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T4 DNA Ligase

Catalog # Concentration Size List Price Quantity Your Price
M0202L 400000 units/ml 100000 units $410.00
$369.00
M0202M 2000000 units/ml 100000 units $410.00
$369.00
M0202S 400000 units/ml 20000 units $104.00
$93.60
M0202T 2000000 units/ml 20000 units $104.00
$93.60
Catalog # Size List Price Your Price
M0202L 100000 units $410.00
$369.00
M0202M 100000 units $410.00
$369.00
M0202S 20000 units $104.00
$93.60
M0202T 20000 units $104.00
$93.60
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T4 DNA Ligase will ligate these substrates:

dsDNA




Nicked DNA/RNA





 

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For details on NEB's quality controls for DNA ligases, visit our Ligase Quality page.

T4 DNA Ligase Competitor Study - Nuclease Contamination
T4 DNA Ligase Competitor Study- Nuclease Contamination
T4 DNA Ligase from multiple suppliers was tested in reactions containing a fluorescent labeled single stranded, double stranded blunt, 3’overhang or 5’ overhang containing oligonucleotides. The percent degradation by contaminating nucleases is determined by capillary electrophoresis and peak analysis. The resolution is at the single nucleotide level.
Highlights
  • Isolated from a recombinant source
  • Supplied with 10X Reaction Buffer
Product Source
An E. coli strain that carries the cloned T4 DNA Ligase gene.
Reagents Supplied

The following reagents are supplied with this product:

NEB # Component Name Component # Stored at (°C) Amount Concentration
  T4 DNA Ligase M0202SVIAL -20 1 x 0.05 ml 400,000 units/ml
  T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer B0202SVIAL -20 1 x 1 ml 10 X
  T4 DNA Ligase M0202TVIAL -20 1 x 0.01 ml 2,000,000 units/ml
  T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer B0202SVIAL -20 1 x 1 ml 10 X
  T4 DNA Ligase M0202LVIAL -20 1 x 0.25 ml 400,000 units/ml
  T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer B0202SVIAL -20 1 x 1 ml 10 X
  T4 DNA Ligase M0202MVIAL -20 1 x 0.05 ml 2,000,000 units/ml
  T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer B0202SVIAL -20 1 x 1 ml 10 X
Application Features
  • Cloning of restriction fragments
  • Joining linkers and adapters to blunt-ended DNA

Properties & Usage

Unit Definition

One unit is defined as the amount of enzyme required to give 50% ligation of HindIII fragments of λ DNA (5´ DNA termini concentration of 0.12 µM, 300- µg/ml) in a total reaction volume of 20 μl in 30 minutes at 16°C in 1X T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer.

Concentration:
400,000 cohesive end units/ml and 2,000,000 cohesive end units/ml

Reaction Conditions

1X T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer
Incubate at 16°C

1X T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer
50 mM Tris-HCl
10 mM MgCl2
1 mM ATP
10 mM DTT
(pH 7.5 @ 25°C)

Storage Buffer

10 mM Tris-HCl
50 mM KCl
1 mM DTT
0.1 mM EDTA
50% Glycerol
pH 7.4 @ 25°C

Heat Inactivation

65°C for 10 minutes

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Notes
  • ATP is an essential cofactor for the reaction. This contrasts with E. coli DNA ligase which requires NAD.
  • To dilute T4 DNA Ligase that will subsequently be stored at -20°C, 50% glycerol storage buffer (Diluent Buffer A (with rAlbumin), NEB #B8532S) should be used; to dilute for immediate use, 1X T4 DNA Ligase Reaction Buffer can be used.
  • Ligation can also be performed in any of the four restriction endonuclease NEBuffers or in T4 Polynucleotide Kinase Buffer if they are supplemented with 1 mM ATP.
  • Room Temperature Ligation
    For convenience, ligations may be done at room temperature (20-25°C). For cohesive (sticky) ends, use 1 µl of T4 DNA Ligase in a 20 µl reaction for 10 minutes. For blunt ends, use 1 µl of T4 DNA Ligase in a 20 µl reaction for 2 hours or 1 µl high concentration T4 DNA Ligase for 10 minutes. Alternatively, NEB's Quick Ligation Kit (#M2200S) [30 reactions] or (#M2200L) [150 reactions]) is uniquely formulated to ligate both blunt and cohesive (sticky) ends in 5 minutes at room temperature.
References
  • Engler, M.J. and Richardson, C.C. (1982). P.D. Boyer(Ed.), 5, 3. San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Remaut, E., Tsao, H. and Fiers, W. (1983). Gene. 22, 103-113.
  • Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F. and Maniatis, T. (1989). Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, (2nd Ed.). 1.53-1.73.
Citations
Additional Citations
  • Sexton T, Kurukuti S, Mitchell JA, Umlauf D, Nagano T, Fraser P (2012) Sensitive detection of chromatin coassociations using enhanced chromosome conformation capture on chip Nat Protoc 7(7), 1335-50.PubMedID: 22722369, DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.071
Publications
  • Thuronyi, B.W., Koblan, L.W., Levy, J.M. et al (2019). Continuous evolution of base editors with expanded target compatibility and improved activity Nat Biotechnol. 37, 1070-1079.PubMedID: 31332326, DOI: 10.1038/s41587-019-0193-0
Quality Control Assay
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Specifications
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Certificate of Analysis
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Safety Data Sheets
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