icon2Marine Enzymes
The marine enzyme unit, organised in the subsidiary ArcticZymes AS, is focused on developing cold adapted enzymes for use in various RNA and DNA processes. All current products originates from fish or shrimps living in the cold seawaters in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Norway and Svalbard. The preconditions for survival in these waters are “life systems” supporting life at very low temperatures.
The combination of low temperature activity and the unique heat-inactivation possibility integrates extremely well with current molecular biology protocols and offers substantial quality – and work-process advantages.ArcticZymes has the following products on the market:
•Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase (SAP) has become one of today’s most-selling DNA modifying enzymes due to the added convenience through a complete heat inactivation.
•Cod Uracil-DNA Glycosylase (Cod UNG) from Atlantic cod is the only commercially available UNG enzyme that is completely and irreversibly inactivated by moderate heat treatment.
•Nucleases originating from cold adapted marine organisms:
dsDNase and HL-dsDNase are double-strand DNA specific and heat-labile DNases which make them especially useful in RNA or double-strand DNA clean-up applications.
SAN is active at low temperatures and in high concentrations of salt, which makes it useful for applications where nucleic acids must be removed from samples such as cell lysates or general purification processes.
•Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase (SAP) has become one of today’s most-selling DNA modifying enzymes due to the added convenience through a complete heat inactivation.
•Cod Uracil-DNA Glycosylase (Cod UNG) from Atlantic cod is the only commercially available UNG enzyme that is completely and irreversibly inactivated by moderate heat treatment.
•Nucleases originating from cold adapted marine organisms:
dsDNase and HL-dsDNase are double-strand DNA specific and heat-labile DNases which make them especially useful in RNA or double-strand DNA clean-up applications.
SAN is active at low temperatures and in high concentrations of salt, which makes it useful for applications where nucleic acids must be removed from samples such as cell lysates or general purification processes.
