Thermodynamics of HMGB1 Interaction with Duplex DNA
- 1 August 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 40 (34), 10254-10261
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi0100900
Abstract
The high mobility group protein HMGB1 is a small, highly abundant protein that binds to DNA in a non-sequence-specific manner. HMGB1 consists of 2 DNA binding domains, the HMG boxes A and B, followed by a short basic region and a continuous stretch of 30 glutamate or aspartate residues. Isothermal titration calorimetry was used to characterize the binding of HMGB1 to the double-stranded model DNAs poly(dAdT)·(dTdA) and poly(dGdC)·(dCdG). To elucidate the contribution of the different structural motifs to DNA binding, calorimetric measurements were performed comparing the single boxes A and B, the two boxes plus or minus the basic sequence stretch (ABbt and AB), and the full-length HMGB1 protein. Thermodynamically, binding of HMGB1 and all truncated constructs to duplex DNA was characterized by a positive enthalpy change at 15 °C. From the slopes of the temperature dependence of the binding enthalpies, heat capacity changes of −0.129 ± 0.02 and −0.105 ± 0.05 kcal mol-1 K-1 were determined for box A and full-length HMGB1, respectively. Significant differences in the binding characteristics were observed using full-length HMGB1, suggesting an important role for the acid tail in modulating DNA binding. Moreover, full-length HMGB1 binds differently these two DNA templates: binding to poly(dAdT)·(dTdA) was cooperative, had a larger apparent binding site size, and proceeded with a much larger unfavorable binding enthalpy than binding to poly(dGdC)·(dCdG).Keywords
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