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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 14, Pages 3118-3129Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf417
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We compared the thermal stabilities of wild-type recombinant avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) and Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MLV) reverse transcriptase (RT) with those of mutants of the recombinant enzymes lacking RNase H activity. They differed in resistance to thermal inactivation at elevated temperatures in the presence of an RNA/DNA template-primer. RNase H-minus RTs retained the ability to efficiently synthesize cDNA at much higher temperatures. We show that the structure of the template-primer has a critical bearing on protection of RT from thermal inactivation. RT RNase H activity rapidly alters the structure of the template-primer to forms less tightly bound by RT and thus less able to protect the enzyme at elevated temperatures. We also found that when comparing wild-type or mutant AMV RT with the respective M-MLV RT, the avian enzymes retained more DNA synthetic activity at elevated temperatures than murine RTs. Enzyme, template-primer interaction again played the most significant role in producing these differences. AMV RT binds much tighter to template-primer and has a much greater tendency to remain bound during cDNA synthesis than M-MLV RT and therefore is better protected from heat inactivation.
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