Half life of TdT

[Dr. Duncan Clark]

In article <l03130307b45a38c6293c@[129.127.90.187]>, alex dobrovic
<adobrovic at medicine.adelaide.edu.au> writes
>Does anyone know what the half life of terminal deoxy transferase is? Can
>you use 20U for 30 minutes instead 40U for 15 minutes? Or are longer tails
>added to fewer substrates?
>
>Regards
>
>Alex
>
>
>adobrovi at medicine.adelaide.edu.au
>
>

You can tail for 90mins if you wish. A lot of RACE protocols use that
long. For more info. On length of tails have a look at Methods in
Enzymology v 100 pp96-116. 

Duncan
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