Specificity of hydroxylmethyluracil-containing DNA for transcription factor 1: structural insights.
The genomic materials from some Bacillus subtilis bacteriophages are found to contain 5-(hydroxymethyl)-2'-deoxyuridine in place of thymine. Phage-encoded proteins such as transcription factor 1 specifically and preferentially bind to the minor grooves of these hmU-containing DNA but not to thymine-containing DNA. Data from electrophoretic mobility shift assays suggest that the inherent, localized flexibility of hmU-DNA, which is sequence-specific, is responsible for its discriminative binding. We discuss here, from the NMR-derived structural point of view, how differential DNA flexibility can contribute to specific binding of TF1 to hmU-DNA.
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D001665:Binding Sites; D004247:DNA / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D010432:Pentoxyl / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry; D014764:Viral Proteins
D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; C059361:TF1 DNA-binding protein, Bacteriophage SPO1; D014764:Viral Proteins; C008055:5-hydroxymethyluracil; D010432:Pentoxyl; D004247:DNA