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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 11, Pages 2217-2222Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.11.2217
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The fidelity of the yeast retrotransposon Ty1 reverse transcriptase (RT) was determined by an assay based on gel electrophoresis. Steady-state kinetics analyses of deoxyribonucleotide (dNTP) incorporation at a defined primer-template site indicate that Ty1 RT misincorporates dNTP at a frequency of 0.45 x 10(-5) for the A(t):A mispair in which dATP is misincorporated opposite a template A to 6.27 x 10(-5) for the C-t:A mispair. The G(t):G and T-t:T mispairs are formed with very low efficiency. The fidelity parameters of Ty1 RT do not depend on whether RNA or DNA are copied. Relative to lentiviral RTs (HIV-1, HIV-2 or EIAV) Ty1 RT is similar to 10-fold less error prone, Our data also show that the Ty1 RT is able to recapitulate two error-generating mechanisms: extension of mismatches and non-templated addition of nucleotides at the end of a blunt-end primer-template.
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