DNA-polymerase
date: label: date made
content: 1983-08-16
name: label: user
content: Genentech, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This silver metal canister once contained DNA-polymerase, an enzyme commonly used in molecular biology. In living organisms, it plays an important role in DNA replication and repair, by helping to speed along the process of linking together nucleotide bases into the chains that make up DNA.
label: Description
content: This particular canister of DNA-polymerase was used in DNA sequencing efforts at the labs at Genentech, a biotechnology company, in the early 1980s.
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: 2012.0198.23
label: accession number
content: 2012.0198
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0198.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: DNA-polymerase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: potassium phosphate, 50 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: dithiothreitol, 0.25 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: DNA-polymerase I (large fragment, Klenow enzyme), dissolved in 50% glycerol (v/v) (overall active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 3.175 cm