Table S1 - Replication Protein A (RPA) Hampers the Processive Action of APOBEC3G Cytosine Deaminase on Single-Stranded DNA

Analysis of mutations introduced by APOBEC3G into gapped DNA substrate in vitro. Thirty-nine mutant clones obtained in one experiment are shown. Numbers in “Substitutions” column indicate nucleotide positions in the URA3 ORF. Track size is defined as the distance (bp) between first and last substitutions. If APOBEC3G works in distributive fashion, then the frequencies of clones with certain number of substitutions should follow the Poisson distribution. We have found, on the contrary, that the observed distribution is strikingly different from the expected Poisson distribution (p<10−7 according to the χ2 test for the data of the experiment presented in the table), confirming that tracts of mutations found result from processive action of APOBEC3G.
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