Vent DNA polymerase

Vent polymerase is a thermostable archean DNA polymerase used for the polymerase chain reaction. It was isolated from the thermophile Thermococcus litoralis.^[1]

References[]

^ Vigneault F, Drouin R (2005). "Optimal conditions and specific characteristics of Vent exo- DNA polymerase in ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction protocols". Biochem Cell Biol. 83 (2): 147–65. doi:10.1139/o04-134. PMID 15864324.

v t Polymerase chain reaction techniques
Procedure	Initialization Cycle Denaturation Annealing Elongation Final elongation Final hold
Polymerase	Klenow T4 and T7 Taq Tth Pfu Vent Pwo Tli Tfu
Optimization ＆ variants	Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) Inverse polymerase chain reaction (inverse PCR) Nested polymerase chain reaction (nested PCR) Touchdown polymerase chain reaction Hot start PCR Overlap extension polymerase chain reaction (OE-PCR) Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (multiplex PCR) Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) Co-amplification at lower denaturation temperature PCR (COLD-PCR) Random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
History ＆ people	Kary Mullis Kjell Kleppe