Sequence-specific DNA-binding dominated by dehydration.

AUTOR(ES)

Lundbäck, T

RESUMO

Fluorescence spectroscopy and isothermal titration calorimetry were used to study the thermodynamics of binding of the glucocorticoid receptor DNA-binding domain to four different, but similar, DNA-binding sites. The binding sites are two naturally occurring sites that differ in the composition of one base pair, i.e., an A-T to G-C mutation, and two sites containing chemical intermediates of these base pairs. The calorimetrically determined heat capacity change (Delta C(p)o(obs)) for glucocorticoid receptor DNA-binding domain binding agrees with that calculated for dehydration of solvent-accessible surface areas. A dominating effect of dehydration or solvent reorganization on the thermodynamics is also consistent with an observed linear relationship between observed enthalpy change (Delta Ho(obs)) and observed entropy change (Delta So(obs)) with a slope close to the experimental temperature. Comparisons with structural data allow us to rationalize individual differences between Delta Ho(obs) (and Delta So(obs)) for the four complexes. For instance, we find that the removal of a methyl group at the DNA-protein interface is enthalpically favorable but entropically unfavorable, which is consistent with a replacement by an ordered water molecule.

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