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Enthalpic and entropic effects of salt and polyol osmolytes on site-specific protein-DNA association: the integrase Tn916-DNA complex.

Abstract：

:The effect of low molecular-weight compounds on the equilibrium constant K(A) can be used to explore the energetics and molecular mechanism of protein-DNA interactions. Here we use the complex composed of the integrase Tn916 DNA-binding domain and its target DNA duplex to investigate the effects of salt and the nonionic osmolytes glycerol and sorbitol on sequence-specific protein-DNA association. Increasing Na(+) concentration from 0.12 to 0.32 M weakens the binding affinity by a factor of 20. The decrease of affinity is dominated by a large loss of binding enthalpy but only a small loss of binding entropy. This contrasts the concept that the salt-induced weakening of protein-DNA binding is mainly entropic. The large enthalpy loss is discussed in the light of recent views about the nature of the general salt effect. Addition of up to 2.5 M sorbitol and up to 3.3 M glycerol causes a slight increase of the binding affinity. However, both osmolytes lead to a large enthalpy gain and a similarly large entropy loss. This intriguing enthalpy-entropy compensation can be explained in part by an enthalpic chelate effect: The osmolyte tightens the structure of the protein-DNA complex whereby the formation of enthalpically favorable noncovalent interactions is promoted at the entropic cost of a more rigid complex. The results were obtained by isothermal titration calorimetry. They are supported by kinetic experiments showing that the rate of formation of the complex is reduced by salt, but the rate of complex dissociation is not. Glycerol and sorbitol reduce both rates in line with an only small effect on complex stability. This work clarifies the thermodynamic and kinetic response of a novel protein-DNA complex to increased salt and the presence of two common, nonionic osmolytes.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Milev S,Bosshard HR,Jelesarov I

doi

10.1021/bi048907n

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-01-11 00:00:00

pages

285-93

issue

1

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

journal_volume

44

pub_type

杂志文章

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