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User:
Genentech, Inc.  Search this
Physical Description:
potassium phosphate, 50 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
dithiothreitol, 0.25 mmol/l (overall active ingredients)
metal (overall material)
DNA-polymerase I (large fragment, Klenow enzyme), dissolved in 50% glycerol (v/v) (overall active ingredients)
Measurements:
overall: 2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 3.175 cm
Object Name:
DNA-polymerase
Place made:
West Germany
Used:
United States: California, South San Francisco
Date made:
1983-08-16
Description (Brief):
This silver metal canister once contained DNA-polymerase, an enzyme commonly used in molecular biology. In living organisms, it plays an important role in DNA replication and repair, by helping to speed along the process of linking together nucleotide bases into the chains that make up DNA.
This particular canister of DNA-polymerase was used in DNA sequencing efforts at the labs at Genentech, a biotechnology company, in the early 1980s.
Location:
Currently not on view
Credit Line:
Gift of Genentech
ID Number:
2012.0198.23
Accession number:
2012.0198
Catalog number:
2012.0198.23
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Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
Biotechnology and Genetics
Science & Mathematics
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-a6c1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1427282