Here we present a deep sequencing approach that provides an unbiased determination of nascent 3'-termini as well as mutational profiles of single-stranded DNA molecules. The main application is the characterization of nascent retroviral complementary DNAs (cDNAs), the intermediates generated during the process of retroviral reverse transcription.
Pollpeter, D., Sobala, A., Malim, M. H. Determining 3'-Termini and Sequences of Nascent Single-Stranded Viral DNA Molecules during HIV-1 Reverse Transcription in Infected Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (143), e58715, doi:10.3791/58715 (2019).