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+The reverse transcriptase
+=========================
-Additives that increase reaction performance:
+_(redaction in progress)_
+
+## Additives that increase reaction performance:
- Actinomycin D ([[Perocchi et al., 2007|biblio/17897965]]).
- - T4 bacteriophage gene 32 protein (T4gp32, [[Kenzelmann _et al._, 2004|biblio/15028277]], [[Piché _et al._, 2005|biblio/16461948]]).
+ - [[T4 bacteriophage gene 32 protein|ssbp]] (T4gp32, [[Kenzelmann _et al._, 2004|biblio/15028277]],
+ [[Piché _et al._, 2005|biblio/16461948]]).
-Reverse-transcriptases have a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity.
+## DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity.
- It is utilised in [[template_switching]] methods to add linkers to first-strand cDNAs.
- It is also a source of antisense artefacts when the RT makes a second-strand cDNA
but not RNA-dependent polymerase activity and is used to suppress these
artefacts ([[Perocchi et al., 2007|biblio/17897965]], [[Kanamori-Katayama et al., 2011|biblio/21596820]]).
-Reverse-transcriptases tolerate terminal mismatches: [[Mizuno et al., 1999|biblio/9973624]].
+## Reverse-transcriptases tolerate terminal mismatches:
+
+ - Reported by [[Mizuno et al., 1999|biblio/9973624]].
+ - Utilised in [[Arnaud et al., 2015|biblio/27071605]] to reduce priming or
+ ribosomal or hemoglobin RNA.
-Reverse-transcription primers:
+## Reverse-transcription primers:
- "N15" random pentadecamers: [[Stangegaard et al., 2006|biblio/16708763]].
- Multi-targeted primers (MTP): [[Adomas et al., 2010|biblio/20716356]].
- "Not-so random" (NSR) primers: [[Armour et al., 2009|biblio/19668204]].
- - ... and many more (pseudo-random, ...)
-
-[[Single-strand binding proteins|ssbp]] are sometimes added to improve reverse
-transcriptions.
+ - "Pseudo-random" primers: [[Arnaud et al., 2015|biblio/27071605]].
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