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Lecture 2
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Nucleotide subunits
are linked together by
phosphodiester
bonds
Hydrophobic interactions
between planar bases
H-bonding
Hydrophobic interactions
(cooperative base stacking)
are destroyed by formamide, high pH
(NaOH), high temperature
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supercoiled
relaxed
DNA Synthesis
Requirements
1. Enzyme: DNA Polymerase
2. DNA Template
3. 3 OH (primer of DNA or
RNA)
4. Deoxynucleoside
triphosphates: dATP, dGTP,
dCTP, dTTP
DNA
DNA Synthesis
H
H
Incoming dNTP
animation
PPi
2P
function
polymerase
synthesis
exonuclease
editing
proof-reading
exonuclease
primer
removal
5
3
3
5
5
3
growing
3
Discontinuous DNA Replication
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The Solution
PCR Animation