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Polymerase to the people.
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The DIY bio community has developed a number of open source and relatively inexpensive designs for laboratory equipment necessary for synthetic biology lab work, but the prices of commercial DNA polymerases essential for PCR remain a significant financial hurdle for community labs operating on shoestring budgetsFounding members of the Baltimore Underground Science Space  (BUGSS) began to address this problem in the 2010 iGEM competition, developing a Biobrick for Taq polymerase synthesisThe BUGSS team has built on this earlier work by developing a new Biobrick for Pfu DNA polymerase, which offers a replication error rate approximately 6 fold lower than that of Taq polymerase.  The development of this Biobrick began with the amplification and cloning of the pol gene for Pfu DNA polymerase from contaminant DNA in a commercial stock enzymeSilent single bp substitutions were needed to remove two restriction sites incompatible with Biobrick Assembly Standard 10, and finally restriction sites SpeI and PstI were added at the 3’ end and EcoRI and XbaI at the 5’ end to fit the standard.  The team is now working to develop a kit for easy purification of Pfu polymerase with the goal of reducing the cost of this essential tool.
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Polymerase to the people. The DIY bio community has developed a number of open source and relatively inexpensive designs for laboratory equipment necessary for synthetic biology lab work, but the prices of commercial DNA polymerases essential for PCR remain a significant financial hurdle for community labs operating on shoestring budgets. Founding members of the Baltimore Underground Science Space (BUGSS) began to address this problem in the 2010 iGEM competition, developing a Biobrick for Taq polymerase synthesis. The BUGSS team has built on this earlier work by developing a new Biobrick for Pfu DNA polymerase, which offers a replication error rate approximately 6 fold lower than that of Taq polymerase. The development of this Biobrick began with the amplification and cloning of the pol gene for Pfu DNA polymerase from contaminant DNA in a commercial stock enzyme. Silent single bp substitutions were needed to remove two restriction sites incompatible with Biobrick Assembly Standard 10, and finally restriction sites SpeI and PstI were added at the 3’ end and EcoRI and XbaI at the 5’ end to fit the standard. The team is now working to develop a kit for easy purification of Pfu polymerase with the goal of reducing the cost of this essential tool.


References

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