Nucleic Acids Research, 1986, Vol. 14, No. 8 3573-3585
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Cooperative interaction of histone H1 with DNA
Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
Received November 13, 1985. Revised March 17, 1986. Accepted March 17, 1986.
The cooperative binding of histone H1 with DNA was studied using a fluorescently labelled histone H1. The titration data were analysed in terms of the large ligand model. The stoichiometric number, n = 65 ± 10 bases/H1, was independent of NaCl concentration (0.02 - 0.35 M). The nucleation and the cooperative binding constants, K' and K, and the cooperativity parameter q were sensitive to salt concentration; K = 3.6 + 0.8 x 107 M-1 and q = 1.1 ± 0.4 x 103 at 0.2 M NaCl. The dependence of K' on NaCl concentration revealed that 6 Na+ ions were released from DNA upon complex formation. An extrapolation of K' to 1M NaCl yielded a small value, K1 = 5 + 2 M-1. Thus the binding of H1 is essentially electrostatic, being compatible with its independence of temperature. A calculation of K' based on the counterion release reproduced the salt concentration dependence of K'. Therefore, the binding of H1 is of an electrostatic territorial type. Thus, H1 may move along the DNA chain to a certain extent, when both salt concentration and the degree of saturation are sufficiently low. The condition is so restricted that the sliding would not play an important role in vivo. It was concluded from the DNA concentration independent binding isotherm that H1 can cooperatively bind onto a single DNA molecule. A simple power law dependence of the cooperativity parameter q upon NaCl concentration was found; q
[NaCl]h with h = 0.72, though the physical basis of this dependence remains unknown.
*Present address: Deparment of Medical Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, S-10401 Stockholm
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