Long & Accurate PCR

[Duncan Clark]

In article: <3adocf$pm0 at mark.ucdavis.edu>  fzestabr at bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu (Elizabeth Estabrook) writes:

> However one of the things that came out in the seminar is that even 
> though the polmerase enzyme mix has Vent (3'-5' exonuclease activity) 
> that the error was still about the same as with just TAQ alone. 

That's interesting 'cos Wayme Barnes showed that his KlenTaq/Pfu cocktail
(I think that is what is in Takara's kit) had 10 x better fidelity 
than Taq and 2x better than Pfu. The kit from PE is full length Tth 
HB8 pol plus Vent. I'd like to see a comparison by Wayne Barnes. He is 
one of the few independant labs set up to do fidelity tests.

Duncan
 
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