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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2009 Sep 1;48(34):8271–8278. doi: 10.1021/bi900777s

Table 5.

Incorporation of “low fidelity” dNTPs by BF and pol α.

dNTP Template kcat
(min−1)
KM
(µM)
kcat/KM
(µM−1 min−1)
Pol α
G 6.4 ± 1.0 25 ± 11 0.25
6NO2dBTP I 4.8 ± 0.2 15 ± 3 0.32
8-OxoG 1.8 ± 0.2 7.0 ± 4.0 0.25
BF
G 20 ± 0.3 43 ± 2 0.46
6CF3dBTP I 23 ± 3 90 ± 20 0.25
8-OxoG 4.0 ± 0.4 130 ± 60 0.30