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. 1978 Oct;75(10):4689–4693. doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.10.4689

Exposure of DNA bases induced by the interaction of DNA and calf thymus DNA helix-destabilizing protein.

T Kohwi-Shigematsu, T Enomoto, M A Yamada, M Nakanishi, M Tsuboi
PMCID: PMC336185  PMID: 216994

Abstract

The reaction of chloroacetaldehyde with adenine bases in DNA to give a fluorescent product was used to study the availability to intermolecular reaction of positions 1 and 6 of adenine in DNA complexes with calf thymus DNA helix-destabilizing protein. No inhibition of this reaction was observed when heat-denatured DNA was complexed with the protein at a protein/DNA weight ratio of 10:1, compared to free DNA. On the contrary, the same reaction was inhibited markedly for denatured DNA in the presence of calf thymus histone HI at protein/DNA weight ratio of 2:1. Furthermore, the exchange rate for hydrogens of amino and imide groups of DNA bases in DNA strands with deuterium in the solvent was totally unaffected upon complexing of DNA with the DNA helix-destabilizing protein as examined by stopped-flow ultraviolet spectroscopy. These results indicate that the DNA helix-destabilizing protein forms a complex with single-stranded DNA, leaving DNA bases uncovered by the protein. The fluorescence intensity of DNA pretreated with chloroacetaldehyde was amplified by nearly 3-fold upon addition of the DNA helix-destabilizing protein. The possibility of "unstacking" of DNA bases induced by the protein is discussed.

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