| CPC C12N 9/1276 (2013.01) [C12N 15/1096 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6848 (2013.01); C12Y 207/07049 (2013.01); C12N 2310/321 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/16 (2013.01)] | 24 Claims |

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1. A method of performing 3′ extension of a nucleic acid in an ordered two-template relay (OTTR) reaction with a non-retroviral reverse transcriptase (RT), wherein the method further comprises:
(a) addition of a non-canonical nucleotide to the reaction mixture to suppress excessive non-templated cDNA 3′ extension in RT reaction conditions without inhibiting templated DNA synthesis;
(b) addition of a modified passenger strand of a primer duplex to the reaction mixture;
(c) labeling of input templates with ddATP then ddGTP by sequential terminal transferase (TT); or
(d) suppression of unwanted products by termination of template copying by adding to the reaction mixture a Cy5 5′ extension of the 3′ acceptor template, primer, and/or other oligonucleotides present except those of the input template pool,
wherein said OTTR reaction exhibits improved reaction yield or suppression of unwanted products in the reaction.
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