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Solomun T, Cordsmeier L, Hallier DC, Seitz H, Hahn MB. Interaction of a Dimeric Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein (G5P) with DNA Hairpins. A Molecular Beacon Study. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:8131-8138. [PMID: 37704207 PMCID: PMC10544328 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c03669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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Gene-V protein (G5P/GVP) is a single-stranded (ss)DNA-binding protein (SBP) of bacteriophage f1 that is required for DNA synthesis and repair. In solution, it exists as a dimer that binds two antiparallel ssDNA strands with high affinity in a cooperative manner, forming a left-handed helical protein-DNA filament. Here, we report on fluorescence studies of the interaction of G5P with different DNA oligonucleotides having a hairpin structure (molecular beacon, MB) with a seven base-pair stem (dT24-stem7, dT18-stem7), as well as with DNA oligonucleotides (dT38, dT24) without a defined secondary structure. All oligonucleotides were end-labeled with a Cy3-fluorophore and a BHQ2-quencher. In the case of DNA oligonucleotides without a secondary structure, an almost complete quenching of their strong fluorescence (with about 5% residual intensity) was observed upon the binding of G5P. This implies an exact alignment of the ends of the DNA strand(s) in the saturated complex. The interaction of the DNA hairpins with G5P led to the unzipping of the base-paired stem, as revealed by fluorescence measurements, fluorescence microfluidic mixing experiments, and electrophoretic mobility shift assay data. Importantly, the disruption of ssDNA's secondary structure agrees with the behavior of other single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SBPs). In addition, substantial protein-induced fluorescence enhancement (PIFE) of the Cy3-fluorescence was observed.
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- Tihomir Solomun
- Bundesanstalt
für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin 12205, Germany
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- Bundesanstalt
für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin 12205, Germany
- Institut
für Chemie, Freie Universität
Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Bundesanstalt
für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin 12205, Germany
- Institut
für Biochemie und Biologie, Universität
Potsdam, Potsdam 14476, Germany
- Fraunhofer
Institut für Zelltherapie und Immunologie Institutsteil Bioanalytik
und Bioprozesse IZI-BB, Potsdam 14476, Germany
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- Institut
für Biochemie und Biologie, Universität
Potsdam, Potsdam 14476, Germany
- Fraunhofer
Institut für Zelltherapie und Immunologie Institutsteil Bioanalytik
und Bioprozesse IZI-BB, Potsdam 14476, Germany
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- Bundesanstalt
für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin 12205, Germany
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Conformational Changes in Ff Phage Protein gVp upon Complexation with Its Viral Single-Stranded DNA Revealed Using Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR. Viruses 2022; 14:v14061264. [PMID: 35746735 PMCID: PMC9231167 DOI: 10.3390/v14061264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Revised: 06/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/05/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Gene V protein (gVp) of the bacteriophages of the Ff family is a non-specific single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein. gVp binds to viral DNA during phage replication inside host Escherichia coli cells, thereby blocking further replication and signaling the assembly of new phage particles. gVp is a dimer in solution and in crystal form. A structural model of the complex between gVp and ssDNA was obtained via docking the free gVp to structures of short ssDNA segments and via the detection of residues involved in DNA binding in solution. Using solid-state NMR, we characterized structural features of the gVp in complex with full-length viral ssDNA. We show that gVp binds ssDNA with an average distance of 5.5 Å between the amino acid residues of the protein and the phosphate backbone of the DNA. Torsion angle predictions and chemical shift perturbations indicate that there were considerable structural changes throughout the protein upon complexation with ssDNA, with the most significant variations occurring at the ssDNA binding loop and the C-terminus. Our data suggests that the structure of gVp in complex with ssDNA differs significantly from the structure of gVp in the free form, presumably to allow for cooperative binding of dimers to form the filamentous phage particle.
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Nguyen HN, Zhao L, Gray CW, Gray DM, Xia T. Nucleotides sequestered at different subsite loci within DNA-binding pockets of two OB-fold single-stranded DNA-binding proteins are unstacked to different extents. Biopolymers 2016; 99:484-96. [PMID: 23616216 DOI: 10.1002/bip.22204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2012] [Accepted: 01/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The gene 5 protein (g5p) encoded by the Ff strains of Escherichia coli bacteriophages is a dimeric single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) that consists of two identical OB-fold (oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding) motifs. Ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence measurements were carried out to investigate the effect of g5p binding on the conformation of 2-aminopurine (2AP) labels positioned between adenines or cytosines in the 16-nucleotide antiparallel tails of DNA hairpins. The measurements revealed significant changes in the conformational heterogeneity of the 2AP labels caused by g5p binding. The extent of the changes was dependent on sub-binding-site location, but generally resulted in base unstacking. When bound by g5p, the unstacked 2AP population increased from ∼ 22% to 59-67% in C-2AP-C segments and from 39% to 77% in an A-2AP-A segment. The OB-fold RPA70A domain of the human replication protein A also caused a significant amount of base unstacking at various locations within the DNA binding site as evidenced by steady-state fluorescence titration measurements using 2AP-labeled 5-mer DNAs. These solution studies support the concept that base unstacking at most of a protein's multiple sub-binding-site loci may be a feature that allows non-sequence specific OB-fold proteins to bind to single-stranded DNAs (ssDNAs) with minimal preference for particular sequences.
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- Hieu N Nguyen
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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Bardelang D, Casano G, Poulhès F, Karoui H, Filippini J, Rockenbauer A, Rosas R, Monnier V, Siri D, Gaudel-Siri A, Ouari O, Tordo P. Spin Exchange Monitoring of the Strong Positive Homotropic Allosteric Binding of a Tetraradical by a Synthetic Receptor in Water. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:17570-7. [DOI: 10.1021/ja509586k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- David Bardelang
- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Department of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics and MTA-BME Condensed Matter Research Group, Budafoki ut 8, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Spectropole, FR 1739, 13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Spectropole, FR 1739, 13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France
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Nguyen HN, Zhao L, Gray CW, Gray DM, Xia T. Ultrafast fluorescence decay profiles reveal differential unstacking of 2-aminopurine from neighboring bases in single-stranded DNA-binding protein subsites. Biochemistry 2011; 50:8989-9001. [PMID: 21916413 DOI: 10.1021/bi2006543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Gene 5 protein (g5p) is a dimeric single-stranded DNA-binding protein encoded by Ff strains of Escherichia coli bacteriophages. The 2-fold rotationally symmetric binding sites of a g5p dimer each bind to four nucleotides, and the dimers bind with high cooperativity to saturate antiparallel single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) strands. Ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopies were used to investigate the conformational heterogeneity and dynamics of fluorescent 2-aminopurine (2AP) labels sequestered by bound g5p. The 2AP labels were positioned within the noncomplementary antiparallel tail sequences of d(AC)(8) or d(AC)(9) of hairpin constructs so that each fluorescent label could probe a different subsite location within the DNA-binding site of g5p. Circular dichroism and isothermal calorimetric titrations yielded binding stoichiometries of approximately six dimers per oligomer hairpin when tails were of these lengths. Mobility shift assays demonstrated the formation of a single type of g5p-saturated complex. Femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy showed that the 2AP in the free (non-protein-bound) DNAs had similar heterogeneous distributions of conformations. However, there were significant changes, dominated by a large increase in the population of unstacked bases from ~22 to 59-68%, depending on their subsite locations, when the oligomers were saturated with g5p. Anisotropy data indicated that 2AP in the bound state was less flexible than in the free oligomer. A control oligomer was labeled with 2AP in the loop of the hairpin and showed no significant change in its base stacking upon g5p binding. A proposed model summarizes the data.
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- Hieu-Ngoc Nguyen
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021, United States
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Lee SK, Maye MM, Zhang YB, Gang O, van der Lelie D. Controllable g5p-protein-directed aggregation of ssDNA-gold nanoparticles. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2009; 25:657-660. [PMID: 19072316 DOI: 10.1021/la803596q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We assembled single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) conjugated nanoparticles using the phage M13 gene 5 protein (g5p) as the molecular glue to bind two antiparallel noncomplementary ssDNA strands. The entire process was controlled tightly by the concentration of the g5p protein and the presence of double-stranded DNA. The g5p-ssDNA aggregate was disintegrated by hybridization with complementary ssDNA (C-ssDNA) that triggers the dissociation of the complex. Polyhistidine-tagged g5p was bound to nickel nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni2+-NTA) conjugated nanoparticles and subsequently used to coassemble the ssDNA-conjugated nanoparticles into multiparticle-type aggregates. Our approach offers great promise for designing biologically functional, controllable protein/nanoparticle composites.
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- Soo-Kwan Lee
- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Mou TC, Shen M, Abdalla S, Delamora D, Bochkareva E, Bochkarev A, Gray DM. Effects of ssDNA sequences on non-sequence-specific protein binding. Chirality 2007; 18:370-82. [PMID: 16575881 DOI: 10.1002/chir.20262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The circular dichroism (CD) spectra of single-stranded DNAs (ssDNAs) are significantly perturbed by the binding of single-stranded DNA binding proteins such as the Ff bacteriophage gene 5 protein (g5p) and the A domain of the 70 kDa subunit of human replication protein A (RPA70-A). These two proteins have similar OB-fold secondary structures, although their CD spectra at wavelengths below 250 nm differ greatly. The spectrum of g5p is dominated by a tyrosyl L(a) band at 229 nm, while that of RPA70-A is dominated by its beta secondary structure. Despite differences in their inherent spectral properties, these two proteins similarly perturb the spectra of bound nucleic acid oligomers. CD spectra of free, non-protein-bound ssDNAs are dependent on interactions of the nearest-neighboring nucleotides in the sequence. The CD spectra (per mol of nucleotide) of simple repetitive sequences 48 nucleotides in length and containing simple combinations of A and C are related by nearest-neighbor equations. For example, 3 x Deltaepsilon[d(AAC)(16)] = 3 x Deltaepsilon[d(ACC)(16)] + Deltaepsilon[d(A)(48)] - Deltaepsilon[d(C)(48)]. Moreover, nearest-neighbor equations relate the spectra of ssDNAs when they are bound by g5p, indicating that each type of perturbed nearest neighbor has a similar average structure within the binding site of the protein.
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- Tung-Chung Mou
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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Mou TC, Shen MC, Terwilliger TC, Gray DM. Binding and reversible denaturation of double-stranded DNA by Ff gene 5 protein. Biopolymers 2004; 70:637-48. [PMID: 14648774 DOI: 10.1002/bip.10500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The gene 5 protein (g5p) from Ff filamentous virus is a model single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein that has an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide binding (OB)-fold structure and binding properties in common with other ssDNA-binding proteins. In the present work, we use circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy to analyze the effects of amino acid substitutions on the binding of g5p to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) compared to its binding to ssDNA. CD titrations of poly[d(A). d(T)] with mutants of each of the five tyrosines of the g5p showed that the 229-nm CD band of Tyr34, a tyrosine at the interface of adjacent protein dimers, is reversed in sign upon binding to the dsDNA, poly[d(A). d(T)]. This effect is like that previously found for g5p binding to ssDNAs, suggesting there are similarities in the protein-protein interactions when g5p binds to dsDNA and ssDNA. However, there are differences, and the possible perturbation of a second tyrosine, Tyr41, in the complex with dsDNA. Three mutant proteins (Y26F, Y34F, and Y41H) reduced the melting temperature of poly[d(A). d(T)] by 67 degrees C, but the wild-type g5p only reduced it by 2 degrees C. This enhanced ability of the mutants to denature dsDNA suggests that their binding affinities to dsDNA are reduced more than are their binding affinities to ssDNA. Finally, we present evidence that when poly[d(A). d(T)] is melted in the presence of the wild-type, Y26F, or Y34F proteins, the poly[d(A)] and poly[d(T)] strands are separately sequestered such that renaturation of the duplex is facilitated in 2 mM Na(+).
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- Tung-Chung Mou
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Mail Stop FO31, University of Texas at Dallas, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA
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Mou TC, Sreerama N, Terwilliger TC, Woody RW, Gray DM. Independent tyrosyl contributions to the CD of Ff gene 5 protein and the distinctive effects of Y41H and Y41F mutants on protein-protein cooperative interactions. Protein Sci 2002; 11:601-13. [PMID: 11847282 PMCID: PMC2373458 DOI: 10.1110/ps.30002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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The gene 5 protein (g5p) of the Ff virus contains five Tyr, individual mutants of which have now all been characterized by CD spectroscopy. The protein has a dominant tyrosyl 229-nm L(a) CD band that is shown to be approximately the sum of the five individual Tyr contributions. Tyr41 is particularly important in contributing to the high cooperativity with which the g5p binds to ssDNA, and Y41F and Y41H mutants are known to differ in dimer-dimer packing interactions in crystal structures. We compared the solution structures and binding properties of the Y41F and Y41H mutants using CD spectroscopy. Secondary structures of the mutants were similar by CD analyses and close to those derived from the crystal structures. However, there were significant differences in the binding properties of the two mutant proteins. The Y41H protein had an especially low binding affinity and perturbed the spectrum of poly[d(A)] in 2 mM Na(+) much less than did Y41F and the wild-type gene 5 proteins. Moreover, a change in the Tyr 229 nm band, assigned to the perturbation of Tyr34 at the dimer-dimer interface, was absent in titrations with the Y41H mutant under low salt conditions. In contrast, titrations with the Y41H mutant in 50 mM Na(+) exhibited typical CD changes of both the nucleic acid and the Tyr 229-nm band. Thus, protein-protein and g5p-ssDNA interactions appeared to be mutually influenced by ionic strength, indicative of correlated changes in the ssDNA binding and cooperativity loops of the protein or of indirect structural constraints.
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- Tung-Chung Mou
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083-0688, USA
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Mou TC, Gray DM. The high binding affinity of phosphorothioate-modified oligomers for Ff gene 5 protein is moderated by the addition of C-5 propyne or 2'-O-methyl modifications. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:749-58. [PMID: 11809888 PMCID: PMC100283 DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.3.749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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One of the problems that hamper the use of antisense DNAs as effective drugs is the non-specific binding of chemically-modified oligonucleotides to cellular proteins. We previously showed that the affinity of a model ssDNA-binding protein, the Ff gene 5 protein (g5p), was >300-fold higher for phosphorothioate-modified DNA (S-DNA) than for unmodified dA(36), consistent with the propensity of S-DNA to bind indiscriminately to proteins. The current work shows that g5p binding is also sensitive to sugar and pyrimidine modifications used in antisense oligomers. Binding affinities of g5p for 10 36mer oligomers were quantitated using solution circular dichroism measurements. The oligomers contained C-5-propyne (prC), 2'-O-methyl (2'-O-Me) or 2'-OH (RNA) groups, alone or combined with the phosphorothioate modification. In agreement with reported increases in antisense activity, the addition of prC or 2'-O-Me modifications substantially reduced the affinity of oligomers for g5p by approximately 2-fold compared with the same DNA oligomer sequences containing only phosphorothioate linkages. That is, such modifications moderated the propensity of the phosphorothioate group to bind tightly to the g5p. The Ff g5p could be a useful model protein for assessing non-specific binding effects of antisense oligomer modifications.
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- Tung-Chung Mou
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Mail Stop FO31, The University of Texas at Dallas, PO Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA
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Ihara T, Takeda Y, Jyo A. Metal ion-directed cooperative triple helix formation of glutamic acid--oligonucleotide conjugate. J Am Chem Soc 2001; 123:1772-3. [PMID: 11456784 DOI: 10.1021/ja0027362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- T Ihara
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto University, Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan.
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Mapelli M, Mühleisen M, Persico G, van Der Zandt H, Tucker PA. The 60-residue C-terminal region of the single-stranded DNA binding protein of herpes simplex virus type 1 is required for cooperative DNA binding. J Virol 2000; 74:8812-22. [PMID: 10982323 PMCID: PMC102075 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.19.8812-8822.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2000] [Accepted: 06/30/2000] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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ICP8 is the major single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein of the herpes simplex virus type 1 and is required for the onset and maintenance of viral genomic replication. To identify regions responsible for the cooperative binding to ssDNA, several mutants of ICP8 have been characterized. Total reflection X-ray fluorescence experiments on the constructs confirmed the presence of one zinc atom per molecule. Comparative analysis of the mutants by electrophoretic mobility shift assays was done with oligonucleotides for which the number of bases is approximately that occluded by one protein molecule. The analysis indicated that neither removal of the 60-amino-acid C-terminal region nor Cys254Ser and Cys455Ser mutations qualitatively affect the intrinsic DNA binding ability of ICP8. The C-terminal deletion mutants, however, exhibit a total loss of cooperativity on longer ssDNA stretches. This behavior is only slightly modulated by the two-cysteine substitution. Circular dichroism experiments suggest a role for this C-terminal tail in protein stabilization as well as in intermolecular interactions. The results show that the cooperative nature of the ssDNA binding of ICP8 is localized in the 60-residue C-terminal region. Since the anchoring of a C- or N-terminal arm of one protein onto the adjacent one on the DNA strand has been reported for other ssDNA binding proteins, this appears to be the general structural mechanism responsible for the cooperative ssDNA binding by this class of protein.
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- M Mapelli
- Structural Biology Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D69012 Heidelberg, Germany
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Ceschini S, Lupidi G, Coletta M, Pon CL, Fioretti E, Angeletti M. Multimeric self-assembly equilibria involving the histone-like protein H-NS. A thermodynamic study. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:729-34. [PMID: 10625601 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.2.729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The thermodynamic parameters affecting protein-protein multimeric self-assembly equilibria of the histone-like protein H-NS were quantified by "large zone" gel-permeation chromatography. The abundance of the different association states (monomer, dimer, and tetramer) were found to be strictly dependent on the monomeric concentration and affected by physical (temperature) and chemical (cations) parameters. On the basis of the results obtained in this study and the available structural information concerning this protein, a mechanism is proposed to explain the association behavior also in relation to the functional properties of the protein.
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- S Ceschini
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Animal Biology, Post-Graduate School in Clinical Biochemistry, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino (MC) Italy
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Mou TC, Gray CW, Gray DM. The binding affinity of Ff gene 5 protein depends on the nearest-neighbor composition of the ssDNA substrate. Biophys J 1999; 76:1537-51. [PMID: 10049334 PMCID: PMC1300130 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(99)77313-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The Ff gene 5 protein (g5p) is considered to be a nonspecific single-stranded DNA binding protein, because it binds cooperatively to and saturates the Ff bacteriophage single-stranded DNA genome and other single-stranded polynucleotides. However, the binding affinity Komega (the intrinsic binding constant times a cooperativity factor) differs by over an order of magnitude for binding to single-stranded polynucleotides such as poly[d(A)] and poly[d(C)]. A polynucleotide that is more stacked, like poly[d(A)], binds more weakly than one that is less stacked, like poly[d(C)]. To test the hypothesis that DNA base stacking, a nearest-neighbor property, is involved in the binding affinity of the Ff g5p for different DNA sequences, Komega values were determined as a function of NaCl concentration for binding to six synthetic sequences 48 nucleotides in length: dA48, dC48, d(AAC)16, d(ACC)16, d(AACC)12, and d(AAACC)9A3. The binding affinities of the protein for these sequences were indeed found to be related to the nearest-neighbor compositions of the sequences, rather than to simple base compositions. That is, the g5p binding site, which is spanned by four nucleotides, discriminates among these sequences on the basis of the relative numbers of nearest neighbors (AA, CC, and AC plus CA) in the sequence. The results support the hypothesis that the extent of base stacking/unstacking of the free, nonbound ssDNA plays an important role in the binding affinity of the Ff gene 5 protein.
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- T C Mou
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 USA
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