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An Immunoassay for the Study of DNA-binding Activities of Herpes Simplex Virus Protein ICP8

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Journal J Virol
Date 1985 Jun 1
PMID 2987527
Citations 34
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An immunoassay was used to examine the interaction between a herpes simplex virus protein, ICP8, and various types of DNA. The advantage of this assay is that the protein is not subjected to harsh purification procedures. We characterized the binding of ICP8 to both single-stranded (ss) and double-stranded (ds) DNA. ICP8 bound ss DNA fivefold more efficiently than ds DNA, and both binding activities were most efficient in 150 mM NaCl. Two lines of evidence indicate that the binding activities were not identical: (i) ds DNA failed to complete with ss DNA binding even with a large excess of ds DNA; (ii) Scatchard plots of DNA binding with various amounts of DNA were fundamentally different for ss DNA and ds DNA. However, the two activities were related in that ss DNA efficiently competed with the binding of ds DNA. We conclude that the ds DNA-binding activity of ICP8 is probably distinct from the ss DNA-binding activity. No evidence for sequence-specific ds DNA binding was obtained for either the entire herpes simplex virus genome or cloned viral sequences.

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