Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on June 18, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkm395
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Nucleic Acid Enzymes |
Enzymatic incorporation of a third nucleobase pair
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Received March 2, 2007. Revised April 17, 2007. Accepted May 1, 2007.
DNA polymerases are identified that copy a non-standard nucleotide pair joined by a hydrogen bonding pattern different from the patterns joining the dA:T and dG:dC pairs. 6-Amino-5-nitro-3-(1'-ß-D-2'-deoxyribofuranosyl)-2(1H)-pyridone (dZ) implements the non-standard ‘small’ donor–donor–acceptor (pyDDA) hydrogen bonding pattern. 2-Amino-8-(1'-ß-D-2'-deoxyribofuranosyl)-imidazo[1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)-one (dP) implements the ‘large’ acceptor–acceptor–donor (puAAD) pattern. These nucleobases were designed to present electron density to the minor groove, density hypothesized to help determine specificity for polymerases. Consistent with this hypothesis, both dZTP and dPTP are accepted by many polymerases from both Families A and B. Further, the dZ:dP pair participates in PCR reactions catalyzed by Taq, Vent (exo–) and Deep Vent (exo–) polymerases, with 94.4%, 97.5% and 97.5%, respectively, retention per round. The dZ:dP pair appears to be lost principally via transition to a dC:dG pair. This is consistent with a mechanistic hypothesis that deprotonated dZ (presenting a pyDAA pattern) complements dG (presenting a puADD pattern), while protonated dC (presenting a pyDDA pattern) complements dP (presenting a puAAD pattern). This hypothesis, grounded in the Watson–Crick model for nucleobase pairing, was confirmed by studies of the pH-dependence of mismatching. The dZ:dP pair and these polymerases, should be useful in dynamic architectures for sequencing, molecular-, systems- and synthetic-biology.
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