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PFU
(redirected from Pyrococcus furiosus)

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PFUPlaque Forming Unit
PFUPyrococcus Furiosus
PFUProgrammable Function Unit
PFUPhysical Fitness Uniform
PFUParticle Flux Unit
PFUPlan de Formation de l'Unité (French: Training Plan of Unity)
PFUProto-Fenno-Ugric (linguistics)
PFUPlan For Use
PFUParts Followup
PFUProto-Flight Unit
PFUProbability of Frame Unavailability
PFUPretty Fouled Up (polite form)
PFUPosition Fix Update (GPS)
PFUPaging File Utilization (Norton System Doctor Win2000)
PFUPressens Faglige Utvalg (Norwegian: Press Complaints Commission)


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Scientists identified a thermostable hydrolizing enzyme, b-glycosidase, from genetically modified hyperthermophilic Archea Sulfolobus solfataricus and Pyrococcus furiosus that grew in continuous fermentors.
However, Taq was eventually found to be susceptible to errors in complementary base pairing during primer extension (see section on PCR protocol); and although the Taq polymerase is still used, many investigators currently prefer to use the DNA polymeruse cloned from Pyrococcus furiosus (Pfu), an organism that grows optimally in geothermal marine sediments at 100 [degrees] C.
In one of the studies, an international team of researchers analyzed an enzyme from Pyrococcus furiosus, an archaebacterium that thrives in boiling- hot, oxygen-poor conditions (SN: 3/11/95, p.
 
 
 
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