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Theory on the mechanism of rapid binding of transcription factor proteins at specific-sites on DNA (1407.0846v2)

Published 3 Jul 2014 in physics.bio-ph and q-bio.BM

Abstract: We develop revised theoretical ideas on the mechanism by which the transcription factor proteins locate their specific binding sites on DNA faster than the three-dimensional (3D) diffusion controlled rate limit. We demonstrate that the 3D-diffusion controlled rate limit can be enhanced when the protein molecule reads several possible binding stretches of the template DNA via one-dimensional (1D) diffusion upon each 3D-diffusion mediated collision or nonspecific binding event. The overall enhancement of site-specific association rate is directly proportional to the maximum possible sliding length (LA, square root of (6Do/kr) where Do is the 1D-diffusion coefficient and kr is the dissociation rate constant associated with the nonspecific DNA-protein complex) associated with the 1D-diffusion of protein molecule along DNA. Upon considering several possible mechanisms we find that the DNA binding proteins can efficiently locate their cognate sites on DNA by switching across fast-moving, slow-moving and reading states of their DNA binding domains in a cyclic manner. Irrespective of the type of mechanism the overall rate enhancement factor asymptotically approaches a limiting value which is directly proportional to LA as the total length of DNA that contains the cognate site increases. These results are consistent with the in vitro experimental observations.

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