Abstract:
A DNA polymerase (Neq DNA polymerase) derived from Nanoarchaeum equitans is divided into a Neq DNA polymerase large fragment (NeqL) and a NeqDNA polymerase small fragment (NeqS), and the fragments have intein respectively. The present invention connects inteins of the NeqL fragment and the NeqS fragment into one and provides a Neq hot-start (HS) DNA polymerase in a form of a precursor of the Neq DNA polymerase. The Neq HS DNA polymerase has an advantage of reducing inconvenience of being used for hot-start PCR by an intein trans splicing by purifying the existing NeqL fragment and NeqS fragment respectively. Especially, six histidine (His-tag) sequence is inserted in the level of gene between the intein of the NeqL fragment and the intein of NeqS fragment to significantly improve the purifying method. Additionally, as a result of an effort for increasing PCR efficiency of Neq HS DNA polymerase, mutation is induced on a specific part of Neq HS DNA polymerase genes to select Neq HS mutant polymerases (M1, M2, and M3) having significantly improved PCR amplification rate and amplification amount.