An allylic/acyclic adenosine nucleoside triphosphate for termination of DNA synthesis by DNA template-dependent polymerases.
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- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 27 (5) , 1271-1274
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/27.5.1271
Abstract
An allylic adenosine triphosphate analog (AATP) was tested as a substrate for commercially available DNA polymerases. All but one of the enzymes assayed incorporated AATP opposite thymidine (T) with concomitant termination of the elongation reaction. A concentration of only 1 microM was sufficient for complete termination of the polymerization reaction for a short template mediated by Ampli Taq DNA polymerase FS (Taq FS). This result suggests that AATP could be used as a 2',3'-dideoxyadenosine-5'-triphosphate (ddA) surrogate. Kinetics of incorporation revealed that AATP was 48 times less efficiently incorporated than ddA. Furthermore, AATP was used in dye-primer sequencing as a substitute for ddA.Keywords
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