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Spectroscopic studies on histone-DNA interactions. I. The interaction of histone (H2A, H2B) dimer with DNA: DNA sequence dependence.

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:Binding of the histone (H2A, H2B) dimer with chicken erythrocyte DNA has been studied by salt-titration spectroscopy in equilibrium conditions. The circular dichroism of DNA near 275 nm is depressed by the interaction with (H2A, H2B) at low concentrations of salt. The depression increases with increasing amounts of (H2A, H2B), and reaches a plateau at an (H2A, H2B) to DNA ratio of 1.5 (w/w), at which one (H2A, H2B) dimer occupies 28 base-pairs of DNA. The fluorescence emission intensity of the tyrosine residues in (H2A, H2B) is depressed by the H2A, H2B)-DNA interaction. When the DNA-(H2A, H2B) complex is titrated with NaCl, these two signals show transitions with increasing ionic strength of the buffer, whose normalized transition curves agree well. The midpoint of the transition is about 0.42 M-NaCl for a sample with a DNA concentration of 0.05 mg/ml and an (H2A, H2B) to DNA ratio of 0.4 (w/w). The fluorescence titration curves have been analyzed to obtain the binding constant for the (H2A, H2B) dimer with DNA. The sample concentration dependence of the titration profiles is consistent with the model of non-cooperative binding of (H2A, H2B) dimer to DNA. The titration profiles are reversible. The obtained binding constant for the (H2A, H2B) dimer with chicken erythrocyte DNA at 20 degrees C (pH 7.6), as a function of the ionic strength, I, is as follows: log10K = -14.9 log10(I)-1.2. The change of enthalpy delta H accompanied by the binding of the (H2A, H2B) dimer is nearly equal to zero, within an error of +/- 1.4 kcal/mol (1 cal = 4.184 J). DNA sequence dependence of the stability of DNA-(H2A, H2B) interactions is observed using reconstituted materials of synthetic DNAs. A decreasing stability of the interaction is observed following the order: the duplex of poly[(dA)-(dT)] greater than chicken erythrocyte DNA or the copolymer duplex of poly(dA).poly(dT) greater than the duplex of poly[(dG)-(dC)]. The difference in free energy of the association of the (H2A,H2B) dimer between the two copolymers is 0.8 kcal/mol.

journal_name

J Mol Biol

journal_title

Journal of molecular biology

authors

Oohara I,Wada A

doi

10.1016/0022-2836(87)90699-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-07-20 00:00:00

pages

389-97

issue

eissn

0022-2836

issn

1089-8638

pii

0022-2836(87)90699-1

journal_volume

196

pub_type

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Spectroscopic studies on histone-DNA interactions. I. The interaction of histone (H2A, H2B) dimer with DNA: DNA sequence dependence.