Vent DNA polymerase

DNA polymerase

Identifiers

Organism

Thermococcus litorali

Symbol

pol

UniProt

P30317

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Vent polymerase is a archean thermostable 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.

Transferases: phosphorus-containing groups (EC 2.7)

2.7.1-2.7.4:
phosphotransferase/kinase
(PO₄)

2.7.1: OH acceptor	Hexo- Gluco- Fructo- Hepatic Galacto- Phosphofructo- 1 Liver Muscle Platelet 2 Riboflavin Shikimate Thymidine ADP-thymidine NAD⁺ Glycerol Pantothenate Mevalonate Pyruvate Deoxycytidine PFP Diacylglycerol Phosphoinositide 3 Class I PI 3 Class II PI 3 Sphingosine Glucose-1,6-bisphosphate synthase
2.7.2: COOH acceptor	Phosphoglycerate Aspartate kinase
2.7.3: N acceptor	Creatine
2.7.4: PO₄ acceptor	Phosphomevalonate Adenylate Nucleoside-diphosphate Uridylate Guanylate Thiamine-diphosphate

2.7.6: diphosphotransferase
(P₂O₇)

2.7.7: nucleotidyltransferase
(PO₄-nucleoside)

Polymerase

DNA polymerase	DNA-directed DNA polymerase I/A γ θ ν T7 Taq II/B α δ ε ζ Pfu III/C IV/X β λ μ TDT V/Y η ι κ RNA-directed DNA polymerase Reverse transcriptase Telomerase
RNA polymerase	Template-directed RNA polymerase I II III IV V ssRNAP POLRMT Primase 1 2 PrimPol RNA-dependent RNA polymerase Polyadenylation PAP PNPase

Phosphorolytic
3' to 5' exoribonuclease

Nucleotidyltransferase

Guanylyltransferase

mRNA capping enzyme

Other

2.7.8: miscellaneous

Phosphatidyltransferases	CDP-diacylglycerol—glycerol-3-phosphate 3-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—serine O-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—inositol 3-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—choline O-phosphatidyltransferase
Glycosyl-1-phosphotransferase	N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase

2.7.10-2.7.13: protein kinase
(PO₄; protein acceptor)

2.7.10: protein-tyrosine	see tyrosine kinases
2.7.11: protein-serine/threonine	see serine/threonine-specific protein kinases
2.7.12: protein-dual-specificity	see serine/threonine-specific protein kinases
2.7.13: protein-histidine	Protein-histidine pros-kinase Protein-histidine tele-kinase Histidine kinase

v t e 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 and 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 and people	Kary Mullis Kjell Kleppe Alice Chien