PMID:9680479

Citation	Zou, Y, Bassett, H, Walker, R, Bishop, A, Amin, S, Geacintov, NE and Van Houten, B (1998) Hydrophobic forces dominate the thermodynamic characteristics of UvrA-DNA damage interactions. J. Mol. Biol. 281:107-19
Abstract	The Escherichia coli DNA repair proteins UvrA, UvrB and UvrC work together to recognize and incise DNA damage during the process of nucleotide excision repair (NER). To gain an understanding of the damage recognition properties of UvrA, we have used fluorescence spectroscopy to study the thermodynamics of its interaction with a defined DNA substrate containing a benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE) adduct. Oligonucleotides containing a single site-specifically modified N2-guanine (+)-trans-, (-)-trans-, (+)-cis-, or (-)-cis-BPDE adducts were ligated into 50-base-pair DNA fragments. All four stereoisomers of DNA-BPDE adducts show an excitation maximum at 350 nm and an emission maximum around 380 to 385 nm. Binding of UvrA to the BPDE-DNA adducts results in a five to sevenfold fluorescence enhancement. Titration of the BPDE-adducted DNA with UvrA was used to generate binding isotherms. The equilibrium dissociation constants for UvrA binding to (+)-trans-, (-)-trans-, (+)-cis-, and (-)-cis- BPDE adduct were: 7.4+/-1.9, 15. 8+/-5.4, 11.3+/-2.7 and 22.4+/-2.0 nM, respectively. There was a large negative change in heat capacity DeltaCpo,obs, (-3.3 kcal mol-1 K-1) accompanied by a relatively unchanged DeltaGoobs with temperature. Furthermore, varying the concentration of KCl showed that the number of ions released upon formation of UvrA-DNA complex is about 3.4, a relatively small value compared to the contact size of UvrA with the substrate. These data suggest that hydrophobic interactions are an important driving force for UvrA binding to BPDE-damaged DNA.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1006/jmbi.1998.1903
Keywords	7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide/chemistry; 7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide/metabolism; Adenosine Triphosphatases/chemistry; Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Binding Sites; DNA Adducts/chemistry; DNA Adducts/metabolism; DNA Damage; DNA Repair; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins; Potassium Chloride; Protein Binding; Spectrometry, Fluorescence; Stereoisomerism; Temperature; Thermodynamics
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