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Transition between different binding modes in rat DNA polymerase beta-ssDNA complexes.

Abstract：

:Interactions of rat DNA polymerase beta with a single-stranded (ss) DNA have been studied using the quantitative fluorescence titration technique. Examination of the fluorescence changes accompanying the binding, as a function of the thermodynamically rigorous binding density of rat pol beta-ssDNA complexes, reveals the existence of two binding phases. In the first high affinity phase, rat pol beta forms a complex with the ssDNA in which 16 nucleotides are occluded by the enzyme. In the second low affinity phase, a transition to a complex where the polymerase occludes only five nucleotides occurs. Thus, the data show that rat pol beta binds the ssDNA in two binding modes which differ in the number of occluded nucleotides. We designate the first complex as the (pol beta)16 binding mode and the second as the (pol beta)5 binding mode. The formation of the (pol beta)16 and (pol beta)5 modes has been fully confirmed in experiments with short ssDNA oligomers, a 16mer which can form either the (pol beta)16 or the (pol beta)5 mode, and a 10mer which can form only the (pol beta)5 mode. Binding of rat pol beta to the ssDNA has been analyzed using a statistical thermodynamic model which accounts for the existence of the two binding modes, cooperative interactions, and the overlap of potential binding sites. The results indicate that the 8 kDa domain of the enzyme is involved in ssDNA binding in both modes. Binding studies show that an isolated 8 kDa domain has the same intrinsic affinity for the ssDNA as the entire intact enzyme in its (pol beta)5 mode. However, the site size of the 8 kDa domain-ssDNA complex is ten nucleotides, suggesting that the formation of the (pol beta)5 mode is accompanied by a significant conformational transition of the intact protein. A higher intrinsic affinity, a higher net number of ions released, and a lower fluorescence change accompanying the formation of the (pol beta)16 than the (pol beta)5 mode indicate that the 31 kDa catalytic domain of the enzyme interacts with the ssDNA only in the (pol beta)16 mode. The significance of these results for understanding the functioning of rat pol beta in the DNA metabolism is discussed.

journal_name

J Mol Biol

journal_title

Journal of molecular biology

authors

Jezewska MJ,Rajendran S,Bujalowski W

doi

10.1006/jmbi.1998.2252

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-12-11 00:00:00

pages

1113-31

issue

eissn

0022-2836

issn

1089-8638

pii

S0022-2836(98)92252-5

journal_volume

284

pub_type

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Transition between different binding modes in rat DNA polymerase beta-ssDNA complexes.