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Enhanced ribonucleotide incorporation by an O-helix mutant of Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase I.
Mutation research - 4 Apr 2001
Ogawa M, Tosaka A, Ito Y, Yoshida S, Suzuki M
Abstract excerpt
The O-helix of DNA polymerases has been implicated in substrate discrimination and replication fidelity. In this study, wild-type Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase I (Taq pol I) and an O-helix mutant A661E was examined for their ability to discriminate between ribonucleotides and deoxyribonucleotides. Steady-state nucleotide extension kinetics were carried out using a template cytidine and each nucleotide dNTP and...
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