ΔTaq DNA Polymerase

Description

Precision Biosystems’s ΔTaq^TM is a chemically modified hot-start Taq DNA polymerase useful for preventing or minimizing nonspecific DNA amplification in PCR. Modified using a novel modifying reagent, Precision Biosystems DeltaTaq represents a major improvement over AmpliTaq Gold and other similar chemically-modified hot-start enzymes by having a faster activation time (Takes less than 2 minutes to activate, much faster than AmpliTaq™ Gold and HotStar™ Taq), better shelf-life and alkaline activation condition optimal for both Taq activity and specific amplification. Under standard hot-start conditions (i.e., 94 °C in pH 8-9 Tris), ΔTaq^TM regains both the 5′-3′ polymerase and 5′-exonuclease activities within two minutes. Precision Biosystems ΔTaq^TM is also superior to antibody-based hot-start DNA polymerases due to its complete suppression of enzyme activity at room temperature, near full recovery of enzyme activity following activation and lack of animal DNA contaminants. In addition, hot-start ΔTaq^TM is also significantly more economical to manufacture than antibody-based hot-start enzymes.

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