Interaction between the lac operator and the lac repressor headpiece: fluorescence and circular dichroism studies.

AUTOR(ES)

Culard, F

RESUMO

The interaction between the lac repressor headpiece and a small operator DNA fragment has been examined by fluorescence and circular dichroism (c.d.) measurements. Binding of the headpiece to the DNA fragment induces a strong quenching of the fluorescence of its tyrosine residues. Quantitative analysis of the fluorescence data demonstrates that, in a first step, two headpieces bind very strongly to the DNA fragment then weaker binding occurs. C.d. demonstrates that the binding induces conformational changes of the DNA. The c.d. change produced upon binding of the first two headpieces differs from that induced upon binding of two further headpieces . Binding of the second pair of headpieces is similar to non-specific binding to non-operator DNA. The conformation of the operator DNA in the presence of two headpieces differs drastically from that in presence of lac repressor. Addition of the core to the lac operator does not induce any conformational change of the nucleic acids. These results are discussed with respect to the relative roles of core and headpieces in the lac repressor-lac operator interaction.

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