Probing protein: DNA interactions using a uniform monolayer of DNA and surface plasmon resonance

Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry; Charles T. Campbell; Gary D. Stormo; Fauzi S. Silbaq; Rudolf H. Aebersold

doi:10.1117/12.383343

21 April 2000 Probing protein: DNA interactions using a uniform monolayer of DNA and surface plasmon resonance

Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry, Charles T. Campbell, Gary D. Stormo, Fauzi S. Silbaq, Rudolf H. Aebersold

Proceedings Volume 3922, Scanning and Force Microscopies for Biomedical Applications II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383343
Event: BiOS 2000 The International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A method is described for immobilizing double-stranded DNAs to a planar gold surface with high density and uniform spacing. This is accomplished by adsorbing biotinylated DNAs onto a nearly close-packed monolayer of the protein streptavidin. This streptavidin monolayer, which offers approximately 5 X 10¹² biotin sites per cm², is prepared first by adsorbing it onto a mixed self-assembled monolayer on gold which contains biotin-terminated and oligo-terminated alkylthiolates in a 3/7 ratio. This DNA- functionalized surface resists non-specific protein adsorption and is useful for probing the kinetics and equilibrium binding of proteins to DNA with surface plasmon resonance. This is demonstrated with the Mnt protein, which is found to bind in 3.8:1 ratio to its immobilized DNA operator sequence. This is consistent with its behavior in homogeneous solution, where it binds as a tetramer to its DNA. A sequence with a single base-pair mutation shows nearly as much Mnt binding, but a completely random DNA sequence shows only 5 percent of this binding. This proves that DNA-binding proteins bind sequence-specifically to double-stranded DNAs which are immobilized to gold with this streptavidin linker layer.

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Jennifer S. Shumaker-Parry, Charles T. Campbell, Gary D. Stormo, Fauzi S. Silbaq, and Rudolf H. Aebersold "Probing protein: DNA interactions using a uniform monolayer of DNA and surface plasmon resonance", Proc. SPIE 3922, Scanning and Force Microscopies for Biomedical Applications II, (21 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383343

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