title: Single-base discrimination mediated by proofreading inert allele specific Primers.
abstract: The role of 3' exonuclease excision in DNA polymerization was evaluated for primer extension using inert allele specific primers with exonuclease-digestible ddNMP at their 3' termini. Efficient primer extension was observed in amplicons where the inert allele specific primers and their corresponding templates were mismatched. However, no primer-extended products were yielded by matched amplicons with inert primers. As a control, polymerase without proofreading activity failed to yield primer-extended products from inert primers regardless of whether the primers and templates were matched or mismatched. These data indicated that activation was undertaken for the inert allele specific primers through mismatch proofreading. Complementary to our previously developed SNP-operated on/off switch, in which DNA polymerization only occurs in matched amplicon, this new mutation detection assay mediated by exo(+) DNA polymerases has immediate applications in SNP analysis independently or in combination of the two assays.
authors.affiliation: SNP Institute, Nanhua University, Hengyang, China.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lin-Ling
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Steve S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D004260:DNA Repair; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000378:metabolism*; D005092:Exonucleases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D013698:Templates, Genetic
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase; D005092:Exonucleases