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Contribution of partial charge interactions and base stacking to the efficiency of primer extension at and beyond abasic sites in DNA.
Biochemistry - 19 Jun 2012
Xia Shuangluo, Vashishtha Ashwani, Bulkley David, Eom Soo Hyun, Wang Jimin, Konigsberg William H
Abstract excerpt
During DNA synthesis, base stacking and Watson-Crick (WC) hydrogen bonding increase the stability of nascent base pairs when they are in a ternary complex. To evaluate the contribution of base stacking to the incorporation efficiency of dNTPs when a DNA polymerase encounters an abasic site, we varied the penultimate base pairs (PBs) adjacent to the abasic site using all 16 possible combinations. We then...
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