Temperature-dependent template switching during in vitro cDNA synthesis by the AMV-reverse transcriptase.
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Reverse transcriptase template switching has been invoked to explain several aspects of retroviral replication and recombination, and has been reported in vitro for the Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV) reverse transcriptase. During in vitro cDNA synthesis, the avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) reverse transcriptase can switch from one template to another in a homology-dependent and temperature-dependent manner. Chimeric cDNA molecules are generated within 30 min at high incubation temperatures, with an increasing efficiency from 42 degrees C to 50 degrees C. Such products are detectable only after much longer incubation times when primer extension reactions are carried out at lower temperatures (90 min at 37 degrees C).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Nucleic acids research
دوره 20 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992