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DNA Polymerase Activity Assay Using Near-infrared Fluorescent Labeled DNA Visualized by Acrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
Published on: October 6, 2017
Real-time detection of polymerase activity using supercritical angle fluorescence
Alexander Krieg1, Thomas Ruckstuhl, Stephan Laib
1Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We investigated the incorporation efficiencies of different fluorescently labelled dNTPs with polymerases by complementary strand synthesis. For this reason single stranded DNA was immobilized on a coverslip and the increase of fluorescence due to the synthesis of the corresponding strand with tagged dNTPs was detected with a supercritical angle fluorescence biosensor in real-time. By comparison of the observed signal intensities it was possible to conclude that the system Cy5-dCTP-Klenow (exonuclease free) fragment gives the best incorporation yield of the investigated enzymes and dNTPs.
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