# US 8,541,218 B2 · High fidelity thermostable ligase and uses thereof

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- Number: US 8,541,218 B2
- Document ID: US8541218B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/167,048
- Filed: 2005-06-24
- Published: 2005-12-01
- Granted: 2013-09-24
- Earliest claimed: 1998-10-30
- Assignees: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
- Applicants: Francis Barany; Weiguo Cao; Jie Tong
- Inventors: Francis Barany; Weiguo Cao; Jie Tong
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8541218B2

## CPC

- C12N 9/93: {Ligases (6)}
- C12N: MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q1/00)

## Abstract

The present invention is directed to a mutant thermostable ligase having substantially higher fidelity than either T4 ligase or Thermus thermophilus ligase. The ligase of the present invention is a mutant of a wild-type thermostable ligase having a histidine adjacent a KXDG motif, where the mutant thermostable ligase has a mutation in its amino sequence where the histidine adjacent the KXDG motif in the wild-type thermostable ligase is replaced with an arginine, and wherein X is any amino acid. The DNA molecule encoding this enzyme as well as expression systems and host cells containing it are also disclosed. The thermostable ligase of the present invention is useful in carrying out a ligase detection reaction process and a ligase chain reaction process.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An isolated thermostable ligase, wherein the ligase is a mutant of a wild-type thermostable ligase, said wild-type thermostable ligase having a histidine adjacent to a KVDG motif, wherein the mutant thermostable ligase has a histidine to arginine mutation in its amino acid sequence at the histidine adjacent to the KVDG motif in the wild-type thermostable ligase, wherein the wild-type DNA ligase comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 25.