HIGH FIDELITY DNA-SYNTHESIS BY THE THERMUS-AQUATICUS DNA-POLYMERASE
HIGH FIDELITY DNA-SYNTHESIS BY THE THERMUS-AQUATICUS DNA-POLYMERASE
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DOI:
10.1093/nar/18.13.3739
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发表时间:
1990-07-11
影响因子:
14.9
通讯作者:
KUNKEL, TA
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作者:
ECKERT, KA;KUNKEL, TA
We demonstrate that despite lacking a 3''.fwdarw.5'' proofreading exonuclease, the Thermus aquaticus (Taq) DNA polymerase can catalyze highly accurate DNA synthesis in vitro. Under defined reaction conditions, the error rate per nucleotide polymerized at 70.degree. C can be as low as 10-5 for base substitution errors and 10-6 for frameshift errors. The frequency of mutations produced during a single round of DNA synthesis of the lac Z.alpha. gene by Taq polymerase responds to changes in dNTP concentration, pH, and the concentration of MgCl2 relative to the total concentration of deoxynucleotide triphosphates present in the reaction. Both base substitution and frameshift error rates of