Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages 1447-1455Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.08.028
Keywords
Bst exo- DNA polymerase; Cofactors; Isothermal amplification; Rolling cirde amplification (RCA); Multimerization; Molecular docking simulations
Funding
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) [19-34-90010\19]
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Over the last two decades, the isothermal amplification has become actively used for nucleic acids analysis. To perform isothermal techniques, DNA polyme rases with strand-displacement activity are needed, and Bst exo- polymerase is one of the most widely used. However, Bst exo- is prone to non-specific DNA synthesis (e.g., DNA multimerization) occurring in the absence of the DNA target of interest. Here, we report on the activity of Bst exo- in the presence of Mg2+, Mn2+, Ca2+, Cd2+, Co2+, Cu2+, Ni2+ and Zn(2+ )in the model molecular systems which included amplification of circular and linear DNA templates; conditions providing effective and highly specific isothermal amplification were determined. It was found that amplification can proceed not only with Mg2+ but with Mn2+, Ca2+, Cd2+ and Cu(2+ )depending on the type of Bst exo- polymerase and the buffer. Manganese ions turned out to be the most suitable alternative cofactor, which prevents multimerization in some buffers. Molecular docking simulations showed the highest stability for the quaternary 'polymerase-DNA-triphosphate-cations' complexes containing Mg2+ and Mn2+, and the moderate one for complexes with Ca2+, Cd2+ and Cu2+. The frequency of nucleotide misincorporation increased in the following row: Mg2+ approximate to Mn2+ Cd2+ <= Ca2+ < C2+<< CU2+. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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