Sau 3AI
date: label: date made
content: 1985-09
name: label: user
content: Genentech, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This silver metal canister once contained Sau 3AI, an enzyme commonly used in molecular biology. Sau 3AI belongs to a class of enzymes known as restriction enzymes, which are useful for their ability to cleave DNA only at locations containing specific sequences of nucleotides, the small chemical units which make up the longer DNA molecule. Sau 3AI recognizes the sequence GATC and will cut before the G.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This particular canister of Sau 3AI was used to create recombinant DNA molecules at Genentech, a biotechnology company, in the early 1980s.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Source:
label: Description (Brief)
content: GeneON, “Sau3AI.” http://www.taq-dna.com/sau3ai-_91.html
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: West Germany
label: used
content: United States: California, South San Francisco
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Genentech
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0198.28
label: accession number
content: 2012.0198
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0198.28
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sau 3AI
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Solution in Tris-HCl, 20 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: NaCl, 50 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: EDTA, 0.1 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: Beta-mercaptoethanol, 5 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glycerol, 50% (v/v) (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Sau 3AI (overall active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 3.175 cm