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The reliance upon Taq polymerase as a catalyst for the PCR replication process has been highlighted during the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. Shortages of the necessary enzyme have impaired the ability of countries worldwide to produce test kits for the virus. Without Taq polymerase, the disease detection process is much slower and tedious. [25]
In 1989, the Taq polymerase gene was cloned and the Taq polymerase was produced in Escherichia coli as a recombinant protein. [73] [72] DNA of up to 35,000 basepairs was synthesized by Wayne M. Barnes by using different mixtures of A and B type polymerases, [36] [72] thereby creating the long-range PCR.
A strip of eight PCR tubes, each containing a 100 μL reaction mixture Placing a strip of eight PCR tubes into a thermal cycler. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample rapidly, allowing scientists to amplify a very small sample of DNA (or a part of it) sufficiently to enable detailed study.
PCR uses one of the heat resistant enzymes found in the thermophile T. aquaticus to rapidly and efficiently make copies of specific strands of DNA. The small sample of the target DNA is added to a test tube along with DNA primers, DNA nucleotides, Taq polymerase, and a buffer solution. [8]
Thermus aquaticus is a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures, one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcota phylum. It is the source of the heat-resistant enzyme Taq DNA polymerase, one of the most important enzymes in molecular biology because of its use in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification technique.
These Taq DNA polymerase are precomplexed with a mixture of monoclonal antibodies specific to Taq DNA polymerase. [13] Wax beads: A physical barrier is created between Taq DNA polymerase and the remainder of the PCR components by the wax beads which are temperature dependent.
Taq polymerase has a nontemplate-dependent terminal transferase activity that adds a single deoxyadenosine (A) to the 3'-end of the PCR products. This characteristic is exploited in "sticky end" TOPO TA cloning. [1] For "blunt end" TOPO cloning, the recipient vector does not have overhangs and blunt-ended DNA fragments can be cloned.
TaqMan probes are hydrolysis probes that are designed to increase the specificity of quantitative PCR.The method was first reported in 1991 by researcher Kary Mullis at Cetus Corporation, [1] and the technology was subsequently developed by Hoffmann-La Roche for diagnostic assays and by Applied Biosystems (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) for research applications.