Relief of DNA Polymerase Stop(s) Due to Severity of Secondary Structure of Single-Stranded DNA Template during DNA Sequencing

1994 ◽  
Vol 217 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.S. Ranu
1998 ◽  
Vol 273 (33) ◽  
pp. 21332-21341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoko Maki ◽  
Keiji Hashimoto ◽  
Takeshi Ohara ◽  
Akio Sugino

F1000Research ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikash Bhardwaj ◽  
Kulbhushan Sharma

Conventionally, in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR), oligonucleotide primers bind to the template DNA in an antiparallel complementary way and the template DNA is amplified as it is. Here we describe an approach in which the first primer binds in a parallel complementary orientation to the single-stranded DNA, leading to synthesis in a parallel direction. Further reactions happened in a conventional way leading to the synthesis of PCR product having polarity opposite to the template used. This is the first study showing that synthesis of DNA can happen also in a parallel direction. We report that from a single-stranded DNA template, two different but related PCR products can be synthesized.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amir ◽  
Sabeera Afzal ◽  
Alia Ishaq

Polymerases were revealed first in 1970s. Most important to the modest perception the enzyme responsible for nuclear DNA replication that was pol , for DNA repair pol and for mitochondrial DNA replication pol  DNA construction and renovation done by DNA polymerases, so directing both the constancy and discrepancy of genetic information. Replication of genome initiate with DNA template-dependent fusion of small primers of RNA. This preliminary phase in replication of DNA demarcated as de novo primer synthesis which is catalyzed by specified polymerases known as primases. Sixteen diverse DNA-synthesizing enzymes about human perspective are devoted to replication, reparation, mutilation lenience, and inconsistency of nuclear DNA. But in dissimilarity, merely one DNA polymerase has been called in mitochondria. It has been suggest that PrimPol is extremely acting the roles by re-priming DNA replication in mitochondria to permit an effective and appropriate way replication to be accomplished. Investigations from a numeral of test site have significantly amplified our appreciative of the role, recruitment and regulation of the enzyme during DNA replication. Though, we are simply just start to increase in value the versatile roles that play PrimPol in eukaryote.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bogutzki ◽  
Natalie Naue ◽  
Lidia Litz ◽  
Andreas Pich ◽  
Ute Curth

Abstract During DNA replication in E. coli, a switch between DnaG primase and DNA polymerase III holoenzyme (pol III) activities has to occur every time when the synthesis of a new Okazaki fragment starts. As both primase and the χ subunit of pol III interact with the highly conserved C-terminus of single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), it had been proposed that the binding of both proteins to SSB is mutually exclusive. Using a replication system containing the origin of replication of the single-stranded DNA phage G4 (G4ori) saturated with SSB, we tested whether DnaG and pol III can bind concurrently to the primed template. We found that the addition of pol III does not lead to a displacement of primase, but to the formation of higher complexes. Even pol III-mediated primer elongation by one or several DNA nucleotides does not result in the dissociation of DnaG. About 10 nucleotides have to be added in order to displace one of the two primase molecules bound to SSB-saturated G4ori. The concurrent binding of primase and pol III is highly plausible, since even the SSB tetramer situated directly next to the 3′-terminus of the primer provides four C-termini for protein-protein interactions.


2008 ◽  
Vol 283 (13) ◽  
pp. 8274-8282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gali Arad ◽  
Ayal Hendel ◽  
Claus Urbanke ◽  
Ute Curth ◽  
Zvi Livneh

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 1588-1597 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Denhardt ◽  
Makoto Iwaya ◽  
Grant McFadden ◽  
Gerald Schochetman

Evidence is presented that in Escherichia coli made permeable to nucleotides by exposure to toluene, the synthesis of a DNA chain complementary to the infecting single-stranded DNA of bacteriophage [Formula: see text] requires ATP as well as the four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates. This synthesis results in the formation of the parental double-stranded replicative-form (RF) molecule. The ATP is not required simply to prevent degradation of the ribonucleoside or deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates; it can be partially substituted for by other ribonucleoside triphosphates.No single one of the known E. coli DNA polymerases appears to be uniquely responsible in vivo for the formation of the parental RF. Since [Formula: see text] replicates well in strains lacking all, or almost all, of the in-vitro activities of DNA polymerases I and II, neither of these two enzymes would seem essential; and in a temperature-sensitive E. coli mutant (dnaEts) deficient in DNA polmerase-I activity and possessing a temperature-sensitive DNA polymerase III, the viral single-stranded DNA is efficiently incorporated into an RF molecule at the restrictive temperature. In contrast, both RF replication and progeny single-stranded DNA synthesis are dependent upon DNA polymerase III activity.


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