Wartell R M
Nucleic Acids Res. 1977 Aug;4(8):2779-97. doi: 10.1093/nar/4.8.2779.
Theoretical calculations were made to determine the influence of side specific 'melting' and 'stabilizing' proteins on the thermal stability of nearby base pairs (bp). A DNA sequence 999bp. long containing the 123 bp. lactose operon control region in the center was examined. Melting curves of base pairs near the binding sites of the catabolite activator protein, CAP, the lactose repressor, and RNA polymerase were calculated in the absence and presence of each protein. The empirical loop entropy model of the helix-coil transition of DNA was employed. Calculations show that melting and stabilizing proteins alter the tm of base pairs 20 to 100 bp-away. The magnitude and range of the effect is strongly influenced by the base pair composition and sequence of the protein site and the immediately adjacent DNA regions.
进行了理论计算,以确定侧翼特异性“解链”和“稳定”蛋白对附近碱基对(bp)热稳定性的影响。研究了一个长度为999bp的DNA序列,其中心包含123bp的乳糖操纵子控制区域。在每种蛋白质存在和不存在的情况下,计算了分解代谢物激活蛋白(CAP)、乳糖阻遏物和RNA聚合酶结合位点附近碱基对的解链曲线。采用了DNA螺旋-卷曲转变的经验环熵模型。计算结果表明,解链蛋白和稳定蛋白会改变距离其20至100bp处碱基对的解链温度(tm)。这种效应的大小和范围受到蛋白质结合位点以及紧邻的DNA区域的碱基对组成和序列的强烈影响。