期刊
COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY & HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING
卷 9, 期 4, 页码 301-311出版社
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/138620706776843147
关键词
incremental truncation; flow cytometry; one-hybrid system; zinc fingers
资金
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 53293] Funding Source: Medline
We have developed two bacterial one-hybrid systems for interrogating and selecting zinc finger-DNA interactions. Our systems utilize two plasmids: a zinc finger-plasmid containing the gene for the zinc finger fused to a fragment of the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase and a reporter plasmid where the zinc finger-binding site is located upstream of a reporter gene-either the gene encoding the green fluorescent protein (GFP) or chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Binding of the zinc finger domain to the target binding site results in a 10-fold increase in chloramphenicol resistance with the CAT reporter and an 8- to 22-fold increase in total cell fluorescence with the GFP reporter. The CAT reporter allows for sequence specific zinc fingers to be isolated in a single selection step whereas the GFP reporter enables quantitative evaluation of libraries using flow cytometry and theoretically allows for both negative and positive selection. Both systems have been used to select for zinc fingers that have affinity for the motif 5'-GGGGCAGAA-3' from a library of approximately 2 x 10(5) variants. The systems have been engineered to report on zinc finger-DNA binding with dissociation constants less than about I mu M in order to be most applicable for evaluating binding specificity in an in vivo setting.
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