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Nucleic Acids Research, 1990, Vol. 18, No. 13 3731-3737
© 1990

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Molecular modelling study of changes induced by netropsin binding to nucleosome core particles

Juan J. Pérez and José Portugal1,*

Departamento de Ingenieria Química, ETSIIB, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 1Departamento de Bioquimica y Fisiología, Universidad de Barcelona, Facultad de Quimica Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received April 19, 1990. Revised June 7, 1990. Accepted June 7, 1990.

It is well known that certain sequence-dependent moduladors in structure appear to determine the rotational positioning of DNA on the nucleosome core particle. That preference is rather weak and could be modified by some ligands as netropsin, a minor-groove binding antibiotic. We have undertaken a molecular modelling approach to calculate the relative energy of interaction between a DNA molecule and the protein core particle. The histones particle is considered as a distribution of positive charges on the protein surface that interacts with the DNA molecule. The molecular electrostatic potentials for the DNA, simulated as a discontinuous cylinder, were calculated using the values for all the base pairs. Computing these parameters, we calculated the relative energy of interaction and the more stable rotational setting of DNA. The binding of four molecules of netropsin to this model showed that a new minimum of energy is obtained when the DNA turns toward the protein surface by about 180°, so a new energetically favoured structure appears where netropsin binding sites are located facing toward the histones surface. The effect of netropsin could be explained in terms of an induced change in the phasing of DNA on the core particle. The induced rotation is considered to optimize non-bonded contacts between the netropsin molecules and the DNA backbone.


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