PCR Design

[Aawara Chowdhury]

In <tkyWg.529$Mr7.4 at newsfe04.lga>,
 DK <dk at no.email.thankstospam.net> wrote:

> In article <4ovkkpFgddqjU1 at individual.net>, "Jose de las Heras" <josenet at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>although an intermediate cloning in something like pGEM-T makes things 
>>easy... assuming the polymerase you're using adds Ts at high frequency.
>
> Speaking of which: What is expected % of PCR products with added Ts
> overgangs when using Taq? The question recently poped up discussing 
> a particular experiment and I relized I have no idea. So, what is the 
> frequency? 10%? 50%? Nearly 100%? 
>

The propensity of Taq to create products with a single base non-templated
3' dT overhang is nil.  But close to 100% of the products will have a single 
base non-templated 3' dA overhang.

AC
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