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Gel-based oligonucleotide microarray approach to analyze protein-ssDNA binding specificity.

ABSTRACT: Gel-based oligonucleotide microarray approach was developed for quantitative profiling of binding affinity of a protein to single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). To demonstrate additional capabilities of this method, we analyzed the binding specificity of ribonuclease (RNase) binase from Bacillus intermedius (EC 3.1.27.3) to ssDNA using generic hexamer oligodeoxyribonucleotide microchip. Single-stranded octamer oligonucleotides were immobilized within 3D hemispherical gel pads. The octanucleotides in individual pads 5'-{N}N(1)N(2)N(3)N(4)N(5)N(6){N}-3' consisted of a fixed hexamer motif N(1)N(2)N(3)N(4)N(5)N(6) in the middle and variable parts {N} at the ends, where {N} represent A, C, G and T in equal proportions. The chip has 4096 pads with a complete set of hexamer sequences. The affinity was determined by measuring dissociation of the RNase-ssDNA complexes with the temperature increasing from 0 degrees C to 50 degrees C in quasi-equilibrium conditions. RNase binase showed the highest sequence-specificity of binding to motifs 5'-NNG(A/T/C)GNN-3' with the order of preference: GAG > GTG > GCG. High specificity towards G(A/T/C)G triplets was also confirmed by measuring fluorescent anisotropy of complexes of binase with selected oligodeoxyribonucleotides in solution. The affinity of RNase binase to other 3-nt sequences was also ranked. These results demonstrate the applicability of the method and provide the ground for further investigations of nonenzymatic functions of RNases.

SUBMITTER: Zasedateleva OA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2425478 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Gel-based oligonucleotide microarray approach to analyze protein-ssDNA binding specificity.

Zasedateleva Olga A OA Mikheikin Andrey L AL Turygin Alexander Y AY Prokopenko Dmitry V DV Chudinov Alexander V AV Belobritskaya Elena E EE Chechetkin Vladimir R VR Zasedatelev Alexander S AS

Nucleic acids research 20080512 10

Gel-based oligonucleotide microarray approach was developed for quantitative profiling of binding affinity of a protein to single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). To demonstrate additional capabilities of this method, we analyzed the binding specificity of ribonuclease (RNase) binase from Bacillus intermedius (EC 3.1.27.3) to ssDNA using generic hexamer oligodeoxyribonucleotide microchip. Single-stranded octamer oligonucleotides were immobilized within 3D hemispherical gel pads. The octanucleotides in indi ...[more]

PMID: 18474529

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Project description:Recognition of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) or single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) is important for many fundamental cellular functions. A variety of single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (ssDBPs) and single-stranded RNA-binding proteins (ssRBPs) have evolved that bind ssDNA and ssRNA, respectively, with varying degree of affinities and specificities to form complexes. Structural studies of these complexes provide key insights into their recognition mechanism. However, computational modeling of the specific recognition process and to predict the structure of the complex is challenging, primarily due to the heterogeneity of their binding energy landscape and the greater flexibility of ssDNA or ssRNA compared with double-stranded nucleic acids. Consequently, considerably fewer computational studies have explored interactions between proteins and single-stranded nucleic acids compared with protein interactions with double-stranded nucleic acids. Here, we report a newly developed energy-based coarse-grained model to predict the structure of ssDNA-ssDBP and ssRNA-ssRBP complexes and to assess their sequence-specific interactions and stabilities. We tuned two factors that can modulate specific recognition: base-aromatic stacking strength and the flexibility of the single-stranded nucleic acid. The model was successfully applied to predict the binding conformations of 12 distinct ssDBP and ssRBP structures with their cognate ssDNA and ssRNA partners having various sequences. Estimated binding energies agreed well with the corresponding experimental binding affinities. Bound conformations from the simulation showed a funnel-shaped binding energy distribution where the native-like conformations corresponded to the energy minima. The various ssDNA-protein and ssRNA-protein complexes differed in the balance of electrostatic and aromatic energies. The lower affinity of the ssRNA-ssRBP complexes compared with the ssDNA-ssDBP complexes stems from lower flexibility of ssRNA compared to ssDNA, which results in higher rate constants for the dissociation of the complex (koff) for complexes involving the former.

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