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Dideoxynucleotide
Chain-elongating inhibitor of DNA polymerase / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dideoxynucleotides are chain-elongating inhibitors of DNA polymerase, used in the Sanger method for DNA sequencing.[1] They are also known as 2',3' because both the 2' and 3' positions on the ribose lack hydroxyl groups, and are abbreviated as ddNTPs (ddGTP, ddATP, ddTTP and ddCTP).[2]
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