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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2001
Akzo Nobel N.V., , NL;
Abstract
The present application relates to mutated RNA polymerases from bacteriophages that have increased stability, for example under high temperature conditions. One example of bacteriophage encoded RNA polymerase is the T7 RNA polymerase. T7 is a bacteriophage capable of infecting cells. Examples of other infecting T7-like bacteriophages are T3, øI, øII, W31, H, Y, A1, croC21, C22 and C23. An example of a infecting bacteriophage is SP6. The present invention is concerned with the RNA polymerases of T7-like bacteriophages that have been mutated. Due to these mutations the RNAP's have an increased stability. Preferred mutated RNA polymerases according to the invention are mutant RNA polymerases from T7 or SP3 bacteriophages. Due to the high homology between these enzymes, mutations in the T7 gene 1 sequence are likely to have the same effect in the corresponding gene sequence of the T3 bacteriophage. An especially preferred embodiment of the present invention is a T7 RNA polymerase with a serine to proline amino acid change in the protein at position 633 of the amino acid sequence. Since there is 80% homology between the T7 RNA polymerase and the T3 RNA polymerase the same effects of the 633 serine→proline mutation in the T7 gene may be expected for a 634 serine→proline amino acid mutation in the T3 RNA polymerase.