SPR IMAGING STUDIES OF PROTEIN/DNA INTERACTIONS

描述：(改编自申请人的摘要)这项工作的总体目标 研究是将表面等离子体共振(SPR)成像方法应用于 蛋白质-DNA相互作用的研究。蛋白质与蛋白质的序列特异性结合 DNA在基因表达的调控中起着关键作用， 复制和重组。此外，识别和修饰的酶 特定序列是生物DNA操作的关键组成部分， 修理系统。增强对这些蛋白质如何识别的理解 某些寡核苷酸序列将有助于生物医学系统的设计 例如，它可以用来调节治疗性基因的表达 蛋白质。由于这个原因，蛋白质-DNA相互作用的研究是一个迅速的 分子生物学日益增长的领域，部分得益于核磁共振和核磁共振的最新进展 X射线结构测定方法。同时，炸药 获得的可用基因组序列信息量的增加 大规模的DNA测序工作产生了对如此庞大的数据量进行调查的需求 基因、操纵子序列和其他蛋白质的新DNA序列数据 结合部位。为了支持这一努力，我们的目标是使用SPR成像 技术作为一种快速有效的筛选序列特异性的方法 蛋白质与大的双链DNA分子阵列的结合 固定在化学修饰的黄金表面。这方面的具体目标 项目将是：(I)制造单链和双链阵列 化学修饰金表面的寡核苷酸序列，(Ii) 演示基于白光的SPR成像系统对 原位监测DNA杂交吸附和蛋白质吸附，(III) 监测T4 DNA对表面结合寡核苷酸的酶促作用 连接酶、核酸外切酶I和各种限制性内切酶，(Iv)监测 大肠杆菌Lac阻遏蛋白与双链阵列的结合 同时模拟野生型和突变的寡核苷酸序列 二重对称Lac算子点，以及(V)研究序列 MutS蛋白结合的特异性(参与 大肠杆菌的甲基定向DNA错配校正系统)对异源双链的影响 具有单碱基错配和1到4个碱基插入。

DESCRIPTION: (adapted from applicant's abstract) The overall aim of this research is to implement surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging methods in the study of protein-DNA interactions. The sequence-specific binding of proteins to DNA plays a pivotal role in the regulation and control of gene expression, replication and recombination. In addition, enzymes that recognize and modify specific sequences are critical components of biological DNA manipulation and repair systems. An enhanced understanding of how these proteins recognize certain oligonucleotide sequences would aid in the design of biomedical systems which could, for example, be used to regulate the expression of therapeutic proteins. For this reason, the study of protein-DNA interactions is a rapidly growing area of molecular biology, aided in part by recent advances in NMR and X-ray structural determination methods. At the same time, the explosive increase in the amount of available genomic sequence information obtained from large scale DNA sequencing efforts creates the need to survey this vast amount of new DNA sequence data for genes, operator sequences and other protein binding sites. In support of this effort, our goal is to use SPR imaging techniques as a rapid and efficient method for screening the sequence-specific binding of proteins to large arrays of double-stranded DNA molecules immobilized at chemically modified gold surfaces. Specific goals of this project will be to: (i) fabricate arrays of single- and double-stranded oligonucleotide sequences to chemically modified gold surfaces, (ii) demonstrate the sensitivity of a white light-based SPR imaging system to monitor in situ both DNA hybridization adsorption and protein adsorption, (iii) monitor the enzymatic manipulation of surface-bound oligonucleotides by T4 DNA ligase, Exonuclease I, and various restriction endonucleases, (iv) monitor the binding of the lac repressor protein of E. coli to arrays of double-stranded oligonucleotide sequences which model both the wild type and mutations of the two-fold symmetric lac operator site, and (v) investigate the sequence specificity of the binding of the protein MutS (which is involved in the methyl-directed DNA mismatch correction system of E. coli) to heteroduplexes with single base mismatches and 1 to 4 base insertions.