Preferential protection of the minor groove of non-operator DNA by lac repressor against methylation by dimethyl sulphate.
AUTOR(ES)
Kolchinsky, A M
RESUMO
The binding of lactose repressor to non-operator DNA was studied by the modification of several DNA's, including glycosylated DNA, with dimethyl sulphate, which affects the minor and major grooves of DNA and single stranded DNA regions. The non-specific binding of the repressor to DNA protected the minor groove but apparently not the major groove of the DNA double helix against methylation and did not increase the content of single stranded DNA regions. This suggests that the repressor on binding to non-operator DNA makes contacts mainly in the minor groove of DNA and does not uncoil the DNA double helix. This is different from the interaction of the repressor with lactose operator DNA which occurs, as shown by Gilbert et al. (1), along both the major and the minor groove.
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