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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 41, 期 1, 页码 167-181出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1031
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- National Institutes of Health [2R01GM72462, 2R01GM075965]
- Mayo Foundation
- NIH [GM075965]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM072462, R01GM075965] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Eukaryotic High-Mobility Group B (HMGB) proteins alter DNA elasticity while facilitating transcription, replication and DNA repair. We developed a new single-molecule method to probe non-specific DNA interactions for two HMGB homologs: the human HMGB2 box A domain and yeast Nhp6Ap, along with chimeric mutants replacing neutral N-terminal residues of the HMGB2 protein with cationic sequences from Nhp6Ap. Surprisingly, HMGB proteins constrain DNA winding, and this torsional constraint is released over short timescales. These measurements reveal the microscopic dissociation rates of HMGB from DNA. Separate microscopic and macroscopic (or local and non-local) unbinding rates have been previously proposed, but never independently observed. Microscopic dissociation rates for the chimeric mutants (similar to 10 s(-1)) are higher than those observed for wild-type proteins (similar to 0.1-1.0 s(-1)), reflecting their reduced ability to bend DNA through short-range interactions, despite their increased DNA-binding affinity. Therefore, transient local HMGB-DNA contacts dominate the DNA-bending mechanism used by these important architectural proteins to increase DNA flexibility.
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