Studies of DNA ‘breathing’ by polarization-sweep single-molecule fluorescence microscopy of exciton-coupled (iCy3)2dimer-labeled DNA fork constructs

Author:

Maurer Jack,Albrecht Claire S.,Herbert Patrick,Heussman Dylan,Chang Anabel,von Hippel Peter H.,Marcus Andrew H.ORCID

Abstract

AbstractLocal fluctuations of the sugar-phosphate backbones and bases of DNA (often called DNA ‘breathing’) play a variety of critical roles in controlling the functional interactions of the DNA genome with the protein complexes that regulate it. Here we present a single-molecule fluorescence method that we have used to measure and characterize such conformational fluctuations at and near biologically important positions in model DNA replication fork constructs labeled with exciton-coupled cyanine [(iCy3)2] dimer probes. Previous work has shown that the constructs that we test here exhibit a broad range of spectral properties at the ensemble level, and these differences can be structurally and dynamically interpreted using our present methodology at the single-molecule level. The (iCy3)2dimer has one symmetric (+) and one anti-symmetric (–) exciton with respective transition dipole moments oriented perpendicular to one another. We excite single molecule samples using a continuous-wave linearly polarized laser with polarization direction continuously rotated at the frequency 1 MHz. The ensuing fluorescence signal is modulated as the laser polarization alternately excites the symmetric and the anti-symmetric excitons of the (iCy3)2dimer probe. Phase-sensitive detection of the modulated signal provides information about the distribution of local conformations and conformational interconversion dynamics of the (iCy3)2probe. We find that at most construct positions that we examined the (iCy3)2dimer-labeled DNA fork constructs can adopt four topologically distinct conformational macrostates. These results suggest that in addition to observing DNA breathing at and near ss-dsDNA junctions, our new methodology should be useful to determine which of these pre-existing macrostates are recognized by, bind to, and are stabilized by various genome regulatory proteins.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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