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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 22.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2011 Feb 3;50(11):1864–1874. doi: 10.1021/bi101856a

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Direct measurement of εA-DNA dissociation from Y127W and Y159W AAG. Double-mixing experiments were performed using stopped-flow fluorescence. The AAG•DNA complex was formed, aged for one second, and then chased with an excess of pyrrolidine-DNA as a competitor. The normalized fluorescence was obtained by dividing the observed fluorescence signal by the fluorescence of the sample after the dissociation reaction was complete. The traces reflect the average of 3 separate mixing experiments and the solid lines depict the best fit of a single exponential. Only one out of every twenty data points is shown for clarity. The observed rate constants for dissociation are 0.12 s-1 for Y127W (◇) and 0.37 s-1 for Y159W (○) mutant proteins.