Description: 9°N™m DNA Polymerase is a thermophilic DNA polymerase that has been genetically engineered to have a decreased 3'→ 5' proofreading exonuclease activity (1-5% of the wildtype). 9°Nm DNA Polymerase features a half-life of 6.7 hours at 95°C.
Source: An E. coli strain that carries the 9°N (E143D) DNA Polymerase gene, (2) a genetically engineered form of the native DNA polymerase from the extremely thermophilic marine archaea Thermococcusspecies 9°N-7. The archaea was isolated from a submarine thermal vent, at a depth of 2,500 meters, 9° north of the equator at the East Pacific Rise (1).
1X ThermoPol Reaction Buffer Pack: 20 mM Tris-HCl 10 mM (NH4)2SO4 10 mM KCl 2 mM MgSO4 0.1 % Triton X-100
pH 8.8 @ 25°C
Unit Definition: One unit is defined as the amount of enzyme that will incorporate 10 nmol of dNTP into acid-insoluble material in a total reaction volume of 50 μl in 30 minutes at 75°C in 1X ThermoPol Reaction Buffer with 200��M dNTPs including [3H]-dTTP and 15 nM primed single-stranded M13mp18.
Concentration: 2,000 units/ml
Storage Conditions: 10 mM Tris-HCl 100 mM KCl 1 mM Dithiothreitol 0.1 mM EDTA 50% Glycerol
pH 7.4 @ 25°C
Storage Temperature: -20°C
Notes General notes:
Diluent buffer (NEB #B8005S) is available for making dilutions of 9°Nm DNA Polymerase.
Additional buffer packs for this product are also available (NEB #B9004S). Each buffer pack contains 4 vials of 10X ThermoPol Reaction Buffer (1.5 ml each) and 1 vial of 100 mM MgS04.
Usage notes:
It is suggested that the number of units be optimized with each primer:template.
MgS04 is usually optimal at 2 mM, although occasionally a 1 mM level is better. For such reactions, we offer an ThermoPol II (Mg-free) Reaction Buffer Pack (NEB #B9005S) to which 1 mM MgS04 can be added.
Quality Control for Current Lot Quality control values for a specific lot can be found on the datacard which accompanies each product.
Quality Assurance Statement: Purified free of contaminating endonucleases and exonucleases.
Endonuclease Assay: Incubation of a 50 μl reaction in ThemoPol Reaction Buffer supplemented with 400 μM each dNTP containing a minimum of 20 units of 9° North modified DNA Polymerase with 1 μg of supercoiled ΦX174 DNA for 4 hours at either 37°C or 75°C results in < 10% conversion to the nicked form as determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.
9°Nm DNA Polymerase crystals (Ira Schildkraut and Rebecca Kucera, New�England Biolabs, Inc.)
References
Dr. Holger Jannasch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1991, unpublished observations.
Southworth, M.W. et al. (1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 5281-5285.
Rodriquez, A.C. et al. (2000) J. Mol. Biol., 299, 447-462.