Abstract:
:Integration Host Factor (IHF) is a heterodimeric site-specific nucleoid-associated protein (NAP), well known for its DNA bending ability. Although the IHF induced bending states of DNA have been captured by both X-ray Crystallography and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), the range of flexibility and degree of heterogeneity in terms of quantitative analysis of the nucleoprotein complex has largely remained unexplored. Binding of IHF leads to introduction of two kinks in the dsDNA that allowed us to come up with a quadrilateral model. The findings have further been extended by calculating the angles of flexibility, that gives the idea of the degree of dynamicity of the nucleoprotein complex. We have monitored and compared the trajectories of the conformational dynamics of a dsDNA upon binding of wild-type (wt) and single-chain (sc) IHF at millisecond resolution through single-molecule FRET (smFRET). Our findings reveal that the nucleoprotein complex exists in a 'Slacked-Dynamic' state throughout the observation window where many of them have switched between multiple 'Wobbling States' in the course of attainment of packaged form. This study opens up an opportunity to improve the understanding of the functions of other nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) by complementing the previous detailed atomic-level structural analysis, which eventually will allow accessibility towards a better hypothesis.
journal_name
Int J Biol Macromoljournal_title
International journal of biological macromoleculesauthors
Purkait D,Bandyopadhyay D,Mishra PPdoi
10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.12.194subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2021-01-05 00:00:00pages
100-111eissn
0141-8130issn
1879-0003pii
S0141-8130(20)35374-5journal_volume
171pub_type
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