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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2010
Holly Hogrefe, San Diego, CA (US);
Michelle Cayouette, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey Fox, Escondito, CA (US);
Connie J. Hansen, San Diego, CA (US);
Jennifer Lapira, San Diego, CA (US);
Bahram Arezi, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Nancy Mckinney, San Diego, CA (US);
Holly Hogrefe, San Diego, CA (US);
Michelle Cayouette, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey Fox, Escondito, CA (US);
Connie J. Hansen, San Diego, CA (US);
Jennifer Lapira, San Diego, CA (US);
Bahram Arezi, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Nancy McKinney, San Diego, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies Inc., Loveland, CO (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides mutants of DNA polymerases having an increased rate of incorporation of nucleotides into nucleic acids undergoing polymerization and having an enhanced resistance to inhibitors of DNA polymerase activity. The mutant polymerases are well suited for fast PCR applications, for PCR amplification of targets in samples that contain inhibitors of wild-type polymerases, and for fast PCR amplification of samples containing DNA polymerase inhibitors. In exemplary embodiments, the mutants are mutants of Taq DNA polymerase.