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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 1092-1100Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.72
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Hydroxyl radical footprinting has been widely used for studying the structure of DNA and DNA-protein complexes. The high reactivity and lack of base specificity of the hydroxyl radical makes it an excellent probe for high-resolution footprinting of DNA-protein complexes; this technique can provide structural detail that is not achievable using DNase I footprinting. Hydroxyl radical footprinting experiments can be carried out using readily available and inexpensive reagents and lab equipment. This method involves using the hydroxyl radical to cleave a nucleic acid molecule that is bound to a protein, followed by separating the cleavage products on a denaturing electrophoresis gel to identify the protein-binding sites on the nucleic acid molecule. We describe a protocol for hydroxyl radical footprinting of DNA-protein complexes, along with a troubleshooting guide, that allows researchers to obtain efficient cleavage of DNA in the presence and absence of proteins. This protocol can be completed in 2 d.
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