Reasons and Limits of Substrate Activity of Modified L-dNTP in DNA Biosynthesis

Abstract
Theoretical and experimental analysis of interaction of modified D- and L- dNTP as substrates for template-dependent and template-independent DNA polymerases was performed. It is shown that if the modified nucleoside 5′-triphosphates do not contain a substituent in position 3′ DNA chains can be extended by both strereoisomeric series with the same kinetic parameters. But the presence of even a 3′- hydroxy group in L-dNTP prevents their incorporation into the DNA chain.