Recognition of DNA by single-chain derivatives of the phage 434 repressor: high affinity binding depends on both the contacted and non-contacted base pairs.
Open Access
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 25 (11) , 2047-2054
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/25.11.2047
Abstract
Single-chain derivatives of the phage 434 repressor, termed single-chain repressors, contain covalently dimerized DNA-binding domains (DBD) which are connected with a peptide linker in a head-to-tail arrangement. The prototype RR69 contains two wild-type DBDs, while RR*69 contains a wild-type and an engineered DBD. In this latter domain, the DNA- contacting amino acids of thealpha3 helix of the 434 repressor are replaced by the corresponding residues of the related P22 repressor. We have used binding site selection, targeted mutagenesis and binding affinity studies to define the optimum DNA recognition sequence for these single-chain proteins. It is shown that RR69 recognizes DNA sequences containing the consensus boxes of the 434 operators in a palindromic arrangement, and that RR*69 optimally binds to non-palindromic sequences containing a 434 operator box and a TTAA box of which the latter is present in most P22 operators. The spacing of these boxes, as in the 434 operators, is 6 bp. The DNA-binding of both single-chain repressors, similar to that of the 434 repressor, is influenced indirectly by the sequence of the non-contacted, spacer region. Thus, high affinity binding is dependent on both direct and indirect recognition. Nonetheless, the single-chain framework can accommodate certain substitutions to obtain altered DNA-binding specificity and RR*69 represents an example for the combination of altered direct and unchanged indirect readout mechanisms.Keywords
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