Talk:Polymerase stuttering

flawed example
Shouldn't the new sequence be the reverse complement of the old one?

-k —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ketil (talk • contribs) 10:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, it should. It's supposed to look like this: http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/courses/EEB600A-2003/lectures/lecture26/figs/slip.jpg

Here's the flawed version if anybody wants to fix it. An example of the process is denoted below, with P representing a polymerase:

Step 1 --->P ATCGTAGCAAATCGTAA } Original strand ATCGT } Growing new strand

Step 2 --->P ATCGTAGCAAATCGTAA } Original strand ATCGTAGCAAATCGTAA } Growing new strand

Step 3 P<- } Polymerase slips back one ATCGTAGCAAATCGTAA } Original strand ATCGTAGCAAATCGTAA } Growing new strand

Step 4 ->P } Transcribes another A  ATCGTAGCAAATCGTAA  } Original strand ATCGTAGCAAATCGTAAA } Growing new strand

Note: Step 3 & 4 is repeated and new nucleotides are added to the 3' end. --Rajah (talk) 04:40, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

mistake in references
There is a mistake in the references. The original title of the Mauro et al. paper is: "Analysis of ribosomal shunting during translation initiation in eukaryotic mRNAs." not "Analysis of polymerase...", and I am not sure whether it concerns polymerases at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.87.28.249 (talk) 16:51, 10 December 2011 (UTC)