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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Biol Chem. 2005 Jan 10;280(13):12190–12200. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M412859200

Table II.

Pre-steady-state kinetic parameters of HIV-1 and MuLV RTs for misincorporation

dNTP RT Kinetic parameters (fold differences)a
kpol Kd kpol/Kd Misinsertion fidelityb
s−1 μm μm−1 s−1
DTTP (correct) HIV-1c  21.7 ± 0.7    1.1 ± 0.1 19.7
MuLV  20.0 ± 0.6 (×1.1)   44.2 ± 4.0 (×40.2)  0.45 (×43.8)
DGTP (incorrect) HIV-1c 0.037 ± 0.001   13.8 ± 2.2  2.7 × 10−3  7296.3
MuLV 0.020 ± 0.002 (×1.9) 1178.3 ± 169.2 (×85.4)  1.7 × 10−5 (×158.8) 26470.6 (×3.6)
DCTP (incorrect) HIV-1c 0.027 ± 0.001  117.3 ± 7.3  2.3 × 10−4 85652.2
MuLV 0.032 ± 0.002 (×1.2) 1546.5 ± 176.7 (×13.2)  2.1 × 10−5 (×10.9) 21428.6 (×0.25)
a

Fold differences of MuLV RT relative to HIV-1 RT.

b

(kpol/Kd)correct/(kpol/Kd)incorrect.

c

Data published previously (39).