Figure 2.
Fluorescence quenching as a reporter of adjacent binding between Alexa647-labelled ssoSSB monomers. (A) Fluorescence spectra of Alexa647-labelled SsoSSB as function of increasing concentrations of a 12-mer dC single-stranded DNA. (B) Percentage of quenching of Alexa647 intensity as a function of ssDNA concentration in a background of 10 mM KCl. Values represent the average of three experiments and are given as mean ± s.e.m. Solid line indicates the non-linear squares fit to Equation S1 as described in the Supplementary section. KD and Hill coefficient values of 20 ± 1 nM and 1.3 ± 0.2 were obtained, respectively.