The present disclosure relates generally to stapled peptides, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which are useful for preventing and/or treating herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) processive DNA synthesis, propagation, and/or infection in a subject. The present disclosure further provides methods for treating herpes simplex keratitis in a subject

Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds, modified nucleotides, compositions, and methods of using the same.

Provided herein, in some embodiments, are enzymatic methods for producing an oligonucleotide comprising phosphoramidate-linked nucleotides, and compositions comprising the oligonucleotide thus produced.

High-fidelity, high-throughput nucleic acid sequencing enables healthcare practitioners and patients to gain insight into genetic variants and potential health risks. However, previous methods of nucleic acid sequencing often introduces sequencing errors (for example, mutations that arise during the preparation of a nucleic acid library, during amplification, or sequencing). Provided herein are sequencing adapters comprising a nondegenerate or variable length molecular barcode and compositions comprising a plurality of sequencing adapters, which can be useful for sequencing nucleic acids. Further provided are methods of using the sequencing adapters, including methods of sequencing nucleic acids, methods of identifying an error in a nucleic acid sequence, and methods of determining the number of nucleic acid molecules in a library.

Provided herein are modified Archaeal family B polymerases derived from the Archaeal microorganism Thermococcus sp. EP1 that exhibit improved incorporation of nucleotide analogues utilized in DNA sequences.

Described is a nucleic acid ligand, a mixture thereof, and the use thereof. The mixture contains two or more nucleic acid polymerase substrate analogs. The nucleic acid polymerase substrate analog is a single nucleic acid molecule or nucleic acid molecule analog which forms complementary pairing within a molecule, or a single or two nucleic acid molecules or nucleic acid molecule analogs which form complementary pairing between molecules; and a structure formed thereby has the characteristics of a nucleic acid polymerase substrate. The nucleic acid polymerase substrate analog is suitable for all polymerases and can be widely used in the field of nucleic acid amplification. The 3′ end of the nucleic acid ligand has a modification which inhibits the extension thereof.

This disclosure relates to thermophilic family B DNA polymerases comprising a neutral amino acid residue at a certain position near the C-terminus of the catalytic domain, which corresponds to a position occupied by a basic amino acid residue in wild-type Pfu polymerase. Related uses, methods, and compositions are also provided. In some embodiments, the polymerases comprise a 3′-5′ exonuclease domain and/or a sequence non-specific dsDNA binding domain.

The invention relates to the use of a polysaccharide having at least four saccharide units, such as stachyose, as a glass-forming agent for the freeze-drying of a reaction mixture comprising an enzyme. In particular, the enzyme is a polymerase useful in a nucleic acid amplification reaction such as a Polymerase Chain Reaction.

Compositions comprising such polysaccharides as well as methods for preparing them, kits containing them and methods for using them form further aspects of the invention.

The present invention relates to DNA polymerases. In particular, the present invention relates to heat labile DNA polymerases of marine origin, having high polymerase activity, strand displacement activity and 3-5′ exonuclease activity. Furthermore, the present invention provides heat labile DNA polymerases substantially without strand-displacement activity.

The present invention relates to recombinant DNA technology, in particular to methods for assembling two or more double stranded (ds) nucleic acid molecules with overlapping terminal sequences. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of a thermolabile DNA polymerase II derived 3′-5′ exonuclease isolated from Moritella viscoa and a thermolabile DNA polymerase I of marine origin in multi DNA assembly processes.