HU binding to DNA: evidence for multiple complex formation and DNA bending

Biochemistry
Kristi WojtuszewskiI Mukerji

Abstract

HU, a nonspecific histone-like DNA binding protein, participates in a number of genomic events as an accessory protein and forms multiple complexes with DNA. The HU-DNA binding interaction was characterized by fluorescence, generated with the guanosine analogue 3-methyl-8-(2-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)isoxanthopterin (3-MI) directly incorporated into DNA duplexes. The stoichiometry and equilibrium binding constants of complexes formed between HU and 13 and 34 bp DNA duplexes were determined using fluorescence anisotropy and analytical ultracentrifugation. These measurements reveal that three HU molecules bind to the 34 bp duplexes, while two HU molecules bind to the 13 bp duplex. The data are well described by an independent binding site model, and the association constants for the first binding event for both duplexes are similar (approximately 1 x 10(6) M(-1)), indicating that HU binding affinity is independent of duplex length. Further analysis of the binding curves in terms of a nonspecific binding model is indicative that HU binding to DNA exhibits little to no cooperativity. The fluorescence intensity also increases upon HU binding, consistent with decreased base stacking and increased solvent exposure of the 3-MI fluores...Continue Reading

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