... Substrate recognition and ®delity of strand joining by an archaeal DNA ligase Masaru Nakatani1,2, Satoshi Ezaki1,2, Haruyuki Atomi1,2 and Tadayuki Imanaka1,21Department of Synthetic ... release of free AMP from the DNA adenylate[2,5,6,13].Catalytic activity of DNA ligase is dependent onappropriate divalent cations and DNA substrates. Ingeneral, DNA ligases can utilize M g2+ and ... of oligonucleotides recognized by LigTkas DNA substrates. At 80 °C, LigTkcould ligateoligonucleotides of nine nucleotides or more as L -DNA with an R -DNA of 30 nucleotides, and an R -DNA of...