Visualising the kinetics of dissociation of actinomycin from individual sites in mixed sequence DNA by DNase I footprinting.
AUTOR(ES)
Fletcher, M C
RESUMO
We have investigated the kinetics of dissociation of actinomycin D from DNA by a variation of the footprinting technique. Complexes of actinomycin with a radiolabelled DNA fragment (tyrT) were dissociated by addition of a large excess of unlabelled calf thymus DNA and the mixture subjected to DNase I footprinting at subsequent intervals. The rates at which the footprints disappeared varied between the different binding sites. The dissociation was temperature dependent with average time constants of 30 s, 10 mins and 2 hours at temperatures of 37 degrees C, 20 degrees C and 4 degrees C respectively. The dissociation from a DNA fragment containing the synthetic insert T9GCA9 was significantly faster, with a half-life of about 1 min at 20 degrees C. In contrast, the dissociation of distamycin was too fast to measure (< 5 s) even at 4 degrees C.
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