title: Comparison of DNA-binding properties between BTEB and Sp1.
abstract: We have expressed truncated forms of BTEB and Sp1 in Escherichia coli and investigated the DNA-binding properties of the two proteins. The two proteins as well as their chimeric proteins protected the same DNA region in the BTE sequence (a GC box in the P-4501A1 gene) as examined by ortho-phenanthroline-Cu footprinting. The region overlapped nearly perfectly with the GC box consensus sequence. Methylation interference footprinting revealed that all the guanines within the region and two other guanines in the close vicinity interacted with the proteins. Competitive gel mobility shift assay using various synthetic oligonucleotides of the GC box sequences as the competitors demonstrated that BTEB and Sp1 have similar sequence specificities for DNA binding. We have purified the bacterially expressed BTEB and measured the dissociation constant of the BTEB-BTE complex using gel mobility shift assay. The dissociation constant was (3.0 +/- 1.0) x 10(-10) M and was comparable to that of Sp1 binding to a GC box. Taken together, these findings indicate that the binding modes of BTEB and Sp1 to the GC box are similar to each other.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sogawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Imataka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujii-Kuriyama
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D003300:Copper; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression; D051741:Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors; D008745:Methylation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D010618:Phenanthrolines; D010957:Plasmids; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D016329:Sp1 Transcription Factor / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D051741:Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors; D010618:Phenanthrolines; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D016329:Sp1 Transcription Factor; D014157:Transcription Factors; C001635:ferroin; C077017:Klf9 protein, rat; D003300:Copper; D004247:DNA