Proton-linked contributions to site-specific interactions of lambda cI repressor and OR.
Proton-linked contributions to site-specific interactions of lambda cI repressor and OR.
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质子连接对 lambda cI 阻遏物和 OR 的位点特异性相互作用的贡献。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00480a004
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发表时间:
1990
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Ackers,GK
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作者:
Senear,DF;Ackers,GK
The effects of proton activity on the site-specific interactions of cl repressors with operator sites 0R were studied by using DNase I footprint titration. Individual-site binding isotherms were obtained for the binding of repressor to each site of wild-type0R and of mutant operators in which binding to some sites is eliminated. The Gibbs energies for binding and for cooperativity (in every operator configuration) were determined at each pH (range 5-8). The proton-linked effects clearly account for a significant fraction of the difference in affinities for thethree operator sites. The most dramatic effects on the repressor-operator binding interactions are at acid pH, and therefore do not involve the basic groups in the repressor N-terminal arm known to contact the DNA. Also, the proton-linked effects are different at the three operator sites as indicated by significantly different derivative relationships, d In k/d In an= AvH. These results implicate ionizable repressor groups which may not contact the DNA and conformational differencesbetween the three repressor-operator site complexes as being important components to the mechanism of site specificity. The extensive data base generated by these studies was also used to reevaluate the traditional models used to describe cooperativity in this system. The results confirm the lack of significant cooperative interaction between 0R1 and Or3 at all conditions. However, the data for some experimental conditions are clearly inconsistent with the (selection) rule, that cooperative interaction between Or2 and Or3 is eliminated by ligation at 0R1 [Johnson, A. D., Meyer, BJ, & Ptashne, M.(1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 5061-5065],