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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1230
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- NIH-NIGMS [GM-15792]
- Dreyfus Senior Mentor Undergraduate Research Award
- Monmouth University Creativity and Research Grant
- University of Oregon Library System
- NIH
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This study utilizes single-stranded DNA lattices and 2-AP probes to investigate the local interactions of DNA bases with the nucleic acid binding cleft of gp32 protein. By employing complementary spectroscopic approaches, the study characterizes these interactions at different levels of protein binding cooperativity and provides insights into how gp32 can manipulate the ssDNA chain during various processes.
In this study, we use single-stranded DNA (oligo-dT) lattices that have been position-specifically labeled with monomer or dimer 2-aminopurine (2-AP) probes to map the local interactions of the DNA bases with the nucleic acid binding cleft of gp32, the single-stranded binding (ssb) protein of bacteriophage T4. Three complementary spectroscopic approaches are used to characterize these local interactions of the probes with nearby nucleotide bases and amino acid residues at varying levels of effective protein binding cooperativity, as manipulated by changing lattice length. These include: (i) examining local quenching and enhancing effects on the fluorescence spectra of monomer 2-AP probes at each position within the cleft; (ii) using acrylamide as a dynamic-quenching additive to measure solvent access to monomer 2-AP probes at each ssDNA position; and (iii) employing circular dichroism spectra to characterize changes in exciton coupling within 2-AP dimer probes at specific ssDNA positions within the protein cleft. The results are interpreted in part by what we know about the topology of the binding cleft from crystallographic studies of the DNA binding domain of gp32 and provide additional insights into how gp32 can manipulate the ssDNA chain at various steps of DNA replication and other processes of genome expression.
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