A New Procedure for the Simultaneous Large‐Scale Purification of Bacteriophage‐T4‐Induced Polynucleotide Kinase, DNA Ligase, RNA Ligase and DNA Polymerase
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 114 (2), 247-254
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1981.tb05143.x
Abstract
A procedure for simultaneous large-scale purification of the bacteriophage-T4-induced polynucleotide kinase (EC 2.7.1.78), DNA ligase (EC 6.5.1.1) RNA ligase (EC 6.5.1.3) and DNA polymerase (EC 2.7.7.7) was developed. The method involves bacterial cell disruption by sonication, fractionation of cell extract with polymin P, salt elution from the polymin pellets, ammonium sulfate precipitation and subsequent chromatography purification of the enzymes. To enrich the enzyme content highly in the initial source non-permissive Escherichia coli B-23 cells infected with T4 amN82 phage were used. The procedure described is rapid, reproducible, high in yield and able to handle preparations using from l-200 g cell paste. It can be easily scaled up. The method results in large amounts of the enzymes with very high specific activities good stability and essentially lacking exonuclease and endonuclease contamination. The final enzyme preparations were efficiently used in DNA sequencing and in multiple experiments on construction of various recombinant DNA for cloning and expression in vivo.This publication has 41 references indexed in Scilit:
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