... Preferential binding of different pyrimidine-based oligonucleotides to Bc-Csp It has been shown that homologous Bs-CspB has a general binding preference for polypyrimidines over polypurines, and its binding ... CT5) the decrease in affinity was significantly stronger: When C was introduced at these positions the KD increased 93- or 11-fold By contrast, at position (Table 2, CT2, CT3) C was preferred slightly ... nucleobase interaction subsites suggest that both Bc-Csp and Bs-CspB share identical ligand -binding interfaces (Fig 8), whereas differences in binding involving subsites and 7, as well as the...
... the serum, binding was performed in the presence or absence of the preimmune serum Again, an increase of binding was observed; however, as expected, this was mainly due to an increase of the ... Previously, ERRc was reported to bind as a monomer to DNA [28] However, a recent report assumes that ERRc binds also as a dimer to DNA [35] For ERRa and ERRb, monomeric and dimeric binding has been demonstrated ... repeat with a spacing of three base pairs, the classical estrogen response element DNAbinding of C-terminal deletion mutants Fig ERRc binds as a homodimer to DNABinding of the full-length ERRc...
... DNA pull-down assay to measure nuclear receptor DNAbinding in solution BioTechniques 45, 445–448 Galas D & Schmitz A (1978) DNAse footprinting: a simple method for the detection of protein DNA ... amounts of radioactive and other waste Recently, Iwasaki et al [7] described a A B EMSA HSE liquid chemiluminescent DNA pull-down assay The method measures DNAbinding of transcription factors, ... These experiments thus confirm that the assay specifically measures HSF1 DNA- binding activity Analytical range and precision The analytical range of the assay was evaluated using known concentrations...
... p53 sequence-nonspecific DNAbinding due to DNA cis-platination was observed [33–36] On the other hand, the same DNA treatment resulted in inhibition of p53 sequence-specific binding [31,32] An analogous ... individual p53DBSs at the same degree of global DNA cis-platination differed significantly The steepest decrease in p53 DNAbinding with degree of DNA modification was exhibited by the mdm2 target The R53 ... and 53% of the p53 -binding capacity at rb ¼ 0.02, respectively (Fig 3A) Increasing the DNA modification degree to rb ¼ 0.04 resulted in a decrease of p53–p21 binding to 42%, whereas the PGM1 site...
... (v ⁄ v) glycerol, and the flow rate was 0.5 mLÆmin)1 CD measurements DNAs The /X174 phage ssDNA and dsDNA used in the DNAbinding and ATPase assays were purchased from New England Biolabs (Ipswich, ... of ssDNA or dsDNA In the ssDNA-dependent reaction, the /X174 circular ssDNA (20 lm) was used as a substrate In the dsDNA-dependent reaction, the /X174 RF I DNA (20 lm) (supercoiled dsDNA) was used ... exhibit DNA- dependent ATPase activity (Fig 2E) Neither ssDNA nor dsDNA induced the ATPase activity of Rad51-Y232A, while the ATPase activity of HsRad51 was stimulated by ssDNA and dsDNA (Fig...
... nanosecond ash lamp nF 900 from Edinburgh Instruments was used as a light source (e) In the case of anisotropy measurements, (f) Glan Thompson prism polarizers were also used All measurements ... transfer measurements In the CRPW13F(cAMP)2 complex, the concentration of cAMP was 200 lM, whereas in the case of CRPW13F(cAMP)4 the concentration of cAMP was mM The molar ratio CRP to DNA in the ... uorescence intensity, increasing it by % 3.4% A pronounced increase in the Trp85 uorescence intensity was ể FEBS 2003 Conformational changes induced by cAMP and DNAbinding to CRP (Eur J Biochem...
... hexamers, as indicated Measurement of nucleotide binding Mant-ADP, a fluorescent nucleotide analog, was purchased from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA, USA) Nucleotide binding was detected as described ... stearothermophilus was purchased from Unitika (Tokyo, Japan), a-glucosidase from B stearothermophilus, a-casein, and j-casein from Sigma (St Louis, MO, USA), and rabbit pyruvate kinase and hog lactate ... All measurements were performed at 55 °C Fluorescence measurements were performed with a FP-6500 fluorometer (Jasco, Tokyo, Japan) The excita- Measurement of threading activity FITC was purchased...
... the unbound fraction was subsequently measured A one-site binding model was fitted to the binding isotherm (Fig 5), resulting in a Kd value of 36 ± 6.8 mgÆmL)1 and maximum binding capacity (Bmax) ... several different CBM families, and starch and ⁄ or a-glucan binding has been demonstrated in a number of cases [20–26] Starch binding in the plastidial system is influenced by potential regulatory mechanisms ... representatives of the two classes of enzyme carrying CBM45-type domains, the Solanum tuberosum a-glucan, water dikinase (StGWD) and the A thaliana plastidial a-amylase (AtAMY3), suggesting that...
... Mg2+-dependent DNAbinding activity of Mhr1, as Mg2+ increased the DNAbinding activity of Mhr1 The enhanced DNA- binding activity could be due to the shielding of negative charges around the Mhr1 DNA interface ... compilation ª 2010 FEBS T Masuda et al DNA- binding sites of Mhr1 Table DNA- binding activity of the Mhr1 variants N, DNA- binding activity is comparable to that of the wild type; +, DNA- binding activity ... defects in DNAbinding (Fig 5A), although their DNA- binding activities were not completely lost We also examined the DNA- binding activity of Mhr1 in the absence of Mg2+, because the DNAbinding activities...
... of O DNA by Taq polymerase using pSAU1201 DNA or /11 DNAas a template and the oligonucleotides pHC1 and labeled pHC2 as primers The resulting DNA fragment was purified from an agarose gel DNase ... Synthesis of O1 DNA Synthesis of O2 and O1O2 DNAs Synthesis of O2 DNA Synthesis of O3 DNA Synthesis of O3 DNA Synthesis of S aureus cspC DNA Synthesis of S aureus cspC DNA (Fig 2A) was synthesized ... DNA was also treated directly with DMS as above in the absence of CI and the recovered DNA was used as a control The gunaine-specific ladder DNAs, prepared from both control and experimental DNAs...
... activator -binding domains The in vivo validation of the Swi1 and Snf5 activator -binding domains is also of interest in relation to the twostep binding mechanism between Gal4 and Swi1 that has been ... genes as well as GAL genes that have little or no requirement for SWI ⁄ SNF SWI ⁄ SNF dependence was associated with a class of highly inducible GAL genes (GAL1, GAL10, GAL2 and GAL7), whereas genes ... The existence of two activator -binding domains might be an adaptation to the fact that activators generally bind DNAas dimers, with the result that two activation domains are available to recruit...
... exact DNA- binding site(s) within up-furS1 and up-hbpS1, DNaseI footprinting experiTable Relative binding affinity of wild-type and mutated SenR proteins for 32P-labeled DNA- fragments EMSAs were ... helix–turn–helix DNA- bindingdomains of SenR and ChrA share 61% amino acid identity (data not shown) The designed SenRD60 and SenRD65A proteins showed reduced DNA- binding affinity for up-furS as well as for ... plasmids pWKB1 [16] and pQS1H199A were used asDNA templates Each PCR product was digested with EcoRI and PstI and ligated with EcoRI–PstIdigested pASK-IBA7 The resulting construct pASKS2 or pASKS2H199A...
... the QIAfilter plasmid Giga kit (Qiagen) The plasmid DNA was cut by BamHI and EcoRI, phenol/chloroform extracted and precipitated After washing with 70% ethanol, the DNA pellet was dissolved in ... Protocol #PT2040-1) as well as the fluorescence intensity at 526 nm when excited at 514 nm The concentration of TBP was determined by Bradford assay (Bio-Rad) The concentration of DNA was determined ... This change was not observed when CYIIB was mixed with TBP alone or with DNA alone Furthermore, when TBP–AdML was added to a : mixture of ECFP– TFIIB and EYFP (Fig 3B), no ratio change was observed...
... protein kinase, protein kinase C and casein kinase II [36–42] The activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase or protein kinase C can inhibit muscle differentiation, whereas casein kinase II stimulates ... mimicking mutants As shown in Fig 8C, dHAND-Asp-X and -Asp almost lost their DNAbinding activity These results indicated that the phosphorylation of Thr102, Thr112, and Ser114 inhibited DNAbinding activity ... dHAND and reporter plasmid containing the luciferase gene, whose expression was driven by five Gal4 binding sites, were transfected to C2C12 cells, and luciferase assay was performed Fold activation...
... behaved like the wildtype operator as far as the UAS C-1 region was concerned (Fig 4) Binding to the UAS C-2 region (in which the mutations had been placed), was impaired both at the 3¢ end of ... (B) DNaseI footprinting analysis of CBP–HbpR and CBP–DA-HbpR binding to the UASs C-1 ⁄ C-2 region A 229 bp 32P-end-labelled fragment containing the UAS C-1 ⁄ C-2 was incubated with increasing ... shift assays (EMSAs) with mutated operator fragments and calmodulin -binding protein (CBP)–HbpR, and representation of the calculation of the half -binding concentration (A) EMSAs performed with DNA...
... D-TERM DNAs As shown in Figs D-TERM DNA specifically 1134 V Camasamudram et al (Eur J Biochem 270) Ó FEBS 2003 Fig Protein binding specificity and protein contact sites of the D-Term DNA (A) DNAse ... are important for protein binding to D-TERM DNA The binding specificity of D-TERM DNA and also the possible protein DNA contact sites were further investigated using DNAse1 footprinting and methylation ... proteins binding to the D-TERM DNA sequence UV-induced DNA cross-linking was carried out to investigate the size and complexity of mt proteins binding to the D-TERM DNA 32P-labelled photo-sensitive DNA...
... facilitating DNAbinding In this protein, a certain degree of plasticity is also shown by the DNA- binding helices a1, which, in their central part, partially lose secondary structure, as indicated ... N-terminal DBD has a role in domain stability and DNAbinding [21] FEBS Journal 274 (2007) 2385–2395 ª 2007 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2007 FEBS 2387 Papillomavirus E2 DNA- binding domain ... connecting helix a2 and strand b4 This residue may have a role in DNA binding, as a single mutation of Lys349 to alanine weakens the DNAbinding of the HPV-16 E2 C-terminal domain by 1.0 kcalÆmol)1...
... nucleotide -binding domains (NBDs) of MRP1, and in search of a putative interaction of these NBDs with allocrites, we have overproduced these domainsas glutathione-S-transferase or maltose binding ... Cloning of the nucleotide -binding domains of MRP DNA coding for the first nucleotide -binding domain (NBD1) of human MRP1 (residues Lys614–Lys959) was amplified by PCR from plasmid pJ3W (kindly donated ... X-100] was added After on ice, 75 lL of 34% (w/v) citric acid was added, and the plate was incubated for 30 at room temperature Subsequently, the D650 was measured in an ELISA plate reader As a...
... own DNAbinding domain can form heterodimers in vivo Yeast cells cotransfected with plasmids expressing these fragment types in the form of fusion proteins with GAL4 activation and DNAbinding domains, ... proteins as used for the two-hybrid experiments, employing [3H] ponasterone A as a probe Extract of yeast cells expressing only GBD–USP(172–508) did not bind [3H]ponasterone A as its binding level ... lacking their DNAbindingdomains are able to heterodimerize in vivo as well as in vitro This heterodimerization obviously did not depend on a coordinated binding to a bipartite motif in DNA Thus,...