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- Title
Thermodynamic investigation of DNA-binding affinity of wild-type and mutant transcription factor RUNX1.
- Authors
Wu, Fangrui; Song, Tidie; Yao, Yuan; Song, Yongcheng
- Abstract
Transcription factor RUNX1 and its binding partner CBFβ play a critical role in gene regulation for hematopoiesis. Mutations of RUNX1 cause ~10% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a particularly poor prognosis. The current paradigm for the leukemogenesis is that insufficient activity of wild-type (WT) RUNX1 impairs hematopoietic differentiation. The majority of mutant RUNX1 proteins lose the DNA-binding affinity and inhibit WT RUNX1 by depletion of CBFβ. Here, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) was used to quantitatively study the interactions of WT and three clinical mutant RUNX1, CBFβ and DNA. Our data show that the binding of RUNX1 to DNA is enthalpy-driven, and the affinity decreases in the order of WT > S114L > R139Q >> K83E, which support previous observations and conclusion. To find potentially beneficial RUNX1 mutations that could increase the overall RUNX1 activity, K83R and H179K mutations of RUNX1 were designed, using structure-based computational modeling, and found to possess significantly higher DNA-binding affinities than does WT RUNX1. K83R and H179K mutant RUNX1 could therefore be protein-based RUNX1 activators.
- Subjects
DNA primers; TRANSCRIPTION factors; ACUTE myeloid leukemia; MUTANT proteins; ISOTHERMAL titration calorimetry; DNA-binding proteins
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0216203