with differences in APP gene expression. Human recombinant transcription factors AP1, SP1 and TFIID (but not AP2 or brain histones H1, H2B and H4) interact with the -203 to +55 bp of the human APP promoter sequence. Only minor differences were observed in the chromatin structure of the immediate APP promoter between non-AD and AD affected neocortical nuclei, suggesting either that post-transcriptional processes, or that regulatory elements lying elsewhere in the APP gene may be important in the aberrant accumulation of the APP gene product.
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- W J Lukiw
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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Gerstle JT, Fried MG. Measurement of binding kinetics using the gel electrophoresis mobility shift assay. Electrophoresis 1993; 14:725-31. [PMID: 8404816 DOI: 10.1002/elps.11501401115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The gel electrophoresis mobility shift assay is a technique for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of protein-DNA complexes. The ability to resolve reactants, reaction intermediates and products makes this method particularly well-suited for the measurement of the assembly and dissociation rates of protein-nucleic acid complexes. Here we identify conditions that must be met and variations of the technique that are useful for the measurement of reaction rates.
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- J T Gerstle
- Department of Surgery, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033
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Niederweis M, Hillen W. Electrophoretic analysis of protein-induced DNA bending and twist changes. Electrophoresis 1993; 14:693-8. [PMID: 8404811 DOI: 10.1002/elps.11501401110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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DNA fragments with a varied phasing of two intrinsic bends at their ends and a tet operator in-between were constructed to determine Tet repressor-induced twist changes in the operator DNA. These distance variants show a sinusoidal dependence of their electrophoretic mobilities on the phasing of their bends in polyacrylamide gels. Complex formation with Tet repressor leads to a displacement of the first minimum, indicating an unwinding of the tet operator DNA. Model calculations were performed to assess the contribution of Tet repressor-induced DNA bending to this result. They revealed that the amplitude of the electrophoretic mobilities of the distance variants may be used as a parameter to separate the effects of Tet repressor-induced twist change and bending. The systematic analysis presented here may help to improve the quantitative interpretation of gel shifts and promote the use of this highly sensitive method to gain structural information about protein-DNA complexes.
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- M Niederweis
- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Biochemie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Blier P, Griffith A, Craft J, Hardin J. Binding of Ku protein to DNA. Measurement of affinity for ends and demonstration of binding to nicks. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53216-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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The control of gene transcription requires specific protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions. c-Myc, the protein product of the c-myc protooncogene, is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix leucine-zipper class of transcription factors. Although c-Myc is able to bind to a specific core hexanucleotide DNA sequence (CACGTG), its precise function in modulating transcription remains unclear. The recent discovery of Max, a basic helix-loop-helix leucine-zipper partner protein for c-Myc, suggests that the ability of c-Myc to regulate transcription is modulated by the presence of Max. By taking advantage of the altered mobility of protein-bound DNA in the mobility-shift assay, we demonstrate the homo- and heterodimeric complexes of c-Myc and Max are able to cause increased DNA flexure as measured by the circular permutation assay. Based on phasing analysis, c-Myc and Max homodimers bend DNA in opposite orientations, whereas c-Myc-Max heterodimers cause a smaller bend, in an orientation similar to that induced by Max homodimers. To address the possibility that the apparent opposite orientation of bending was the result of DNA unwinding by one of the proteins, we measured the ability of c-Myc and Max homodimers to affect DNA unwinding; we were unable to show any specific unwinding caused by c-Myc or Max. In addition to demonstrating that members of the basic helix-loop-helix leucine-zipper class of transcription factors are able to induce DNA bending, these results suggest that different transcription factor dimers are able to bind to identical DNA sequences and yet have distinct structural effects.
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- D S Wechsler
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205-2196
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Mello CM, Marx KA. The affinity of DNA-microtubule protein complexes and their disruption by tubulin binding drugs. J Biomol Struct Dyn 1992; 9:791-805. [PMID: 1616631 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1992.10507956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Using the gel shift assay system, we have measured the apparent affinity constant for the interaction of two different DNAs with MAP proteins found in both total calf brain microtubules and heat stable brain preparations. Both DNAs studied contained centromere/kinetochore sequences- one was enriched in the calf satellite DNA; the other was a large restriction fragment containing the yeast CEN11 DNA sequence. Complexes formed using both DNAs had similar Kapp values in the range of 2.1 x 10(7) M-1 to 2.0 x 10(8) M-1. CEN11 DNA-MTP complexes had by far the highest Kapp value of 2.0 x 10(8) M-1. The CEN11 DNA sequence is where the yeast kinetochore of chromosome 11 is formed and where the single yeast microtubule is bound in vivo. The CEN11 conserved region II known binding sites-(dA/dT)n runs- for mammalian MAP2 protein, are in good agreement with this higher Kapp value. The effects of the classical tubulin binding drugs colchicine, podophyllotoxin and vinblastine on the DNA-MAP protein complex stability were investigated by determining the drug concentrations where the complexes were destabilized. Only the complexes formed from total microtubule protein (tubulin containing) were destabilized over a wide drug concentration range. Heat stable brain protein complexes (no tubulin) were largely unaffected. Furthermore, it took 10-100 fold higher drug concentrations to disrupt the CEN11 DNA complexes compared to the calf thymus satellite DNA enriched complexes. These data support our previous results suggesting that there is a DNA sequence dependent interaction with MAP proteins that appears to be conserved in evolution (Marx et. al., Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 783, 383-392, 1984; Marx and Denial, Molecular Basis of Cancer 172B, 65-75 1985). In addition, these results imply that the classical tubulin binding drugs may exert their biological effects in cells at least in part by disrupting DNA-Protein complexes of the type we have studied here.
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- C M Mello
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Lowell 01854
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Holmes DL, Stellwagen NC. Estimation of polyacrylamide gel pore size from Ferguson plots of linear DNA fragments. II. Comparison of gels with different crosslinker concentrations, added agarose and added linear polyacrylamide. Electrophoresis 1991; 12:612-9. [PMID: 1752240 DOI: 10.1002/elps.1150120903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The mobilities of various DNA fragments in two normally migrating molecular weight ladders were studied in polyacrylamide gels containing different concentrations of the crosslinker N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide (Bis). The acrylamide concentration ranged from 2.5-10.5%T (w/v); the Bis concentration ranged from 0.5-10%C (w/w), with respect to total acrylamide. Ferguson plots were constructed for each of the DNA fragments in gels of each composition. The Ferguson plots of the different multimers in each molecular weight ladder were nearly parallel in gels containing 0.5-3%C, converged close to a common intercept at zero gel concentration in gels containing 4%C, and crossed at approximately 1.5%T in gels containing 5 and 10%C. If the mobilities observed for the different DNA fragments at zero gel concentration were also extrapolated to zero DNA molecular weight, a common limiting mobility was observed in gels of all crosslinker concentrations. This limiting mobility was approximately equal to the free solution mobility of DNA. The effective pore radius of each gel was estimated from Ferguson plots based on relative mobilities, using the mobility of the smallest DNA fragment in each molecular weight ladder as the reference mobility. The calculated gel pore radii ranged from 142 nm to 19 nm, respectively, for gels containing 4.6%T, 1.5%C, and 10.5%T, 5 or 10%C. These pore radii are an order of magnitude larger than previously accepted values, but are consistent with scanning electron microscope measurements (Rüchel, R., et al., J. Chromatogr. 1978, 42, 77-90).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D L Holmes
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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Larone GE, Hunting DJ. Purification of DNA fragments containing excision-repair patches from human cells using streptavidin-biotin. Mutat Res 1991; 254:273-80. [PMID: 2052014 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(91)90066-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have developed a method for purifying DNA fragments containing excision-repair patches which involves incorporation of biotinated deoxyuridine monophosphate into repair patches followed by isolation of biotin-containing DNA fragments using streptavidin and either isopycnic density gradient centrifugation or gel electrophoresis. Normal human fibroblasts were damaged with UV radiation, rendered permeable and allowed to perform repair synthesis in the presence of ATP, dATP, dGTP, [3H]dCTP and biotinated deoxyuridine triphosphate. The DNA was purified, sonicated to a number-average molecular weight of 150 bp, then incubated with streptavidin, a protein with a high affinity for biotin and with a density of 1.3 g/ml in cesium trifluoroacetate compared to 1.6 g/ml for DNA. Isopycnic centrifugation in cesium trifluoroacetate resulted in the separation of the streptavidin-DNA complex with little or no dissociation. The streptavidin-DNA complex was also separated from free DNA by electrophoresis in 2% agarose. This method is applicable to any type DNA damage repaired by the excision repair pathways in which thymine is present in the repair patches, including damage from chemical carcinogens and ionizing radiation.
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- G E Larone
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Holmes DL, Stellwagen NC. Estimation of polyacrylamide gel pore size from Ferguson plots of normal and anomalously migrating DNA fragments. I. Gels containing 3% N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide. Electrophoresis 1991; 12:253-63. [PMID: 2070781 DOI: 10.1002/elps.1150120405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The mobilities of normal and anomalously migrating DNA fragments were determined in polyacrylamide gels of different acrylamide concentrations, polymerized with 3% N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide as the crosslinker. The DNA samples were a commercially available 123-bp ladder and two molecular weight ladders containing multiple copies of two 147-base pair (bp) restriction fragments, obtained from the MspI digestion of plasmid pBR322. One of the 147 bp fragments is known to migrate anomalously slowly in polyacrylamide gels. Ferguson plots were constructed for all multimer ladders, using both absolute mobilities and relative mobilities with respect to the smallest DNA molecule in each data set. If the retardation coefficients were calculated from the relative mobilities, and the rms radius of gyration was used as the measure of DNA size, the Ogston equations were obeyed and the gel fiber parameters could be calculated. The effective pore sizes of the gels were estimated from the gel concentration at which the mobility of a given DNA molecule was reduced to one-half its mobility at zero gel concentration. The estimated pore radii ranged from approximately 130 nm for 3.5% gels to approximately 70 nm for 10.5% gels. These values are much larger than the pore sizes previously determined for the polyacrylamide matrix.
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- D L Holmes
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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The DNA double helix exhibits local sequence-dependent polymorphism at the level of the single base pair and dinucleotide step. Curvature of the DNA molecule occurs in DNA regions with a specific type of nucleotide sequence periodicities. Negative supercoiling induces in vitro local nucleotide sequence-dependent DNA structures such as cruciforms, left-handed DNA, multistranded structures, etc. Techniques based on chemical probes have been proposed that make it possible to study DNA local structures in cells. Recent results suggest that the local DNA structures observed in vitro exist in the cell, but their occurrence and structural details are dependent on the DNA superhelical density in the cell and can be related to some cellular processes.
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- E Palecek
- Max-Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, BRD
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