THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SPECIFIC AND NONSPECIFIC EQUILIBRIUM BINDING OF PROTEINS TO DNA AS STUDIED BY THE NITROCELLULOSE FILTER BINDING ASSAY - COOPERATIVE AND NON-COOPERATIVE BINDING TO A ONE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SPECIFIC AND NONSPECIFIC EQUILIBRIUM BINDING OF PROTEINS TO DNA AS STUDIED BY THE NITROCELLULOSE FILTER BINDING ASSAY - COOPERATIVE AND NON-COOPERATIVE BINDING TO A ONE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(82)90481-8
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
DAVIES, RW
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作者:
CLORE, GM;GRONENBORN, AM;DAVIES, RW
The analysis of equilibrium binding isotherms obtained by methods such as the nitrocellulose filter binding assay, which measure the fraction, .theta., of DNA to which at least 1 protein molecule is bound, as a function of the free protein concentration (LF) require a different type of theoretical framework from that required for analysis of conventional equilibrium binding data, in which the number of moles of protein bound/mol of DNA, .theta.c, is measured as a function of LF. The theoretical framework required to analyse equilibrium binding data generated by measuring .theta.(LF) is developed for cooperative and noncooperative binding of a protein to a large number of non-specific sites and to a specific site(s) in the presence of a large number of non-specific sites on a DNA molecule. The theory is simple to apply, equations for .theta.(LF) being easy to derive and evaluate, and is suitable for least-squares analysis. Two examples of the application of the theory to the analysis of experimental data are provided for the specific and non-specific binding of the EcoRI restriction endonuclease to bacteriophage .lambda. DNA, and for the specific and non-specific binding of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase from Lactobacillus casei to pBR322 and pWDLcB1 DNA, the latter differing from the former only in a 2.9 .times. 103 base-pair insert containing the L. casei dihydrofolate reductase structural gene. The theoretical and experimental advantages and disadvantages of measuring .theta.(LF) rather than .theta.C(LF) are discussed.