Selection and design of high affinity DNA ligands for mutant single-chain derivatives of the bacteriophage 434 repressor

Science in China. Series C, Life Sciences
T LiangAndrás Simoncsits

Abstract

Single-chain repressor RR(Tres) is a derivative of bacteriophage 434 repressor, which contains covalently dimerized DNA-binding domains (amino acids 1-69) of the phage 434 repressor. In this single-chain molecule, the wild type domain R is connected to the mutant domain R(TRES) by a recombinant linker in a head-to-tail arrangement. The DNA-contacting amino acids of R(TRES) at the -1, 1, 2, and 5 positions of the a3 helix are T, R, E, S respectively. By using a randomized DNA pool containing the central sequence -CATACAAGAAAGNNNNNNTTT-, a cyclic,in vitro DNA-binding site selection was performed. The selected population was cloned and the individual members were characterized by determining their binding affinities to RR(Tres) The results showed that the optimal operators contained the TTAC or TTCC sequences in the underlined positions as above, and that the Kd values were in the 1 x 10(-12) mol/L-1 x 10(11) mol/L concentration range. Since the affinity of the natural 434 repressor to its natural operator sites is in the 1 x 10(-9) mol/L range, the observed binding affinity increase is remarkable. It was also found that binding affinity was strongly affected by the flanking bases of the optimal tetramer binding sites, especially ...Continue Reading

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