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ArticleBiochemistry2016

Thermodynamic Additivity for Impacts of Base-Pair Substitutions on Association of the Egr-1 Zinc-Finger Protein with DNA.

Abhijnan Chattopadhyay, Levani Zandarashvili, Ross H Luu, Junji Iwahara

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Article in Biochemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abhijnan ChattopadhyayDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston, Texas 77555, United States.
Levani ZandarashviliDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston, Texas 77555, United States.
Ross H LuuDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston, Texas 77555, United States.
Junji IwaharaDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston, Texas 77555, United States.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

Target DNA search by zinc-finger proteinsR01GM107590 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI IWAHARA, JUNJI · 2014 to 2017
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107590
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transcription factor Egr-1 specifically binds as a monomer to its 9 bp target DNA sequence, GCGTGGGCG, via three zinc fingers and plays important roles in the brain and cardiovascular systems. Using fluorescence-based competitive binding assays, we systematically analyzed the impacts of all possible single-nucleotide substitutions in the target DNA sequence and determined the change in binding free energy for each. Then, we measured the changes in binding free energy for sequences with multiple substitutions and compared them with the sum of the changes in binding free energy for each constituent single substitution. For the DNA variants with two or three nucleotide substitutions in the target sequence, we found excellent agreement between the measured and predicted changes in binding free energy. Interestingly, however, we found that this thermodynamic additivity broke down with a larger number of substitutions. For DNA sequences with four or more substitutions, the measured changes in binding free energy were significantly larger than predicted. On the basis of these results, we analyzed the occurrences of high-affinity sequences in the genome and found that the genome contains millions of such sequences that might functionally sequester Egr-1.

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ThermodynamicsZinc FingersAlgorithmsBase SequenceBinding, CompetitiveBinding SitesDNAEarly Growth Response Protein 1KineticsModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationPoint MutationProtein BindingProtein DomainsDNAEarly Growth Response Protein 1EGR1 protein, human

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PMID27933778
PMCPMC5175577
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