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Thermus acquaticus

One of the most important of these extremophiles is a bacterium (Thermus acquaticus) discovered in 1965 in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring where the temperature is a constant 73 °C (Centigrade or Celsius) or 163 °F (Fahrenheit). About twenty years... [Pg.154]

The most widely used DNA polymerase in PCR is from Thermus acquaticus, the Taq polymerase. This enzyme has an optimal temperature for polymerization in the range of 70 to 75°C. It extends DNA chains at a rate of about 2 kb per minute. It is fairly resistant to the continual cycles of heating and cooling required for PCR. The half-life for thermal denaturation of Taq polymerase is 1.6h at 95°C. When very high denaturation temperatures are needed, as in the PCR amplification of very G+C-rich DNA, more thermal-stable polymerase such as the enzyme from Thermococcus litoralis with a half-life of 1.8h at 100°C or the enzyme from Pyrococcus furiosis with a half-life of 8 h at 100°C, can be employed. However, these enzymes are not as processive as Taq polymerase, which makes it more difficult to amplify long templates. [Pg.497]

In the 1960 s, Thomas Brock found Thermus acquaticus, an archaea organism, in the hot springs at Yellowstone National Park. The microbe s polymerase enzyme can duplicate DNA at high temperatures and has been used in genetic studies. [Pg.701]


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