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Produce PCR amplicons that are easily cloned with high efficiency

pfuturbo DNA Polymerase:
A High-Performance, High-Fidelity Enzyme Ideal for PCR Cloning

Jeff Braman Holly Hogrefe
Stratagene

A chloramphenicol resistance (CAM) gene generated from pfuturbo DNA polymerase *^, was cloned into the PCR-Script vector with greater than 85% efficiency. PfuTurbo DNA polymerase not only creates high-fidelity products, it also generates blunt-end PCR products, which eliminates the need for polishing. PfuTurbo DNA polymerase enhances PCR product yield without altering the fidelity of DNA replication, making it the enzyme of choice for reliable PCR product amplification and subsequent cloning.

Stratagene recently introduced PfuTurbo DNA polymerase,¹ a special formulation of cloned Pfu DNA polymerase and a novel thermostable factor** that enhances PCR product yield without altering the fidelity of DNA replication. PfuTurbo DNA polymerase can be used to amplify complex genomic DNA targets up to 10 kb in length and vector targets up to 15 kb in length. It also amplifies complex targets in higher yield than Taq DNA polymerase or other commercially available proofreading PCR enzymes. Because Pfu DNA polymerase is known to generate blunt-end amplicons that can be easily cloned using the PCR Script cloning kit² we assumed PfuTurbo DNA polymerase would also possess this characteristic.

Cloning blunt-end amplicons generated with enzymes such as PfuTurbo DNA polymerase is significantly more convenient than cloning amplicons produced with Taq DNA polymerase. Taq DNA polymerase creates amplicons with 3 overhangs.^3,4 These molecules are cloned with low efficiency using the TA Cloning vector,² or with high efficiency using the blunt-end PCR-Sc
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