purification of e coli poly a polymerase
Received July 13, 1990. DNA polymerase from Thermus aquaticus has be-. come a common reagent in molecular biology because of. its utility in DNA amplification and DNA sequencing. protocols. A simplified method is described here for iso-. lating the recombinant Taq enzyme after overproduc-. tion in Escherichia coli. Purification requires 8 to 10 h. and entails heat treating and clearing the E. coli lysate, followed by precipitation of the enzyme with polyethy-.