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Catalog # Size Concentration Price Qty  
R0547L 1,250 units 10,000 units/ml $244.00
R0547S 250 units 10,000 units/ml $61.00
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Recognition Site:

TTAATTAA

isoschizomers | compatible ends | single letter code

Source:
A P. alcaligenes strain that carries the PacI gene from Pseudomonas alcaligenes (C. Polisson).

Reagents Supplied:
NEBuffer 1
BSA


Enzyme Properties


Activity in NEBuffers:
NEBuffer 1:100%
NEBuffer 2:75%
NEBuffer 3:10%
NEBuffer 4:100%

When using a buffer other than the optimal (supplied) NEBuffer, it may be necessary to add more enzyme to achieve complete digestion.

Methylation Sensitivity:
dam methylation: Not sensitive
dcm methylation: Not sensitive
CpG methylation: Not sensitive

Heat Inactivation:
65°C for 20 minutes

Survival in a Reaction:
Minimum units to digest 1 µg of substrate DNA in 16 hours: 0.13 unit(s)


Reaction & Storage Conditions


Reaction Conditions:
1X NEBuffer 1
Supplemented with 100 μg/ml Bovine Serum Albumin
Incubate at 37°C.

1X NEBuffer 1:
10 mM Bis-Tris-Propane-HCl
10 mM MgCl2
1 mM Dithiothreitol
pH 7.0 @ 25°C

Unit Definition:
One unit is defined as the amount of enzyme required to digest 1 µg of pNEB193 DNA in 1 hour at 37°C in a total reaction volume of 50 µl.

Concentration:
10,000 units/ml

Unit Assay Substrate:
pNEB193 DNA

Storage Conditions:
10 mM KPO4
200 mM NaCl
1 mM Dithiothreitol
0.1 mM EDTA
200 µg/ml BSA
50% Glycerol
pH 7.3 @ 25°C

Storage Temperature:
-20°C

Diluent Compatibility:
Diluent A


Notes


General notes:
  1. PacI is an octanucleotide-recognizing restriction endonuclease.
    pNEB193, a cloning vector which contains single sites for NEB's
    8-base cutters AscI, PacI and PmeI.

FAQs


  1. How can the efficieny of PacI be increased?
  2. Are there any common problems encountered when using PacI?
  3. Is PacI inhibited by salt?
  4. What is the activity of PacI at 25°C?

Quality Control for Current Lot


Quality control values for a specific lot can be found on the datacard which accompanies each product.

Ligation and Re-cutting:
After a 20-fold overdigestion with PacI, approximately 75% of the DNA fragments can be ligated with T4 DNA Ligase (at a 5' termini concentration of 1-2 μM) at 16ºC. Of these ligated fragments, > 95% can be recut with PacI.


16-Hour Incubation:
A 50 μl reaction containing 1 μg of DNA and 75 units of PacI incubated for 16 hours at 37ºC resulted in a DNA pattern free of detectable nuclease degradation as determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.

Exonuclease Activity:
Incubation of a 50 μl reaction containing 100 units of PacI with 1 μg of a mixture of single and double-stranded [3H] E. coli DNA (205 cpm/μg) for 4 hours at 37ºC released < 0.1% of the total radioactivity.

Endonuclease Activity:
Incubation of a 50 μl reaction containing 50 units of PacI with 1 μg of ΦX174 RF I DNA for 4 hours at 37ºC resulted in < 10% conversion to RFII as determined by agarose gel electrophoresis.

Blue/White Screening Assay:
An appropriate vector is digested at a unique site within the lacZα gene with a 10-fold excess of enzyme. The vector DNA is then ligated, transformed, and plated onto Xgal/IPTG/Amp plates. Successful expression of β-galactosidase is a function of how intact its gene remains after cloning, an intact gene gives rise to a blue colony, removal of even a single base gives rise to a white colony. Enzyme preparations must produce fewer than 3% white colonies to be Blue/White certified.


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