| For your convenience, New England Biolabs offers a simple 4 buffer system. A color-coded 10X NEBuffer is supplied with every restriction endonuclease, ensuring 100% activity. On November 1, 2008, NEB changed the recommended buffer for 54 restriction enzymes to NEBuffer 4. With this change, NEB now provides over 160 restriction enzymes in a single buffer. This results in increased efficiency, flexibility and ease of use especially when performing double digests. To help select the best conditions for double digests, this chart shows the optimal (supplied) NEBuffer and approximate activity in the four standard NEBuffers and NEBuffer EcoRI for each enzyme. If BSA is supplied with an enzyme, it is included in all NEBuffer activity reactions. In addition, the table also shows recommended reaction temperature, heat inactivation temperature, recommended diluent buffer and whether the enzyme is Time-Saver qualified (i.e., cleaves substrate in 5 minutes). Please check out other technical reference information related to restriction enzymes: Double Digestion | Heat Inactivation | Activity at 37°C | Diluent Buffers | Time-Saver Enzymes | High Fidelity (HF) Restriction Enzymes Click for the Chart Legend, Icon Description A | B | C | D | E | F | H | I | K | M | N | P | R | S | T | X | Z | Note: 1. SspI Unique Buffer has the same composition as EcoRI Unique Buffer. 2. The values listed in this table are approximate. They were obtained using each enzyme's specific unit assay substrate DNA. |