Thermodynamics of DNA target site recognition by homing endonucleases |
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| Authors: | Eastberg Jennifer H McConnell Smith Audrey Zhao Lei Ashworth Justin Shen Betty W Stoddard Barry L |
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| Affiliation: | Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, A3-025 Seattle, WA 98109, USA. |
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The thermodynamic profiles of target site recognition have been surveyed for homing endonucleases from various structural families. Similar to DNA-binding proteins that recognize shorter target sites, homing endonucleases display a narrow range of binding free energies and affinities, mediated by structural interactions that balance the magnitude of enthalpic and entropic forces. While the balance of ΔH and TΔS are not strongly correlated with the overall extent of DNA bending, unfavorable ΔHbinding is associated with unstacking of individual base steps in the target site. The effects of deleterious basepair substitutions in the optimal target sites of two LAGLIDADG homing endonucleases, and the subsequent effect of redesigning one of those endonucleases to accommodate that DNA sequence change, were also measured. The substitution of base-specific hydrogen bonds in a wild-type endonuclease/DNA complex with hydrophobic van der Waals contacts in a redesigned complex reduced the ability to discriminate between sites, due to nonspecific ΔSbinding. |
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