For high speed and high performance PCR. Manufactured and quality-controlled at New England Biolabs, Thermo Scientific™ Phusion™ High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase offers both high fidelity and robust performance.
50X higher fidelity than Taq
Robust reactions - maximal success with minimal optimization
Offered with multiple buffers for customized reaction setup for different DNA templates
Product Information
High-Fidelity DNA Polymerases are important for applications in which the DNA sequence needs to be correct after amplification. Its unique structure, a novel Pyrococcus-like enzyme fused with a processivity-enhancing domain, increases fidelity and speed. Phusion DNA Polymerase is an ideal choice for cloning and can be used for long or difficult amplicons. With an error rate > 50-fold lower than that of Taq DNA Polymerase and 6-fold lower than that of Pyrococcus furiosus DNA Polymerase (1), Phusion is one of the most accurate thermostable polymerases available. Phusion DNA Polymerase possesses 5´→ 3´ polymerase activity, 3´→ 5´ exonuclease activity and will generate blunt-ended products.
Phusion DNA Polymerase is supplied with standard 5X Phusion HF Buffer, as well as 5X Phusion GC Buffer, which can be used for complex or GC-rich templates. Each of these buffers contains MgCl2 (1.5 mM at the final [1X] reaction concentration). Reactions can also be optimized using the provided DMSO or MgCl2 solutions.
Figure 1: Fidelity of DNA polymerases Relative to Taq
Fidelity assays were performed using a lacI-based method modified from Frey & Suppman, 1995.
Figure 2: Phusion DNA Polymerase generates robust amplification even with short extension times
A 1.2 kb C. elegans genomic amplicon was analyzed using different polymerases. Reactions were set up in duplicate and visualized by microfluidic LabChip analysis. All reactions were conducted according to manufacturer’s instructions using 30 cycles and extension times of either 30 seconds or 2 minutes as indicated.
Product Source
An E. coli strain that carries the Phusion DNA Polymerase gene.
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Phusion™ DNA Polymerase was developed by Finnzymes Oy, now a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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