When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m.
... probes, LDR can reliably detect single-base differences. The original creators of this technique visualized...fidelity mean for a ligase?
DNA ligases generally prefer fully Watson-Crick base-paired dsDNA substrates.... The structural/mechanistic reason for this differential is not known for certain, but may have to do...This methodology has been used to rapidly screen buffer conditions for Taq DNA Ligase and their effect ...upstream probes and four down-stream probes, each differing only in the base at the ligation junction. Thus...Sixteen separate pools were prepared, each with a different complement strand covering all 16 possible NN ...each possible pairing resulted in a product of a different length, with products identifiable and quantifiable...