Patent Application: US-32425899-A

Abstract:
weak binding motifs were transformed into a high affinity ligand surface by using a heterologous self - assembled monolayer as a rigid scaffold to present discrete binding moieties , in a controlled geometry , to a target molecule . at a critical ligand density , the discrete binding moieties simulated a multivalent ligand and promoted high - affinity , cooperative binding of the target molecule . statistical calculations were applied to sam components in solution and gold - sulfur packing dimensions to extract the inter - ligand - distance within the sam . this distance information is valuable to the rational design of multivalent drugs .

Description:
variable density nitrilotriacetic acid ( nta )- sams were used to probe the binding site ( s ) of a biologically important molecule , the human general transcription factor - tata box binding protein ( htbp ) [ burley , s . k . and roeder , r . g . ( 1996 ) biochemistry and structural biology of transcription factor iid ( tfiid ). annu . rev . biochem . 65 : 769 - 799 ]. this transcription factor has been implicated as a direct target of transcriptional activators such as vp16 [ ingles , j . c ., m . shales , w . d . cress , s . j . triezenberg and j . greenblatt . ( 1991 ) reduced binding of tfiid to transcriptionally compromised mutants of vp16 . nature . 351 : 588 - 590 ]. in fact , the need for , an activator is eliminated when tbp is artificially tethered to a dna promoter [ xiao , h ., j . d . friesen and j . t . lis . 1995 . recruiting tata - binding protein to a promoter : transcriptional activation without an upstream activator . mol . and cell . biol . 15 ( 10 ): 5757 - 5761 ]. transcriptional activator proteins are modular in that they have functionally separable domains [ brent , r . and m . ptashne . ( 1985 ) a eukaryotic transcriptional activator bearing the dna specificity of a prokaryotic repressor . cell . 43 : 729 - 736 ], a dna binding domain , and an activating region . the structures of tbp [ nikolov , d . b ., h . chen , e . d . halay , a . a . usheva , k . hisatake , d . k . lee , r . g . roeder and s . k . burley . ( 1995 ) crystal structure of a tfiib - tbp - tata element ternary complex . nature . 377 : 119 - 128 ] and several activator dna binding domains [ marmorstein , r ., m . carey , m . ptashne , and s . c . harrison . 1992 . dna recognition by ga14 : structure of a protein / dna complex . nature . 356 : 408 - 414 ; ellenberger et al ., 1992 ; and baleja , j . d ., r . marmorstein , s . c . harrison and g . wagner . 1992 ]. the structure of the dna - binding domain of cd2 - gal4 from saccaromyces cervisiae in solution has been solved , yet the structure of an activating region , alone or complexed with a target molecule has remained elusive . fundamental questions as to how an activating region effects gene transcription remain unanswered . one mechanistic model of gene activation proposes that dna - bound activators trigger transcription by merely “ recruiting ” some necessary factor , perhaps tbp , to the promoter through direct contact with the activating region [ triezenberg , s . j ., 1995 . structure and function of activation domains . curr . opin . genet . dev ., 5 ( 2 ): 190 - 196 ]. another model proposes that activating regions induce a conformational change in a target protein ( s ) [ sheldon and reinberg , 1995 ] or sequentially perform some function until a threshold is reached which catalyzes gene transcription . in eukaryotes , more than one dna - tethered activator is typically required to achieve activated transcription and that multiply bound activators transcribe synergistically [ lin , y . s ., m . carey , m . ptashne and m . r . green . ( 1990 ) how different eukaryotic transcriptional activators can cooperate promiscuously . nature 345 : 359 - 361 ]. cryptic repeats of minimal activation motifs have been identified in eukaryotic activators that , when tandemly reiterated and tethered to dna , efficiently activate transcription in vitro [ blair et al ., 1994 ; tanaka , m . and w . herr , ( 1994 ) reconstitution of transcriptional activation domains by reiteration of short peptide segments reveals the modular organization of a glutamine - rich activation domain . mol . cell . biol . 14 ( 9 ): 6056 - 6067 ]. an eight amino acid minimal activation motif ( dfdldmlg ) ( seq id no : 10 ) derived from the prototypic mammalian activator vp16 was recently identified [ tanaka , m . ( 1996 ) modulation of promoter occupancy by cooperative dna binding and activation - function is a major determinant of transcriptional regulation by activators in vivo . proc . natl . acad sci . usa . 93 ( 9 ): 4311 - 4315 ]. as an exemplary embodiment , this invention describes novel biophysical methods to quantitate the kinetics , as well as investigate the mechanism , of the interaction between htbp and tandem repeats of the vp 16 minimal motif . the interactions were characterized by spr in a biacore instrument . spr is a fairly new optical technique for the real time detection and kinetic analysis of intermolecular interactions [ liedberg , b ., c . nylander and l . lundstrom . ( 1983 ) surface plasmon resonarce for gas detection and biosensing . sens . actuators . 4 ( 2 ): 299 - 304 ; daniels et al ., 1988 ; lofas , s . and johnsson , b . ( 1990 ) a novel hydrogel matrix on gold surfaces in surface plasmon resonance sensors for fast and efficient covalent immobilization of ligands . j chem . soc ., chem . commun . : 1526 - 1528 ]. the basis of the technology is as follows : ligands are immobilized on a surface ; putative target molecules are flowed over this surface ; the protein concentration at the solution - surface interface changes as target binds ligand . the increased protein mass at the interface causes a change in the optical properties of the system . the amount of new protein recruited to the interfacial region can be quantitated by measuring the change in the angle at which light reflected off the interface is a minimum [ for a review see bamdad , c . 1997 . surface plasmon resonance for measurements of biological interest . current protocols in molecular biology 20 . 4 . 1 - 20 . 4 . 12 .]. changes in this angle are measured in resonance units ( rus ) where 1 ru is defined as a change of 1 / 10 , 000th of a degree . a rule of thumb is that for a distance of about 150 mn from the interface , 1 ng protein / mm 2 registers 10 3 rus . sams were generated that incorporated an nta group for the specific binding of histidine - tagged peptides . the density of nta in the sam was varied so that different amounts of a his - tagged activation motif could be presented to tbp , in solution . spr was used to quantitate avidity effects between tbp and surface - bound peptides as a function of peptide density . fig1 shows mixed self - assembled monolayers ( sams ) that were generated by doping a thiol solution with an nta - terminated thiol and designed to capture histidine - tagged proteins . sulfur atoms deposit on gold substrates in a hexagonal tiling pattern 4 . 99 å on edge with three possible positions for thiol deposition per hexagon . if it is assumed that in a well - ordered sam all sites are occupied , poisson statistics can be used to calculate an average distance between nta - thiols for a given nta concentration . equation ( 1 ) calculates how many hexagons must be filled before two nta - thiols are deposited . for a 3 . 8 % nta - thiol concentration in solution , relative to eg 3 - thiol , an average of 17 . 5 hexagons must be filled before 2 nta ligands appear . for a 5 . 7 % nta solution , 11 . 7 hexagons must be filled before an average of two nta ligands are deposited . the area of a hexagon 4 . 99 å on edge is 64 . 69 å 2 which is equal to the area of a square , 8 . 04 å on edge . nta ligands on sams formed from a 3 . 8 % nta - thiol solution would be an average of 29 å apart , while nta ligands in a sam formed from a 5 . 7 % nta - thiol solution would be 23 å apart . it was assumed that the concentration of nta - thiol in solution was equal to its concentration in the sam ; see fig2 of sigal et al ., 1996 . fig2 shows that htbpc in solution will not bind to gst - 2x peptide surfaces unless peptides are immobilized close to one another . the biacore spr instrument records changes in the angle of minimum reflectance ( rus ) as a function of time . reagents are flowed over individual flow cells of the sam . the “ square waves ” represent injections of protein “ plugs ” that interrupt the constant buffer flow . an association constant can be derived from an analysis of the initial phase of the injection and a dissociation rate can be extracted from analysis of the system as it returns to buffer flow . gst - 2x or 4 x ( seq id no : 12 ) fusion proteins ( x = dfdldmlg ) ( seq id no : 3 ) were separately immobilized on nta - sams via histidine - tags then htbpc ( 124 nm ) was injected over the surfaces . an overlay of two spr sensorgrams shows that htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) does not bind to gst - 2x ( seq id no : 13 ) immobilized on a 3 . 8 % nta - sam ( dashed line ) but binds very tightly when immobilized on a 5 . 7 % nta - sam ( solid - line ). fig3 shows the binding of target protein tbp measured by spr as a function of peptide surface density . a series of nta - sams were generated to display peptides at low to high density . when two tandem repeats of the minimal activation peptide ( gst2x ) ( seq id no : 13 ) were displayed at low density ( 1 . 3 %- 3 . 8 %), human tbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) did not bind to the surface . in contrast , a more dense gst - 2x surface ( 5 . 7 %- 11 . 4 %), bound significant amounts of human tbpc . fusion proteins bearing four tandem repeats of the minimal activation peptide ( gst - 4x ) ( seq id no : 14 ) bound htbpc whether the peptides were displayed at low or high density . the stoichiometry of the interaction was a constant , independent of the immobilization density . notably , at corresponding surface concentrations , gst - 2x bound half as much htbpc as gst - 4x , suggesting that two - 2x modules immobilized at close proximity to each other ( high density ) simultaneously contact one htbpc molecule . fig4 shows that the binding of htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) to surface immobilized gst - 2x ( seq id no : 13 ) is a non - linear function of the surface density of the peptide . histidine - tagged peptides were separately immobilized on sams presenting nta over a wide range of surface densities . spr was used to quantitate the amount of target protein , htbpc that bound to each surface . the mass ratios of captured htbpc to surface immobilized peptide ( gst - 2x or - 4x ) ( seq id nos : 13 or 14 ) was plotted as a function of peptide concentration . the binding of htbpc to gst4x ( dashed line ) is roughly constant over the range of surface peptide densities . however , the binding of htbpc to gst - 2x ( solid line ) approximates a step function of gst - 2x surface concentration . fig5 shows experiments that were designed to discriminate between three possible mechanistic models to explain how reiterated peptide activation motifs synergistically effect transcription of a nearby gene . model 1 : two connected peptide motifs must be positioned such that they can simultaneously bind to quasi - identical sites on tbp ( seq id no : 2 ). the bivalent , high affinity interaction would keep the general transcription factor tethered near the start site of transcription awaiting other steps in the transcriptional activation process . model 2 : the binding of one or two peptide activation motifs causes a conformational change in tbp . the allosteric effect enhances the subsequent binding of additional peptide motifs and a high affinity interaction results . model 3 : a high affinity interaction occurs between the peptide repeats and tbp but rather than resulting from a “ bivalent ” interaction or an allosteric effect , it results from the simple summation of multiple interactions between tbp and the entire length of the activation peptide . fig6 shows titration curves , summarizing competitive inhibition experiments , that yield ic 50 s that show the 4x peptide ( seq id no : 12 ) binds htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) 250 times tighter than the 2x peptide ( seq id no : 11 ). in order to quantitate the solution kinetics of htbpc binding to synthetic 4x peptides ( 4 tandem repeats of dfdldmlg ) ( seq id no : 12 ) or 2x peptides ( 2 repeats ), ( seq id no : 11 ) aliquots of htbpc ( 124 nm ) were incubated with increasing concentrations of either peptide at 4 ° c . for 1 hour . the mixtures were then separately injected over identical sams that were pre - bound with gst - 4x ( seq id no : 14 ). percent inhibition is plotted against the concentration of the blocking peptide in solution . 0 % inhibition was taken to be the amount of htbpc that bound to gst - 4x surfaces when it was incubated with buffer alone . background levels of binding were determined by injection of protein mixtures over naked gst surfaces . an ic 50 of 370 nm and 90 μm describe the equilibrium kinetics of htbpc binding to 4x and 2x peptides , respectively . fig7 shows that tata sequence dna bound to htbp ( seq id no : 2 ) does not inhibit the htbp / gst - 4x interaction . n - terminally histidine - tagged htbp ( seq id no : 15 ) was bound to nta - sams and the mass of bound protein was quantitated and recorded by a biacore spr instrument . the sams , bound with htbp , were then removed from the instrument and separately incubated at rt for 15 minutes with solutions containing equal mass amounts of either dna bearing the htbp tata recognition sequence or random sequence dna ( 150 mm nacl ; 50 nanomoles dna ). the sams were then washed in running buffer and re - docked in the spr instrument . the increase in absolute rus of the baseline indicated that the tata sequence dna bound to surface immobilized htbp with roughly 1 : 1 stoichiometry while the random dna bound only nonspecifically . protein plugs of gst4x ( seq id no : 14 ) were separately injected over these surfaces ; the presence of dna , bound nonspecifically or specifically , was not inhibitory to the subsequent binding of gst - 4x to htbp . additionally , the measured association and dissociation rates , which were not affected by dna - binding , were identical to those measured with gst - 4x bound to the sam and tbp in solution . fig8 shows that there is a synergistic increase in affinity between htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) in solution and surface - bound gst - 2x when the density of immobilization is increased from 3 . 8 % to 5 . 7 %. low ( 3 . 8 % nta ) then high ( 5 . 7 % nta ) density sams were docked in an spr device . histidine - tagged gst - 2x ( seq id no : 13 ) and gst - 4x ( seq id no : 17 ) fusion proteins ( 0 . 3 mg / ml ) were separately immobilized on individual flow cells of the sams . the mass of the immobilized species is recorded in resonance units ( rus ), where 1000 rus = 1 ng protein / mm 2 . one ru results from a net change of 1 / 10 , 000 of a degree in the angle of minimum reflectance off of the differential dielectric interface of the sensing wave . htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) ( 124 nm ) was then injected over the derivatized surfaces . the mass of the captured analyte was obtained by taking the difference between rus recorded 10 seconds prior to and 25 seconds after the injection . when gst - 2x ( seq id no : 13 ) was immobilized at low density it was not able to bind htbp . however , when immobilized at slightly higher density , a high affinity interaction resulted . the stoichiometry of surface immobilized gst4x ( seq id no : 14 ) binding to htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) was relatively constant but , notably , twice that of gst - 2x binding to htbpc which reinforces the idea that two - 2x ligands bind one htbpc molecule . fig9 shows competitive inhibition experiments in which 2x ligands behave very differently in solution than when surface immobilized and that reiterated minimal activation motifs effectively compete for the same binding site ( s ) on htbp ( seq id no : 2 ) as the parent protein . histidine - tagged gst - 4x ( seq id no : 17 ) or gst - 2x ( seq id no : 16 ) were separately immobilized on nta - sams docked in a biacore spr instrument . htbpc ( residues 155 - 335 ) or htbp ( full length ) was pre - incubated at high concentration ( 35 μm ) with either buffer , a synthetic 2x peptide ( seq id no : 11 ) ( x = dfdldmlg ) at 1 : 4 stoichiometry , a 4x peptide at ( seq id no : 12 ) 1 : 2 stoichiometry or a 1x - linker - 1x peptide dfdldmlg -(( ser ) 4 gly 1 ) 3 - dfdldmlg ) ( seq id no : 19 ) at 1 : 2 stoichiometry for 1 h at 40 ° c . just prior to injection over the derivatized surfaces , the pre - incubation mixtures were diluted such that the final htbp concentration was ( 124 nm ). the synthetic 4x and 1x - linker - 1x peptides blocked the interaction of htbp with surface immobilized ligands but 2x peptides were not inhibitory . histidine - tagged gal4 ( 1147 )+ vp16 ( 413 - 490 ) ( seq id no : 20 ) were similarly immobilized on nta - sams . htbp ( seq id no : 2 ) was preincubated , as described above , with either buffer or 4x peptide ( seq id no : 12 ) then diluted and injected over the vp16 presenting surfaces . the 32 amino acid 4x peptide effectively blocked the interaction of htbp with the 78 amino acid vp16 activation domain . a panel of variable density nta - sams were prepared by diluting the concentration of the active component , nta - thiol , relative to that of the inert component , eg 3 - thiol , in ethanol solutions . gold - coated glass slides were incubated in solutions containing 1 . 3 %, 3 . 8 %, 5 . 7 %, or 11 . 4 % nta - thiol , with the total thiol concentration constant at 1 mm . the sams were glued onto blank cm - 5 spr chip cassettes and docked into a biacore instrument . a 16 - mer peptide comprised of two repeats of the eight amino acid minimal activation motif ( x = dfdldmlg ), ( seq id no : 10 ) derived from the human activator vp16 , ( seq id no : 5 ) was fused to histidine - tagged gst ( gst - 2x ) ( seq id no : 16 ). the fusion proteins were then immobilized on variable - density sams through complexation of the nta group by the protein &# 39 ; s histidine tag . this generated a series of surfaces that displayed peptides at incrementally decreasing distances from each other . the core region of human tbp ( htbpc : residues 155 - 335 ) ( seq id no : 3 ) ( nikolov et al ., 1995 ) was injected over the peptide surfaces . gst - 2x ( seq id no : 13 ) immobilized at low density ( 1 . 3 %- 3 . 8 %), was unable to bind htbpc . in contrast , when the same concentration htbpc was injected over a more dense ( 5 . 7 %- 11 . 4 %) gst - 2x surface , where the average distance between peptide motifs would be smaller , a high affinity interaction resulted ( see fig2 and 8 ). as a control , fusion proteins bearing four iterations of the minimal motif ( gst - 4x ) ( seq id no : 14 ) were immobilized on the different density sams and assayed for the ability to bind the target molecule . human tbpc , in solution , bound identically to gst - 4x surfaces irrespective of the peptide density ( see fig3 and fig8 ). as the graph of fig4 shows , the stoichiometry of htbpc binding to gst - 4x derivatized surfaces is a constant , independent of the immobilization density . in contrast , the binding of htbpc to gst - 2x surfaces is a non - linear function of the surface density . notably , at corresponding surface concentrations , gst - 2x bound half as much htbpc as gst - 4x , suggesting that two 2x modules ( seq id no : 11 ) immobilized at close proximity to each other ( high density ) simultaneously contact one htbpc molecule . kinetic rate constants were extracted by analyzing association and dissociation phases of sensorgram curves using a non - linear regression curve fitting program : biaevaluation , version 2 . 1 . the analysis assumed pseudo - first order reactions . the interaction between gst4x and htbpc was characterized by an average association rate of 2 . 5 × 10 4 s − 1 m − 1 and an average dissociation rate of 4 × 10 31 4 s − 1 , yielding a calculated average k d of 16 × 10 − 9 m . standard errors obtained for each spr experiment were considerably smaller than the variation in kinetic rates measured among several experiments using a wide range of nta concentrations . there could be as much as a two - fold variation in the calculated k d . sensorgram association curves from the binding of htbpc to gst - 2x could not be fit by pseudo first order kinetics , again consistent with the idea that two - 2x modules bind one htbpc molecule . however , the dissociation phase of the sensorgram was well fit and yielded an average k d of 1 . 5 × 10 − 3 +/− 0 . 13 s − 1 for the interaction . the almost ten - fold difference between the 4x k d and 2x k d may indicate that the 2x dissociation curve is the superposition of two decay rates , corresponding to two dissociating species . note that at - high nta density , the chip surface acted as a rigid linker between two - 2x modules ( seq id no : 11 ) to mimic a 4x ( seq id no : 12 ) module , thus creating a higher affinity ligand . three possible models might explain why the 4x ( seq id no : 12 ) peptide is higher affinity ligand for htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) than a 2x ( seq id no : 11 ) peptide ( see fig5 ). model 1 proposes that the 4x peptide is a “ bivalent ” ligand that simultaneously and cooperatively binds more than one site on the target protein , producing a high affinity interaction characterized by a slower off - rate ( jencks , w . p . 1981 . on the attribution and additivity of binding energies . proc . natl . acad sci . usa . 78 ( 7 ): 4046 - 4050 .). model 2 says the binding of one recognition motif causes an allosteric effect that enhances the binding of subsequent motifs . four connected minimal motifs provide for an increased local concentration of ligand available for the second higher affinity interaction . model 3 proposes that the higher affinity interaction is the result of the summation of multiple interactions of equal strength between the target protein and the entire length of the peptide . a prediction of model 1 is that 2x peptides , free in solution , will interact with htbpc independently and exhibit a faster off - rate which is characteristic of monovalent binding . therefore , if htbpc is pre - bound by peptide in solution , the 4x peptide should be a much better inhibitor of htbpc binding to surface immobilized ligand than the 2x peptide . model 2 predicts that htbpc pre - bound by 4x or 2x peptides ( at twice the concentration ) would be similarly inhibited , so long as incubation concentrations were high enough to compensate for the 4x local concentration advantage . model 3 implies that mutation of amino acids within the peptide would decrease its affinity for tbp as an approximately linear function of the number of mutations . in order to compare dissociation rates , aliquots of htbpc were pre - incubated at very high concentration ( 35 μm ) with either buffer , 2x peptide ( 1 : 4 stoichiometry ), or 4x peptide ( 1 : 2 stoichiometry ), then diluted to the usual htbpc concentration 1 , ( 124 nm ) before injection over gst - 4x ( seq id no : 13 ) surfaces . synthetic 2x ( 16 - mer ) and 4x ( 32 - mer ) peptides were used to eliminate possible interference from gst . fig9 shows that the preincubation of htbpc with 2x peptide was in no way inhibitory to its interaction with surface immobilized gst - 4x . in contrast , preincubation of htbpc with 4x peptide ( seq id no : 12 ) completely abolished the interaction . additional experiments showed that the 32 - mer , but not the 16 - mer peptide , also blocked the binding of htbpc to high density gst - 2x surfaces , again demonstrating that gst - 2x , immobilized at high density , behaves like gst - 4x . the experiments tabulated in fig9 argue against the allosteric effect model but are consistent with models 1 and 3 . the question is , does the increased binding energy of the htbp - 4x interaction result from the cumulative effect of multiple bonds along the length of the peptide or from the synergistic effect of two minimal motifs simultaneously binding to the target molecule , with the intervening amino acids merely serving as a tether between the two ? a synthetic 31 amino acid peptide consisting two minimal motifs ( dfdldmlg ) ( seq id no : 11 ) separated by a flexible linker (( ser 4 glyl 3 ) ( seq id no : 18 ) was generated . this peptide , 1x - linker - 1x , ( seq id no : 19 ) when preincubated with htbp ( seq id no : 2 ) ( under the same conditions described above ) inhibited by 83 % the complex &# 39 ; s ability to bind to surface immobilized gst - 4x ( see fig9 ). these results reinforce the premise of model 1 and imply that the enhanced strength of binding between htbp and the 4x peptide is due to a synergistic effect caused by two connected minimal activation motifs simultaneously binding to two separate and discrete sites on htbp . one may also infer , from the last experiment , that the interaction between minimal activation motifs and htbp is specific . next the kinetics of the surface interaction to analogous interactions in solution were compared . a series of equilibrium inhibition experiments were performed to characterize the solution interactions between htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) and 2x or 4x ( seq id no : 11 ) peptides . aliquots of htbpc , ( 124 nm ), were mixed with increasing amounts of synthetic 2x or 4x peptide then incubated at 4 ° for 1 hour prior to injection over gst4x surfaces . titration curves ( see fig6 ) yield an ic 50 of 370nm for the 4x peptide and 90 μm for the 2x peptide binding to htbpc . in summary , the 4x peptide binds htbpc about 250 - times better than the 2x peptide . this is the relative difference between monovalent and bivalent binding of htbpc . the interaction between the 4x peptide and htbpc in solution is about 20 - times weaker than the comparable surface interaction where diffusion is limited . the physiological relevance of the interaction between htbp and the reiterated minimal motifs was investigated . it has been argued that the widely observed in vitro interactions between tbp and activation domains are artifacts resulting from a nonspecific interaction between tbp &# 39 ; s basic dna - binding region and the acidic peptides . to rule out this possibility , n - terminally histidine - tagged htbp ( seq id no : 15 ) was immobilized on nta - sams then separately incubated with either : a ) tata sequence dna ; or b ) dna that did not contain a htbp recognition sequence . gst - 4x was then injected over the derivatized surfaces . dna that did not contain a tata sequence did not bind to the immobilized htbp significantly . dna containing a tata sequence bound to immobilized htbp with approximate 1 : 1 stoichiometry but was in no way inhibitory to the subsequent binding of gst - 4x ( seq id no : 14 ) ( see fig7 ). in fact , htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) complexed by its cognate dna bound roughly twice as much gst - 4x as the uncomplexed htbpc . this result is consistent with the observation that htbpc exists as a dimer that is disrupted upon dna binding ( taggart , a . k . p . and b . f . pugh . 1996 . dimerization of tfiid when not bound to dna . science . 272 : 1331 - 1333 .). the binding of an activating region does not seem to disrupt htbpc dimerization . a competitive inhibition experiment was performed to determine whether the 4x peptide ( seq id no : 12 ) could block the interaction between htbp ( seq id no : 2 ) and the native activation domain of vp16 ( seq id no : 5 ). a histidine tagged gal4 ( 1 - 147 )+ vp16 ( 413 - 490 ) ( seq id no : 20 ) fusion protein was immobilized on nta - sams . htbp was incubated with buffer or 4x peptide then injected over vp16 derviatized surfaces . the last two lines of fig9 show that preincubation of htbp with the 4x peptide ( 32 amino acids ) completely abolished the htbp - vp 16 ( 78 amino acids ) interaction . this result is consistent with the idea that minimal activation motifs recognize the same binding site ( s ) on htbp as the parent activator . in conclusion , sams were used to form biospecific rigid , nano - scale probe arrays of known surface density and then utilized to determine the number of binding sites on a target molecule and an approximate distance between sites . this approach is not hampered by the vagaries of secondary or tertiary structures that would be encountered by using dna or peptide spacers to determine distances between active sites . spr was used to show that the avidity between tbp , in solution , and surface immobilized peptides was a non - linear function of peptide surface density . peptides immobilized on a 3 . 8 % nta - sam were not able to bind htbp , while peptides presented on a 5 . 7 % nta - sam bound tbp with nano - molar affinity . the findings are consistent with the idea that this large increase in binding strength marks the transition between mono - and bivalent binding of the target protein . individual 8 amino acid minimal activation motifs separated by a 15 amino acid flexible linker bound htbp nearly as well as four tandem repeats of the motif , leading to the conclusion that htbp has at least two discrete sites capable of simultaneously interacting with the 8 amino acid motif . calculations based on an assumed poisson distribution of nta in the sam indicate that the surfaces that did not bind htbp ( 3 . 7 % nta ) presented peptides an average distance of 29 å apart while peptides in denser arrays ( 5 . 7 % nta ) that bound htbp with high avidity were on average 2 å apart . the crystal structure of htbpc ( seq id no : 3 ) has been solved ( nikolov et al ., 1995 ). the peptide consists of two imperfect repeats that form a two - domain saddle shaped dna - binding protein with two - fold intramolecular symmetry . tbp binds dna with the concave underside of its “ saddle ” shape . the general transcription factor tfiib binds near the tbp / dna complex at the downstream end leaving the convex “ seat ” of the to saddle available for other intermolecular interactions . quasi - identical structures composed of basic helices and p sheets flank the seat of the saddle . mirror image helices h2 and h2 ′ are separated by distances on the order of 20 å . it is conceivable that the minimal activation motifs , described herein , simultaneously bind to two - fold related pseudo - identical recognition sites that may be separated by approximately 23 å . similar schemes can be devised to determine distances between active sites on other bivalent molecules or complexes . of particular interest are dimeric hormone receptors whose signaling activity depends on its association state . detailed knowledge of distances between active sites would allow for the rational design of agonist or antagonist drugs . protein preparation : htbpc was prepared according to nikolov et al ., 1996 and full length histidine - tagged htbp ( seq id no : 15 ) according to lee et al . [ lee , w . s ., c . c . kao , g . o . bryant , x . liu and a . j . berk . ( 1991 ) adenovirus ela activation domain binds the basic repeat in the tata box transcription factor cell 67 : 365 - 376 ]. glutathione s - transferase ( gst ) fusion proteins ( seq id no : 9 ) were prepared according to tanaka , 1996 . the preparation of gal4 - vp 16 is described by hori , r ., s . pyo and m . carey , 1995 . protease footprinting reveals a surface on transcription factor tfhb that serves as an interface for activators and co - activators . proc . nati . acad sci . usa . 92 ( 13 ): 6047 - 6051 . dna : tata sequence dna was prepared according to parvin et al . [ parvin , j . d ., r . j . mccormick , p . a . sharp , and d . e . fisher . 1995 . pre - bending of a promoter sequence enhances affinity for the tata - binding factor . nature . 373 : 724 - 727 ] with the exception that it was not circularized . a 50 base - pair double stranded oligo containing 2 gal 4 binding sites , synthesized and quantitated by gibcobrl , life technologies inc ., grand island , n . y ., was used as non - specific control dna . equal mass amounts of specific vs . non - specific dna were added . synthetic peptides : peptides were generated by f - moc synthesis and quantitated by amino acid analysis , analytical hplc and - mass spectroscopy . the preparation self - assembled monolayers : nta - sams were prepared according to sigal et al ., 1996 . a panel of incrementally different density nta surfaces was generated by serial dilution of a stock solution containing 11 . 4 % nta - thiol , relative to tri - ethylene glycol terminated thiol , into solutions containing the tri - ethylene glycol terminated thiol alone . total thiol concentration was kept constant at 1 mm . nta - sams were stored under argon for up to 1 week prior to use . background levels of binding were assessed by passing reactants over underivatized gst surfaces and subtracted . surface plasmon resonance : experiments were carried out in a biacore instrument at room temperature in phosphate buffered saline ( pbs ) ( 137 mm nacl ) running at a constant flow rate of 5 μl / min . sample injection volumes ( plugs ) were 35 μl . association and dissociation rate constants were extracted from the data with biaevaluation software , version 2 . 1 , assuming a pseudo first order kinetics model : a + b ⇄ ab . error rates were taken from the deviation of measurements among multiple experiments performed on surfaces of different nta densities with a range of protein concentrations and using several different protein preparations , of the same species , to account for variation of the active concentration of a component . statistical calculations : sulfur atoms bind to gold to form a face - centered hexagonal tiling pattern 4 . 99 å on edge . in an ordered monolayer , all the positions of the hexagon are occupied by a thiol . each vertex is shared by three hexagons , so there are three possible positions for thiol deposition per hexagon . if the thiol solution is doped with a derivatized species of thiol , such as ours is , the average number of nta - thiols deposited per some number of hexagons ( λ ), can be calculated , assuming poisson statistics , for a given nta - thiol concentration . ( it was assumed that the concentration of nta - thiol in solution was equal to its concentration in the sam ; see fig2 of sigal et al ., 1996 ). equation ( 1 ) of fig1 calculates how many hexagons , on average , must be filled before two nta - thiols are deposited . for a 3 . 8 % nta - thiol concentration in solution , relative to eg 3 - thiol , an average of 17 . 5 hexagons must be filled before 2 nta ligands appear . for a 5 . 7 % nta solution , 11 . 7 hexagons must be filled before an average of two nta ligands are deposited . the area of a hexagon 4 . 99 å on edge is 64 . 69 å 2 which is equal to the area of a square , 8 . 04 å on edge . 17 . 5 hexagons would occupy the same area as a square ( 17 . 5 × 8 . 04 2 ) ½å on edge , which equals 33 . 6 å . two nta ligands were arbitrarily placed in a square representing 17 . 5 hexagons either 33 . 6 å or 23 . 8 å apart ( see fig1 ). since there are equal numbers of nearest and next - nearest neighbors , the average of these two distances is a first order approximation of the average distance between ligands resulting from a random distribution . according to this model , nta ligands on sams formed from a 3 . 8 % nta - thiol solution would be an average of 29 å apart , while nta ligands in a sam formed from a 5 . 7 % nta - thiol solution would be 23 å apart . calculations were done to evaluate the contribution of clustering using poisson statistics . equation 2 calculates the probability , p , of having n nta ligands per unit area , where λ , equals the average number of ntas per unit area . equation 3 calculates the ratio of the probabilities of having one nta ligand to two nta ligands deposited per unit area . it is 17 - times more likely to get one nta than two , per unit area , for 3 . 8 % nta - thiol sams and 11 times more likely at 5 . 7 % nta concentration . all publications cited in this application are hereby incorporated by reference . the citation of any publication is for its disclosure prior to the filing date and should not be construed as an admission that the present invention is not entitled to antedate such publication by virtue of prior invention . it is to be understood that the above invention is not limited to the particular embodiments described which are meant to be for illustrative purposes only . variations and modifications of these embodiments may be made that are still included in the description of this invention and fall within the scope of the appended claims . c atg gat cag aac aac agc ctg cca cct tac gct cag ggc ttg gcc tcc 289 cct cag ggt gcc atg act ccc gga atc cct atc ttt agt cca atg atg 337 cct tat ggc act gga ctg acc cca cag cct att cag aac acc aat agt 385 ctg tct att ttg gaa gag caa caa agg cag cag cag caa caa caa cag 433 gtg gca gct gca gcc gtt cag cag tca acg tcc cag cag gca aca cag 577 gga acc tca ggc cag gca cca cag ctc ttc cac tca cag act ctc aca 625 act gca ccc ttg ccg ggc acc act cca ctg tat ccc tcc ccc atg act 673 ccc atg acc ccc atc act cct gcc acg 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