Wehling K, Arfmann H A, Standke K H, Wagner K G
Nucleic Acids Res. 1975 Jun;2(6):799-807. doi: 10.1093/nar/2.6.799.
An approach is described for evaluation of the specificity of basic polypeptides concerning the base pair composition of DNA. The polypeptides were covalently bound to CNBr activated agarose and two DNAs strongly different in base composition but of equal molecular weight were loaded and detached by a NaCl gradient. The difference in the NaCl concerntrations between the elution maxima of the two DNAs was taken as a measure for the recognition specificity. The results obtained confirmed the known AT- und GC-specificity of polylysine and polyarginine, respectively. Neutral residues incorporated into polylysine generally reduce the interaction affinity and also the AT-specificity of their host. This behavior is very pronounced with three homogeneous fractions of clupeine containing about one third of neutral aliphatic amino acids within clusters of arginine; the base pair specificity of these arginine copolymers was found to be practically nil.
本文描述了一种评估碱性多肽与DNA碱基对组成特异性的方法。将多肽共价结合到溴化氰活化的琼脂糖上,加载两种碱基组成差异很大但分子量相等的DNA,并通过NaCl梯度使其分离。将两种DNA洗脱峰最大值之间的NaCl浓度差异作为识别特异性的指标。所得结果分别证实了聚赖氨酸和聚精氨酸已知的AT特异性和GC特异性。掺入聚赖氨酸中的中性残基通常会降低其相互作用亲和力及其宿主的AT特异性。这种行为在三种鲱精蛋白均一馏分中非常明显,这些馏分在精氨酸簇中含有约三分之一的中性脂肪族氨基酸;发现这些精氨酸共聚物的碱基对特异性几乎为零。