Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
INHIBITION OF NONSPECIFIC POLYMERASE ACTIVITY USING POLY(ASPARTIC) ACID AS A MODEL ANIONIC POLYELECTROLYTE
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Year of publication2021
Языканглийский
  • Kamalov Marat Ilyasovich, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Assol R. Sakhabutdinova, Marat I. Kamalov, Diana V. Salakhieva, Ayrat R. Mavzyutov, Ravil R. Garafutdinov, Inhibition of nonspecific polymerase activity using Poly(Aspartic) acid as a model anionic polyelectrolyte, Analytical Biochemistry, Volume 628, 2021, 114267, ISSN 0003-2697,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2021.114267.
    Annotation DNA polymerases with strand-displacement activity allow to amplify nucleic acids under isothermal conditions but often lead to undesirable by-products. Here, we report the increase of specificity of isothermal amplification in the presence of poly (aspartic) acids (pAsp). We hypothesized that side reactions occur due to the binding of the phosphate backbone of synthesized DNA strands with surface amino groups of the polymerase, and weakly acidic polyelectrolytes could shield polymerase molecules from DNA and thereby inhibit nonspecific amplification. Suppression of nonspecific polymerase activity by pAsp was studied on multimerization as a model side reaction. It was found that a low concentration of pAsp (0.01%) provides successful amplification of specific DNA targets. The inhibitory effect of pAsp is due to its polymeric structure since aspartic acid did affect neither specific nor nonspecific amplification. Strongly acidic polyelectrolyte heparin does not possess the same selectivity since it suppresses any DNA synthesis. The applicability of pAsp to prevent nonspecific reactions and reliable detection of the specific target has been demonstrated on the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus using Loop-mediated isothermal amplification.
    Keywords Isothermal amplification, specificity, multimerization, poly(aspartic) acid, coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
    The name of the journal Analytical Biochemistry
    URL https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85108239605&doi=10.1016%2fj.ab.2021.114267&partnerID=40&md5=729b1903102dc4060b8e1351a1a6018c
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