Muse, Muses, Of Song. Muse with barbiton, Paestan red-figure lekanis C4th B.C., MusÃ©e du Louvre. THE MOUSAI (Muses) were the goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets. They were also goddesses of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass.
Taq' s optimum temperature for activity is 75â80Â°C, with a half-life of greater than 2 hours at 92.5Â°C, 40 minutes at 95Â°C and 9 minutes at 97.5Â°C, and can replicate a 1000 base pair strand of DNA in less than 10 seconds at 72Â°C.ne of Taq' s drawbacks is its lack of 3' to 5' exonuclease proofreading activity resulting in relatively low replication fidelity.
Such is the history of Taq DNA polymerase. The original report of this enzyme, purified from the hot springs bacterium Thermus aquaticus, was published in 1976. Roughly 10 years later, the polymerase chain reaction was developed and shortly thereafter Taq became a household word in molecular biology circles.Currently, the world market for Taq polymerase is in the hundreds of millions of dollars each year.s would be expected from first principles, The total error rate of Taq polymerase has been variously reported between 1 x 10 -4 to 2 x 10 -5 errors per base pair. Pfu polymerase appears to have the lowest error rate at roughly 1.5 x 10 -6 error per base pair, and Vent is probably intermediate between Taq and Pfu.