Topological effects of the TATA box binding protein on minicircle DNA and a possible thermodynamic linkage to chromatin remodeling
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Topological effects of the TATA box binding protein on minicircle DNA and a possible thermodynamic linkage to chromatin remodeling
Abstract
DNA ring closure experiments on short restriction fragments ( approximately 160 bp) bound by the TATA box binding protein (TBP) have demonstrated the formation of negative topoisomers, consistent with crystallographically observed TBP-induced DNA untwisting but in contrast to most previous results on topological effects in plasmid DNA. The difference may be due to the high free energy cost of substantial writhe in minicircles. A speculative mechanism for the loss of TBP-induced writhe suggests that TBP is capable of inducing DeltaTw between 0 and -0.3 in minicircles, via loss of out-of-plane bending upon retraction of intercalating Phe stirrups, and that TBP can thus act as a "supercoil shock absorber". The proposed biological relevance of these observations is that they may model the behavior of DNA in constrained chromatin environments. Irrespective of the detailed mechanism of TBP-induced supercoiling, its existence suggests that chromatin remodeling and enhanced TBP binding are thermodynamically linked. Remodeling ATPases or histone acetylases release some of the negative supercoiling previously restrained by the nucleosome. When TBP takes up the supercoiling, its binding should be enhanced transiently until the unrestrained supercoiling is removed by diffusion or topoisomerases. The effect is predicted to be independent of local remodeling-induced changes in TATA box accessibility.
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