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ArticleBiopolymers2013

Weak operator binding enhances simulated Lac repressor-mediated DNA looping.

Andrew V Colasanti, Michael A Grosner, Pamela J Perez, Nicolas Clauvelin, Xiang-Jun Lu, Wilma K Olson

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Article in Biopolymers, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. DNA topology confers sequence specificity to nonspecific architectural proteins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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  7. What controls DNA looping?International journal of molecular sciences · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew V ColasantiDepartment of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, 08854.
Michael A Grosner
Pamela J Perez
Nicolas Clauvelin
Xiang-Jun Lu
Wilma K Olson
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

THEORETICFAL ASPECTS OF DNA SUPERCOILINGR01GM034809 · NIGMS · RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK · PI OLSON, WILMA K · 1985 to 2019
$4.6M
Continued Development and Maintenance of the 3DNA Suite of ProgramsR01GM096889 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI LU, XIANG-JUN · 2011 to 2019
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM096889NIGMS NIH HHS GM34809NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM034809NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM096889
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 50th anniversary of Biopolymers coincides closely with the like celebration of the discovery of the Escherichia coli (lac) lactose operon, a classic genetic system long used to illustrate the influence of biomolecular structure on function. The looping of DNA induced by the binding of the Lac repressor protein to sequentially distant operator sites on DNA continues to serve as a paradigm for understanding long-range genomic communication. Advances in analyses of DNA structures and in incorporation of proteins in computer simulations of DNA looping allow us to address long-standing questions about the role of protein-mediated DNA loop formation in transcriptional control. Here we report insights gained from studies of the sequence-dependent contributions of the natural lac operators to Lac repressor-mediated DNA looping. Novel superposition of the ensembles of protein-bound operator structures derived from NMR measurements reveals variations in DNA folding missed in conventional structural alignments. The changes in folding affect the predicted ease with which the repressor induces loop formation and the ways that DNA closes between the protein headpieces. The peeling of the auxiliary operators away from the repressor enhances the formation of loops with the 92-bp wildtype spacing and hints of a structural reason behind their weak binding.

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Lac RepressorsNucleic Acid ConformationDNADNA, BacterialLac OperonRepressor ProteinsDNADNA, BacterialLac RepressorsRepressor Proteinscomputer simulationDNA loopingJ factorlac operonLac repressor

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PMID23818216
PMCPMC3788042
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