Thermolabile Proteinase K is an engineered, subtilisin-related serine protease that will hydrolyze a variety of peptide bonds. It preferentially cleaves the peptide bond at the carboxyl side of aliphatic or aromatic amino acid residues. However; the specificity of Thermolabile Proteinase K can be broad.Thermolabile Proteinase K (TLPK) can be completely inactivated by incubation at 55°C for 10 minutes, which allows for subsequent enzymatic steps in the same reaction vessel. Figure 1 shows that the activity of restriction endonucleases, including heat-stable endonucleases, can be completely abolished using TLPK.
Figure 1:Thermolabile Proteinase K completely degrades restriction enzyme activityLane L: 1 kb DNA Ladder (NEB #N3232); Lane 1: λ DNA incubated for 1 hour at 37°C; Lane 2: λ DNA incubated with PvuII-HF or PstI-HF for 1 hour at 37°C; Lane 3: λ DNA incubated with PvuII-HF or PstI-HF which had been treated with 1 μL Thermolabile Proteinase K (TLPK) for 10 minutes at 37 °C; Lane 4: λ DNA incubated first with TLPK treated PvuII-HF or PstI-HF followed by incubation at 55 °C for 10 minutes to inactivate the TLPK, followed by treatment with PvuII-HF or PstI-HF for 1 hour at 37°C. Results indicate that Thermolabile Proteinase K completely degrades restriction enzyme activity, allowing for subsequent enzymatic steps in the same reaction vessel.
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Cloned fromEngyodontium album (formerly Tritirachium album), mutagenized to increase thermolability of the enzyme and expressed inK. lactis.
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