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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 549, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2014.03.005
Keywords
Zinc fingers; Protein-DNA thermodynamics; Enthalpy-entropy compensation; Single nucleotide polymorphisms
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- National Institutes of Health [R01-GM083897, T32-CA119929]
- USylvester Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute
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In response to a wide variety of stimuli such as growth factors and hormones, EGR1 transcription factor is rapidly induced and immediately exerts downstream effects central to the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Herein, our biophysical analysis reveals that DNA sequence variations within the target gene promoters tightly modulate the energetics of binding of EGR1 and that nucleotide substitutions at certain positions are much more detrimental to EGR1-DNA interaction than others. Importantly, the reduction in binding affinity poorly correlates with the loss of enthalpy and gain of entropy-a trend indicative of a complex interplay between underlying thermodynamic factors due to the differential role of water solvent upon nucleotide substitution. We also provide a rationale for the physical basis of the effect of nucleotide substitutions on the EGR1-DNA interaction at atomic level. Taken together, our study bears important implications on understanding the molecular determinants of a key protein-DNA interaction at the cross-roads of human health and disease. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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