Specific Dna Binding by the Homeodomain Nkx2.5(C56s): Detection of Impaired Dna or Unfolded Protein by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry.
From: Section on Protein Chemistry, Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-8012, USA.
Proteins
- Publish Date: Jul 2006
- ISSN: 1097-0134
- Volume: 64
- Issue: 1
- Pages: 13-8
- Medium: Internet
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Fodor Elfrieda, Ginsburg Ann, et al. Specific Dna Binding by the Homeodomain Nkx2.5(C56s): Detection of Impaired Dna or Unfolded Protein by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry.. Proteins Jul 2006;64:13-8
Abstract
Titrations of specific 18-bp duplex DNA with the cardiac-specific homeodomain Nkx2.5(C56S) have utilized an ultrasensitive isothermal titration calorimeter (ITC). As the free DNA nears depletion, we observe large apparent decreases in the binding enthalpy when the DNA is impaired or when the temperature is sufficiently high to produce some unfolding of the free protein. Either effect can be attributed to refolding of the biopolymer that occurs as a result of stabilization due to the large favorable change in free energy on the homeodomain binding to DNA (-49.4 kJ/mol at 298 K). In either case, thermodynamic parameters obtained in such ITC experiments are unreliable. By using a lower temperature (85 vs. 95 degrees C) during the annealing of complementary DNA strands, damage of the 18-bp duplex DNA (T(m) = 72 degrees C) is avoided, and titrations with the homeodomain are normal at temperatures from 10 to 40 degrees C when >95% of the protein is folded. Under the latter conditions, the heat capacity plot is linear with a DeltaC(p) value of -0.80 +/- 0.03 kJ K(-1) mol(-1), which is more negative than that calculated from the burial of solvent accessible surface areas (-0.64 +/- 0.05 kJ K(-1) mol(-1)), consistent with water structures being at the protein-DNA interfaces.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Binding Sites, Calorimetry, Calorimetry, Differential Scanning, DNA, Homeodomain Proteins, Kinetics, Mice, Nucleic Acid Denaturation, Protein Folding
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