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. 2020 Mar 17;52:e2020-16. doi: 10.21307/jofnem-2020-016

Table 2.

PCR components and setup.

Platinum™ Taq (10 units/μl) Taq2000™ (5 units/μl) DreamTaq™ (5 units/μl) TaKaRa Ex Taq™ (5 units/μl) or combined with DreamTaq™ (5 units/μl) PicoMaxx™ System (5 units/μl) or combined with DreamTaq™ (5 units/μl) pfu DNA polymerase (2.5 units/μl) or combined with DreamTaq™ (5 units/μl) Herculase® II Fusion DNA polymerase Phusion™ High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase (2 units/μl) Pwo DNA polymerase (5 units/μl) or combined with DreamTaq™ (5 units/μl)
Water (μl) Mixture A: 7.6
Water (μl) 15.375 16 16.375/16.25 15.875 or 15.75 17.3 or 17.175 17.05/17.55 or 16.925/17.425 16 14.5 Mixture B: 9.875 (or 9.75)
10 or 5x proprietary buffer (μl) 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 5 5 Mixture A: 2.5
50 mM MgCl2 (μl) 1 0.25
100 mM dNTP (25 mM each) (μl) 0.2 0.2 0.25 Mixture B: 0.4
10 mM dNTP (2.5 mM each) (μl) 2 0.5
8 mM dNTP (2 mM each) (μl) 2.5 2.5 2.5
10 μm Forward primer (μl) 0.75 0.75 0.75 1.25 1.25 1.25 0.625 1.25 Mixture B: 1.25
10 μm Reverse primer (μl) 0.75 0.75 0.75 1.25 1.25 1.25 0.625 1.25 Mixture B: 1.25
DMSO 0.25
DNA template (μl) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Mixture B: 2
Proprietary DNA polymerase(s) (μl) 0.125 0.25 0.125/0.25 0.125 or plus DreamTaq™: 0.125 0.5 or plus DreamTaq™: 0.125 0.75/0.25 or plus DreamTaq™: 0.125 0.5 0.25 Mixture A: 0.125 or plus DreamTaq™: 0.125
Total reaction volume (μl) 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 12.5 each mixture