Heat Inactivated Alkaline Phosphatase - FAQs

What other enzymes besides ligase may I need to perform restriction cloning?

Dephosphorylating the vector to decrease background can be achieved with:
Heat Inactivated Alkaline Phosphatase, or Calf Intestinal Alkalline Phosphatase (available as 1 unit/µL or 20 units/µL)

If you need to create blunt phosphorylated DNA ends (“polishing” the ends), you can use:
DNA End Repair Mix or T4 DNA polymerase or Klenow Fragment (large fragment) of E. coli DNA polymerase to generate blunt ends due to their 5' to 3' DNA polymerase activity (filling-in of 5' overhangs) and 3' to 5' exonuclease activity (chewing back of 3' overhangs).