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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 312, Issue 5, Pages 949-962Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4941
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transcription; recombination; trimer; bending; analytical ultracentrifugation
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Allosteric activation of the hexameric arginine repressor (ArgR) for specific operator DNA binding appears to involve alteration in its quaternary structure. Current models for activation include subunit assembly and/or domain rearrangements in response to binding of the coeffector L-arginine. To investigate the molecular basis for ArgR operator interactions we have carried out a series of quantitative analyses of ArgR subunit assembly and of the affinity, stoichiometry, cooperativity, and L-arginine- and DNA sequence-dependence of ArgR-DNA binding. The results indicate that subunit assembly plays no role in although communication among subunits of the ArgR hexamer is required for specific DNA binding. The data suggest that DNA is also an allosteric effector of ArgR. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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