Nucleic Acids Research, 1994, Vol. 22, No. 5 742-748
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Adenovirus DNA binding protein: helix destabilising properties
School of Biological and Medical Sciences, Irvine Building, University of St Andrews Fife KY16 9AL, UK
*To whom correspondence should be addressed
Received December 22, 1993. Revised February 7, 1994. Accepted February 7, 1994.
Adenovirus DNA binding protein is a multifunctional protein essential for viral DNA replication. To investigate the role of the DNA binding protein in this process Its interaction with partial DNA duplexes was examined. Duplex regions of DNA, created when a short DNA strand is annealed to Its complementary sequence present In the single stranded form of M13 phage DNA, were efficiently unwound by DNA binding protein In a reaction that required neither ATP nor MgCl2. The unwinding activity of DNA binding protein was reduced by conditions which increased the stability of DNA duplexes. DNA unwinding by DNA binding protein was highly co-operative and required the single stranded DNA to be completely coated with the protein. Completely double stranded DNA could also be unwound by DNA binding protein but this reaction was sensitive to the G + C content of the DNA and could only be observed with relatively short DNA duplexes up to 45 base pairs in length. When these short double stranded DNA molecules contained binding sites for the transcription factors NFI and NFIII addition of the cognate factor blocked DNA binding protein mediated unwinding of that particular DNA duplex. Cleavage of DNA binding protein with chymotrypsin and isolation of the 39, 000 molecular weight C-terminal fragment Indicated that the unwinding activity was located in this domain of the protein. In support of this contention a monoclonal antibody, which had previously been mapped to this region, specifically inhibited the DNA unwinding activity. These activities of DNA binding protein are likely to be involved in DNA replication, where the destablllsatlon of DNA duplexes could be Important both during initiation and elongation.
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