title: Backbone dynamics of a winged helix protein and its DNA complex at different temperatures: changes of internal motions in genesis upon binding to DNA.
abstract: The dynamic properties of a winged helix protein, Genesis, and its DNA complex at different temperatures were studied. Due to the complexity of motions, the commonly used model-free formalism could not be used to reflect the dynamic properties. The reduced spectral density function mapping approach was proven to be a useful tool to describe the overall and internal motion of molecules on the picosecond to nanosecond time-scale, and conformational exchanges on the microsecond to millisecond time-scale. The local motions in DNA-free Genesis showed strong temperature dependence and the backbone dynamics of each secondary structural element responds to the temperature change differently, while the Genesis-DNA complex showed more stability with changing the temperatures. Furthermore, each DNA contact sequence of Genesis showed distinct dynamic perturbation after Genesis binds to DNA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, M/C 536, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1819 West Polk Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors; D019077:Helix-Turn-Helix Motifs; D007700:Kinetics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors; C101757:Foxd3 protein, mouse; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D004247:DNA