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Proni G, Tami K, Berova N, Ellestad GA. Circular dichroism analysis of the calicheamicin-DNA interaction revisited. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2017; 144:1-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2017.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Revised: 04/04/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Choudhury S, Ghosh B, Singh P, Ghosh R, Roy S, Pal SK. Ultrafast differential flexibility of Cro-protein binding domains of two operator DNAs with different sequences. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:17983-90. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02522f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The crucial ultrafast domain fluctuation of the operator DNA OR3 over OR2 upon complexation with the repressor Cro-protein dimer has been investigated.
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- Susobhan Choudhury
- Department of Chemical
- Biological & Macromolecular Sciences
- S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
- Kolkata 700 098
- India
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- Division of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
- Kolkata 700 032
- India
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- Department of Chemical
- Biological & Macromolecular Sciences
- S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
- Kolkata 700 098
- India
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- Division of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
- Kolkata 700 032
- India
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- Division of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
- Kolkata 700 032
- India
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- Department of Chemical
- Biological & Macromolecular Sciences
- S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
- Kolkata 700 098
- India
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Scarlett G, Siligardi G, Kneale GG. Circular Dichroism for the Analysis of Protein-DNA Interactions. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1334:299-312. [PMID: 26404158 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2877-4_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The aim of this chapter is to provide information on the practical aspects of circular dichroism (CD) and synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) in protein-nucleic acids interaction solution studies. The chapter will describe the guidelines appropriate to designing experiments and conducting correct data interpretation, the use of both benchtop and synchrotron CD approaches is discussed and the advantages of SRCD outlined. Further information and a good general review of the field a can be found in Gray (Circular Dichroism of protein-nucleic acid interactions. In: Fasman GD (ed) Circular dichroism and the conformational analysis of biomolecules. Plenum Press, New York. pp 469-500, 1996).
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- Garry Scarlett
- Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, King Henry 1st Building, Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, UK.
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, King Henry 1st Building, Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, UK
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Mazumder A, Maiti A, Roy K, Roy S. A synthetic peptide mimic of λ-Cro shows sequence-specific binding in vitro and in vivo. ACS Chem Biol 2012; 7:1084-94. [PMID: 22480451 DOI: 10.1021/cb200523n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Development of small synthetic transcription factors is important for future cellular engineering and therapeutics. This article describes the chemical synthesis of α-amino-isobutyric acid (Aib) substituted, conformationally constrained, helical peptide mimics of Cro protein from bacteriophage λ that encompasses the DNA recognition elements. The Aib substituted constrained helical peptide monomer shows a moderately reduced dissociation constant compared to the corresponding unsubstituted wild type peptide. A suitably cross-linked dimeric version of the peptide, mimicking the dimeric protein, recapitulates some of the important features of Cro. It binds to the operator site O(R)3, a high affinity Cro binding site in the λ genome, with good affinity and single base-pair discrimination specificity. A dimeric version of an even shorter peptide mimic spanning only the recognition helix of the helix-turn-helix motif of the Cro protein was created following the same design principles. This dimeric peptide binds to O(R)3 with affinity greater than that of the longer version. Chemical shift perturbation experiments show that the binding mode of this peptide dimer to the cognate operator site sequence is similar to the wild type Cro protein. A Green Fluorescent Protein based reporter assay in vivo reveals that the peptide dimer binds the operator site sequences with considerable selectivity and inhibits gene expression. Peptide mimics designed in this way may provide a future framework for creating effective synthetic transcription factors.
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- Abhishek Mazumder
- Divisions of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja
S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Divisions of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja
S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Divisions of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja
S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Divisions of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja
S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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Study of interactions between DNA and aflatoxin B1 using electrochemical and fluorescence methods. Anal Biochem 2011; 411:218-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2011.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Revised: 12/11/2010] [Accepted: 01/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Circular dichroism (CD) is a well-established technique for the analysis of both protein and DNA structure. The analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes presents greater challenges, but at wavelengths above 250 nm, the circular dichroism signal from the DNA predominates. Examples are given of the use of CD to examine structural changes to DNA induced by protein binding.
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- P D Cary
- Biophysics Laboratories, Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science, St. Michael's Building, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2DT, UK
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Papapanagiotou I, Streeter SD, Cary PD, Kneale GG. DNA structural deformations in the interaction of the controller protein C.AhdI with its operator sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:2643-50. [PMID: 17426137 PMCID: PMC1885659 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Controller proteins such as C.AhdI regulate the expression of bacterial restriction-modification genes, and ensure that methylation of the host DNA precedes restriction by delaying transcription of the endonuclease. The operator DNA sequence to which C.AhdI binds consists of two adjacent binding sites, O(L) and O(R). Binding of C.AhdI to O(L) and to O(L) + O(R) has been investigated by circular permutation DNA-bending assays and by circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. CD indicates considerable distortion to the DNA when bound by C.AhdI. Binding to one or two sites to form dimeric and tetrameric complexes increases the CD signal at 278 nm by 40 and 80% respectively, showing identical local distortion at both sites. In contrast, DNA-bending assays gave similar bend angles for both dimeric and tetrameric complexes (47 and 38 degrees, respectively). The relative orientation of C.AhdI dimers in the tetrameric complex and the structural role of the conserved Py-A-T sequences found at the centre of C-protein-binding sites are discussed.
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- *To whom correspondence should be addressed 02392 842 67802393 842 053
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Surovaya AN, Gitelson GI, Gursky GV. Interaction of λ Cro repressor and its V55C mutant S-S dimer with symmetrical and asymmetrical DNA. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2006. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006350906030109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Tochio H, Kojima C, Matsuo H, Yamazaki T, Kyogoku Y. Intermolecular contacts between the lambda-Cro repressor and the operator DNA characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. J Biomol Struct Dyn 1999; 16:989-1002. [PMID: 10333170 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1999.10508309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The specific interaction between lambda phage Cro repressor and the DNA fragment bearing the consensus sequence of operators has been studied using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Using both 15N- and 13C/15N- labeled lambda-Cro in complex with unlabeled DNA, chemical shift assignments of the lambda-Cro-DNA complex were obtained using heteronuclear NMR experiments. Inter-molecular contacts between the protein and DNA were identified using heteronuclear filtered NOESY experiments. The inter-molecular contacts were supplemented with intra-protein and intra-DNA NOE constraints to dock lambda-Cro to the bent B-form DNA using restrained molecular dynamics. The structure of one of the subunits of lambda-Cro in the complex is essentially the same as that of the unbound form. In the complex, inter-molecular NOEs were observed between the "helix-turn-helix" region comprising the alpha2 and alpha3 helices of the lambda-Cro protein and the major groove of the DNA. The methyl group of Thr17 forms a hydrophobic contact with the methyl group of the thymine at base pair 1 in the DNA, and Val25 and Ala29 make hydrophobic contacts with the methyl group of the thymine at base pair 5. The presence and the absence of these contacts can explain the difference in the affinity of lambda-Cro to several variants of the operator sequence.
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- H Tochio
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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Albright RA, Matthews BW. Crystal structure of lambda-Cro bound to a consensus operator at 3.0 A resolution. J Mol Biol 1998; 280:137-51. [PMID: 9653037 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The structure of the Cro protein from bacteriophage lambda in complex with a 19 base-pair DNA duplex that includes the 17 base-pair consensus operator has been determined at 3.0 A resolution. The structure confirms the large changes in the protein and DNA seen previously in a crystallographically distinct low-resolution structure of the complex and, for the first time, reveals the detailed interactions between the side-chains of the protein and the base-pairs of the operator. Relative to the crystal structure of the free protein, the subunits of Cro rotate 53 degrees with respect to each other on binding DNA. At the same time the DNA is bent by 40 degrees through the 19 base-pairs. The intersubunit connection includes a region within the protein core that is structurally reminiscent of the "ball and socket" motif seen in the immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors. The crystal structure of the Cro complex is consistent with virtually all available biochemical and related data. Some of the interactions between Cro and DNA proposed on the basis of model-building are now seen to be correct, but many are different. Tests of the original model by mutagenesis and biochemical analysis corrected some but not all of the errors. Within the limitations of the crystallographic resolution it appears that operator recognition is achieved almost entirely by direct hydrogen-bonding and van der Waals contacts between the protein and the exposed bases within the major groove of the DNA. The discrimination of Cro between the operators OR3 and OR1, which differ in sequence at just three positions, is inferred to result from a combination of small differences, both favorable and unfavorable. A van der Waals contact at one of the positions is of primary importance, while the other two provide smaller, indirect effects. Direct hydrogen bonding is not utilized in this distinction.
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- R A Albright
- Institute of Molecular Biology Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403-1229, USA
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Albright RA, Mossing MC, Matthews BW. Crystal structure of an engineered Cro monomer bound nonspecifically to DNA: possible implications for nonspecific binding by the wild-type protein. Protein Sci 1998; 7:1485-94. [PMID: 9684880 PMCID: PMC2144066 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The structure has been determined at 3.0 A resolution of a complex of engineered monomeric Cro repressor with a seven-base pair DNA fragment. Although the sequence of the DNA corresponds to the consensus half-operator that is recognized by each subunit of the wild-type Cro dimer, the complex that is formed in the crystals by the isolated monomer appears to correspond to a sequence-independent mode of association. The overall orientation of the protein relative to the DNA is markedly different from that observed for Cro dimer bound to a consensus operator. The recognition helix is rotated 48 degrees further out of the major groove, while the turn region of the helix-turn-helix remains in contact with the DNA backbone. All of the direct base-specific interactions seen in the wild-type Cro-operator complex are lost. Virtually all of the ionic interactions with the DNA backbone, however, are maintained, as is the subset of contacts between the DNA backbone and a channel on the protein surface. Overall, 25% less surface area is buried at the protein DNA interface than for half of the wild-type Cro-operator complex, and the contacts are more ionic in character due to a reduction of hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions. Based on this crystal structure, model building was used to develop a possible model for the sequence-nonspecific interaction of the wild-type Cro dimer with DNA. In the sequence-specific complex, the DNA is bent, the protein dimer undergoes a large hinge-bending motion relative to the uncomplexed form, and the complex is twofold symmetric. In contrast, in the proposed nonspecific complex the DNA is straight, the protein retains a conformation similar to the apo form, and the complex lacks twofold symmetry. The model is consistent with thermodynamic, chemical, and mutagenic studies, and suggests that hinge bending of the Cro dimer may be critical in permitting the transition from the binding of protein at generic sites on the DNA to binding at high affinity operator sites.
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- R A Albright
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403, USA
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Binding energy of DNA-Cro protein complexes is analyzed in terms of DNA elasticity, using a sequence-dependent anisotropic bendability (SDAB) model of DNA, developed recently [M.M. Gromiha, M.G. Munteanu, A. Gabrielian and S. Pongor, J. Biol. Phys. 22(1996) 227-243.]. The protein is considered to bind aspecifically to DNA that reduces the freedom of movement in the DNA molecule. In cognate DNA, the Cro protein moves on to form specific interactions and bends DNA. A comparison of the experimental data [Y. Takeda, A. Sarai and V.M. Rivera, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86 (1989) 439-443.] with the calculated DNA stiffness data shows that delta G of the complex formation increases with stiffness of the ligand when the interactions are nonspecific ones, while an opposite trend is observed for specific binding. Both of these trends are in agreement with our approach using the SDAB model. A decomposition of the energy terms suggests that binding energy in the nonspecific case is used maily to compensate the free energy changes due to entropy lost by DNA, while the energy of specific interactions provide enough energy both to bend the DNA molecule and to change the conformation of the Cro protein upon ligand binding.
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- M M Gromiha
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Federwisch M, Hassiepen U, Bender K, Rajewsky MF, Wollmer A. Recombinant human O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase induces conformational change in bound DNA. FEBS Lett 1997; 407:333-6. [PMID: 9175879 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00370-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Circular dichroism, and steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy were used to compare the native recombinant human DNA repair protein O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) with AGT bound to ds-DNA. Contrary to fluorescence, analysis of the far-UV CD spectra indicated a conformational change of AGT upon binding to DNA: its alpha-helical content is increased by approximately 12%. Analysis of near-UV CD spectra revealed that DNA was also affected, probably being separated into single strands locally.
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- M Federwisch
- Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research) [IFZ], University of Essen Medical School, Germany
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Bandyopadhyay S, Mukhopadhyay C, Roy S. Dimer-dimer interfaces of the lambda-repressor are different in liganded and free states. Biochemistry 1996; 35:5033-40. [PMID: 8664296 DOI: 10.1021/bi952123f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Lambda-repressor dimers associate in solution to form tetramers and higher order structures. Dimer-dimer contact is also crucial in cooperative binding to adjacent operators. Fluorescence quenching studies indicate that the tryptophan 230 environment is significantly different in unliganded and adjacent operator-bound tetramers. Acrylodan attached to Cys 235, in a mutant F235C repressor, is also in different environments in the unliganded and adjacent operator bound tetramers. Thermodynamics of protein association, measured by fluorescence anisotropy, indicate that, whereas free repressor dimer association is strongly enthalpy driven, the single-operator (OR1)-bound repressor dimer association is largely entrophy driven with little change in enthalpy. Single-operator-bound dimer association to the corresponding tetramer does not lead to any significant change in tryptophan 230 environment, as was seen in the case of the free repressor. Data are also presented to support the contention that, under the conditions of this study, the free repressor association is predominantly from dimer to tetramer and then to octamer, unlike the dimer to octamer transition observed under a different condition. The results presented here point toward the conclusion that the lambda-repressor dimer-dimer interface is significantly different in the free and operator-bound states and that operator binding plays a crucial role in changing the nature of the dimer-dimer interface.
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Lyubchenko YL, Shlyakhtenko LS, Appella E, Harrington RE. CA runs increase DNA flexibility in the complex of lambda Cro protein with the OR3 site. Biochemistry 1993; 32:4121-7. [PMID: 8471619 DOI: 10.1021/bi00066a038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The alternating pyrimidine-purine elements CA, CAC, and CACA are anisotropically flexible, as deduced from gel circularization assays on point mutations and single-base mismatches in the OR3 site of lambda phage alone and in the specific complex with the Cro protein. These sequences evidently promote DNA bending in the specific binding region of the complex and may also facilitate overwinding in the central nonbinding region. Effects for CACA are exceptionally large and suggest that an alternative DNA structure may occur in this element.
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- Y L Lyubchenko
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada-Reno 89557
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Gursky GV, Surovaya AN, Kurochkin AV, Chernov BK, Volkov SK, Kirpichnikov MP. Interaction of lambda cro repressor with synthetic operator OR3 studied by competition binding with minor groove binders. J Biomol Struct Dyn 1992; 10:15-33. [PMID: 1329842 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1992.10508627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In the present work, we employ a combination of CD spectroscopy and gel retardation technique to characterize thermodynamically the binding of lambda phage cro repressor to a 17 base pair operator OR3. We have found that three minor groove-binding antibiotics, distamycin A, netropsin and sibiromycin, compete effectively with the cro for binding to the operator OR3. Among these antibiotics, sibiromycin binds covalently to DNA in the minor groove at the NH2 of guanine, whereas distamycin A and netropsin interact preferentially with runs of AT base pairs and avoid DNA regions containing guanine bases in the two polynucleotide strands. Only subtle DNA conformation changes are known to take place upon binding of these antibiotics. Both the CD spectral profiles and the results of the gel retardation experiments indicate that distamycin A and netropsin can displace cro repressor from the operator OR3. The binding of cro repressor to the OR3 is accompanied by considerable changes in CD in the far-UV region which appear to be attributed to a DNA-dependent structural transition in the protein. Spectral changes are also induced in the wavelength region of 270-290 nm. The CD spectral profile of the cro-OR3 mixture in the presence of distamycin A can be represented as a sum of the CD spectrum of the repressor-operator complex and spectrum of distamycin-DNA complex at the appropriate molar ratio of the bound antibiotic to the operator DNA (r). When r tends to the saturation level of binding the CD spectrum in the region of 270-360 nm approaches a CD pattern typical of complexes of the antibiotic with the free DNA oligomer. This suggests that simultaneous binding of cro repressor and distamycin A to the same DNA oligomer is not possible and that distamycin A and netropsin can be used to determine the equilibrium affinity constant of cro repressor to the synthetic operator from competition-type experiments. The binding constant of cro repressor to the OR3 is found to be (6 +/- 1).10(6)M-1 at 20 degrees C in 10 mM sodium cacodylate buffer (pH 7.0) in the presence of 0.1 M NH4F.
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- G V Gursky
- W.A. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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