Thermostable enzyme promoting the fidelity of thermostable DNA polymerases—for improvement of nucleic acid synthesis and amplification in vitro

摘要

A purified thermostable enzyme is derived form the thermophilic archaebacterium Archaeoglobus fulgidus. The enzyme can be native or recombinant, is stable under PCR conditions and exhibits double strand specific exonuclease activity. It is a 3′-5′ exonuclease and cleaves to produce 5′-mononucleotides. Thermostable exonucleases are useful in many recombinant DNA techniques, in combination with a thermostable DNA polymerase like Taq especially for nucleic acid amplification by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).