title: Real time measurements of elongation by a reverse transcriptase using surface plasmon resonance.
abstract: A rapid direct assay for polymerase-induced elongation along a given template is an obligate requirement for understanding the processivity of polymerization and the mode of action of drugs and inhibitors on this process. Surface plasmon resonance can be used to follow the association and the dissociation rates of a given reverse transcriptase on DNA.RNA and DNA.DNA hybrids immobilized on a biotin-streptavidin surface. The addition of nucleotides complementary to the template strand produces an increase in the local mass, as deduced from an increase in the measured signal, due to elongation of the primer strand that allows an estimation of both the extent and rate of the polymerization process. The terminator drug 3'-deoxy-3'-azidothymidine triphosphate completely abolishes the increase in signal as would be expected from an inhibition of elongation. This technique provides a sensitive assay for the affinities of different polymerases for specific templates and for the effects of terminators of the elongation process.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Physiochimie des Macromolécules Biologiques (URA 1149 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buckle
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Negroni
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Buc
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D001710:Biotin; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D054306:Dideoxynucleotides; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008979:Moloney murine leukemia virus / Q000201:enzymology; D009692:Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D012194:RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000378:metabolism*; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D019809:Streptavidin; D013942:Thymine Nucleotides / Q000494:pharmacology; D015215:Zidovudine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D054306:Dideoxynucleotides; D009692:Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D013942:Thymine Nucleotides; D015215:Zidovudine; C052873:zidovudine triphosphate; D001710:Biotin; D004247:DNA; D019809:Streptavidin; D012194:RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase