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Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos“Projeto Café com Física”
Relação entre elasticidade de DNA e a ligação cooperativa de proteínas e fármacos
Oscar Nassif MesquitaDepartamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
Trabalho em colaboração com:
Lívia Siman Gomes (Doutoranda, Física - UFMG)Ismael S. Silva Carrasco (Mestrando, Física - UFV)Prof. Jafferson K. L. da Silva (Física - UFMG)Prof. Ricardo S. Schor (Física – UFMG)Profa. Mônica C. de Oliveira (Farmácia – UFMG)Prof. Márcio Santos Rocha (Física – UFV)
Agências financiadoras: Fapemig, CNPq, Pronex-Facepe, INCFx-Instituto Nacional de Fluidos Complexos e Aplicações
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Outline
• Stretching single DNA molecules with optical tweezers: measurement of the persistence length and contour length.
• Study of the interaction between DNA and molecules of pharmaceutical interest.
• Interaction between DNA and beta-cyclodextrin: non-monotonic flexibility.
• HU-DNA interaction: previous example of non-monotonic flexibility.
• Hill cooperativity in biochemical reactions.
• Our two-sites quenched disorder model to explain non-monotonic flexibilities.
• Results and discussion.
• Conclusions.
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An optical tweezers is just a light beam trapping some material(A. Ashkin example)
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Single Molecule ExperimentsSchematic set-up of optical tweezers
Optical tweezers is an invention of A. Ashkin in 1970, Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 156 (1970)
Complete theory of optical tweezers for dielectric spheres by Maia Neto and Nussenzveig (Europhys. Lett, 50, 70C2 (2000)), and Mazolli, Maia Neto and Nussenzveig (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 459, 3021 (2003)), named Mie-Debye (MD) theory.
Viana, Rocha, Mesquita, Mazolli, Maia Neto, and Nussenzveig, APL (2006), and PRE (2007).
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Set – up at UFMG
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Brownian motion of a microsphere in a harmonic
potentialLangevin equation:
0)()0()()0()()0(2
2
txxk
dttxxd
dttxxdm
)(2)()()(2
2
ttTktftftfkxdtdx
dtxdm B
Position correlation function satisfies the Langevin equation:
Neglecting inertia and using the equipartition theorem
i
B
kTkx 2
iii
t
i
Bii
ka
k
ekTktxx i
6
0
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From the time autocorrelation function we obtain the tweezers´ stiffness for motion perpendicular and parallel to the incident direction.
Intensity back-scattering profileTime autocorrelation function of back-scattered intensity fluctuations of a trapped bead
mpNkx
2.08.5
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-3
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-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
0,5 0,55 0,6 0,65 0,7 0,75 0,8 0,85
k X= 0.4 pN/m
Pot
entia
l ene
rgy
X (m)
-5
0
5
10
15
20
0,5 0,55 0,6 0,65 0,7 0,75 0,8 0,85
Normalized histogram
Pro
babi
lity
X (m)
=-ln (probability)
Tweezers calibration with video-imaging
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DNA and RNA stretching experiments
Entropic elasticity of a single DNA molecule
Nucleotides Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Tymine
First experiment by Carlos Bustamante and co-workers Science (1992)
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Stretching DNA : entropic elasticity
⟨𝑡 (0 ) .𝑡 (𝑠 )⟩=𝑒− 𝑠𝐴
A is the polymer persistence length
A = bending rigidity/thermal energy
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nmA 150 mL 1.05.19
Viana, Freire & Mesquita, PRE 65, 041921 (2002)
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14
12
LzL
zATkF B
Marko and Siggia expression for the entropic force, where A is the persistence length, z is the end-to-end distance and L is the contour length of the polymer.
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DNA/Ethidium BromideFit to the neighbor exclusion model
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DNA-psoralen interaction
Persistence length with and withoutUV light Relative increase of contour length
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Psoralen-DNA fragment with five base CG pairs and twointercalated psoralens obtained from our ab initio DFT calculations.
DNA-psoralen: Single-molecule experiments and first principles calculations, APL (2009)M. S. Rocha, A. D. Lúcio, S. S. Alexandre, R. W. Nunes, and O. N. Mesquita
ab initio DFT calculations
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Cyclodextrins are used for condensing DNAinto small lipid vesicles for gene therapy
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CD-DNA persistence length measured with optical tweezers
Blue squares – cationic CD Red circles – neutral CD
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total HU concentration (nM)
J. van Noort et al., PNAS 101 (18), 6969 (2004)
HU-DNA persistence length measured with magnetic tweezers
(continuous curve is a guide to the eye)
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A) HU dimmers (spheres) bind cooperatively (bound-clusters with 4 or 5 HU molecules as measured by FRET) and compacts DNA at low protein concentration, each HU dimmer introducing a small local bend.
B) At high HU concentrations, compactation by HU is reversed, and the protein appears to form a complex with helical structure with DNA.
HU-DNA model for binding and DNA structural changes
Sagi et al., J. Mol. Biol., 341, 419 (2004)
smaller persistence length
larger persistence length
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A mechanism of interaction of CD and DNA with a flipping-out DNA base
M. A. Spies and R. L. Schowen, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 14049 (2002)
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Hill cooperativityn ligands bind simultaneously to the substrate (bound-cluster)
L for ligand and S for substrate
Mass-action law:Fraction of ligands bound:
is the dissociation constant;
0
0,2
0,4
0,6
0,8
1
0 20 40 60 80 100
Hill binding isotherm
n=1n=4n=10fra
ctio
n bo
und
Cf
for
= 40
Hill exponentn < 1 negative cooperativityn = 1 non-cooperativityn > 1 positive cooperativity
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Two-sites quenched disorder model1) Assumption 1: When a bound-cluster binds to DNA it decreases the persistence length from
the bare DNA value to ; if two bound-clusters become nearest-neighbors they stiffen the DNA, resulting in a larger persistence length .
2) Assumption 2: The bound-clusters have the same average size of n molecules, cannot move along the DNA (quenched disorder), and are randomly distributed along the DNA. As one increases the ligand concentration in solution, the number of clusters increases proportionally, but not their size.
Resulting equation for the model
1𝐴=
𝑃0
𝐴0+𝑃1
𝐴1+𝑃2
𝐴2= 1𝐴0
+( 2𝐴1− 2𝐴0 ) 𝑟
𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥+( 1
𝐴0− 2𝐴1
+ 1𝐴2 )( 𝑟
𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥 )2
𝑟𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥
=(𝐶 𝑓
𝐾 𝑑 )𝑛
1+(𝐶 𝑓
𝐾 𝑑 )𝑛 ≡𝐻 (𝐶𝑓 )
;a) Two sites empty, , have probability
b) One site empty and the other occupied, have probability 𝑃1=( 2𝑟 /𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥 ) (1−𝑟 /𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥 ) ;c) Two sites occupied, have probability 𝑃2= (𝑟 /𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥 )2 .
, , free adjustable parameters
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Solving Hill equation iterativelyEquation has a single-fixed point solution
Experimentally we know the total ligand concentration but not the free ligand concentration . Since then,
a) zeroth-order solution: 𝐻 (𝐶 𝑓 )≅𝐻 [𝐶𝑇 ]
b) first-order solution:𝐻 (𝐶 𝑓 )≅𝐻 [𝐶𝑇−𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥𝐶𝑏𝑝𝐻 (𝐶𝑇 ) ] 0
0,2
0,4
0,6
0,8
1
0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1
x
𝑥≡𝑟 /𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑎≡𝐶𝑇 /𝐾 𝑑𝑏≡𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑥𝐶𝑏𝑝 /𝐾 𝑑
𝑥=(𝑎−𝑏𝑥 )𝑛
1+(𝑎−𝑏𝑥 )𝑛= 𝑓 (𝑥 )
𝑎=1𝑏=0.5
Iterative solution possible if
|𝑑𝑓 (𝑥 )𝑑𝑥 |<1 then
,
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
convergence criterium
B
n
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0.02
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0.04
0.05
0.06
0.07
0.08
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
A-1
(nm
-1)
CT (M)
Cationic CD-DNA interactionFit using our model with first-order Hill equation
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0
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.06
0.07
1 10 100 1000
A-1
(nm
-1)
CT (nM)
HU-DNA interactionFit using our model with a zeroth-ordem Hill equation
Data from J. van Noort et al., PNAS 101 (18), 6969 (2004)
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Conclusions
• We can study DNA interactions with ligands by measuring the persistence length and contour length of the complexes formed, using optical tweezers in single-molecule assays.
• Interaction between DNA and beta-cyclodextrin and between HU-DNA cause non-monotonic persistence length behavior, indicating that for low ligand concentration the complex formed is more flexible and for higher concentrations more rigid.
• We propose a two-sites quenched disorder statistical model together with Hill cooperativity, which provides a model function which fits very well both sets of data. Our model predicts that the binding kinetics is mediated by size stabilized bound-clusters. With the quantitative parameters obtained we were able to propose a microscopic physical mechanism for the CD-DNA cooperative binding.
• Therefore, from a single mechanical measurement we can obtain the elastic parameters related to structural changes of the DNA molecule caused by the ligands, together with the chemical parameters of the binding reaction.