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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Illumina Cambridge Limited, Essex, GB;
Inventors:
Geoffrey Paul Smith, Essex, GB;
David Mark Dunstan Bailey, Essex, GB;
Raquel Maria Sanches-Kuiper, Essex, GB;
Hardold Swerdlow, Essex, GB;
David James Earnshaw, Essex, GB;
Assignee:
Illumina Cambridge Limited, Nr Saffron Walden, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/12 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/1252 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to modified polymerase enzymes which exhibit improved incorporation of nucleotide analogs bearing substituents at the 3' position of the sugar moiety that are larger in size than the naturally occurring 3′ hydroxyl group. Also described are methods of using the polymerases to incorporate nucleotides into polynucleotides, particularly in the context of DNA sequencing.